What’s stopping big tech from running their own plsfix pages like this and pocketing the money?
In practice this would be premium plans that include some form of special treatment.
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#92I had to check if it was April Fools' Day. This is one of the most disturbing posts I've seen in a while. I sincerely hope that people who profit off of this will get fired at the very least.
The concept seems like… performance art protest or something. Building a platform to bribe your way through the opaque customer non-service system of these companies is either low corruption or high art.
100% - I see lots of comments saying things like "Don't you know companies would fire you for this??" which to me sounds a little bit like "Don't you know you shouldn't eat babies??" after reading A Modest Proposal.
On the other hand, I guess life does imitate art sometimes...
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#93If this is not satire, then facebooks influence on society is already worse than i thought...
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#94On one hand: an action virtually guaranteed to get you fired. On the other: $150 I used to work at FB and they have a team that tries to catch employees selling access like this. I can’t imagine risking that for what is essentially an hours pay for most tech roles there.
See, what you need to do is get a job on that team, and sell the ability to have the team overlook the persons case... call it plsfixmyfix.com
Then, the manager of that team has their startup: plsfixmyfixer.com
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#95If any FAANG employee falls for this, it's a good way for the company to weed them out, and terminate them for-cause. You might run this as a honeypot for corrupt, dumb employees. Make it more easily accessible than the outreaches from criminal enterprises.
I really hate to phrase it like this, but i don't see another way...
if a FAANG employee would be considered dumb when signing up for this... how can this not have crossed OPs mind when spending his/her time building this platform (as an ex-FAANG)?
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#96What’s stopping big tech from running their own plsfix pages like this and pocketing the money? In practice this would be premium plans that include some form of special treatment.
Premium for the 'no ads' tier, of course.
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#97This is no different than corruption .. caused by terrible design from the likes of shitter etc.. I'm sure it will be popular. I fucking hate shitter for locking me out of my account but I refuse to pay ransom to get it back. I instead stopped using social media besides anonymous social media and my mental health improved immensely.
Based on the anger in this comment, maybe the anonymous sites aren't for you either?
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, as someone who works for one of these companies, no fucking way would it be worth the risk to me.
Here's my question not to you specifically but the royal you of any bigTech employees reading this forum or similar: why do the employees not stand up at all hands meetings and raise this issue as a serious problem. Of course I know the answer in they just don't care and their personal paychecks are too high for them to risk becoming a squeaky wheel. However, it is obvious that management does not intend to fix this…
> why do the employees not stand up at all hands meetings and raise this issue as a serious problem.
This definitely happens for all kinds of problems at big tech companies. But you might be absolutely shocked to learn that many times, random engineers complaining about something doesn't result in management taking immediate action to fix the issue.
> Of course I know the answer in they just don't care and their personal paychecks are too high for them to risk becoming a squeaky wheel.
Stuff like this does get brought up by employees, especially Google has a lot of internal memes criticizing various aspects of Google's culture or policies. But executives mostly just deflect or ignore it, probably because they don't see the money in fixing it.
> So instead, people with respect lose respect for those "yous" that work at bigTech.
I guess the more ignorant ones do? I figured it was common knowledge that when something is broken policy-wise at companies, and they're clearly avoiding fixing it, it's rarely the non-management employees that are the problem. Almost always, it's a strategic decision by management to not address the issue (or sometimes they do address it, but poorly).
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#99Yeah I don’t know about this. Looks like you’re opening yourself up for a TON of liability with some very powerful businesses.
But not only that, you’re likely endangering the jobs of the people who take up your offers.
Seems icky. I am all about generating side-income streams by connecting people with needs to those who can fulfill them. But this is not it. I would recommend you take whatever you’ve built and apply it to a different problem.
What about monetizing Reddit AMAs? Things like that are a lot more useful and apply to a much wider range of people.
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#100Seems insane. Surely every single company would fire you for doing that. If you put this in its proper term it is "corruption" and you should definitely worry about the legal implications of doing this.
As others pointed out, this is a huge problem in the making. Someone who genuinely deserves the suspension (e.g. posts illegal content) will use the service. They'll get their suspension lifted because the company trusts the internal employee who filled out the form. Said person will continue to post illegal content and be suspended again. Enough true negatives like this and eventually the company will discover the e…
This seems unlikely to me. No company is going to fire you because you were trying to help. However, accepting money for this service seems pretty much guaranteed to result in termination even if 100% of the accounts you help with were legitimate. The side dealing is the problem.