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Honest question - what does 'take accountability' and 'take responsibility' actually look like for Zuckerberg here?

Honest question - what do you expect it to look like beside making the statement and giving employees a more than gracious severance package to back up the words?

He goes and asks an executive recruitment firm to find a successor and spends more time on the board.

Yeah it sounds tough but if he'd hired a guy who oversaw what's just happened, he would have fired him.

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Quite a difference between this message and the one Twitter (i.e. Elon Musk) sent to its employees.

As much as people hate Mark Zuckerberg and accuse him of being a robot, he showed much more humanity in his message in respect to Ironman Elon.

Totally agree, Phony Stark behaves abysmally towards his staff - not just at Twitter, but also at Tesla.

When Elon Musk Tried to Destroy a Tesla Whistleblower

https://archive.ph/G3HpY

This is quite viscous and what does that say about what kind of person he is? Or when he hired a PI to dig up some dirt on the rescue diver saving those kids from the cave - just because the diver didn't think Elon's mini submarine idea wouldn't work. And he called the diver a Pedo as well.

Someone with that kind of mindset and in power.... is dangerous.

Re: Meta lays off 11,000 people

#124
While I truly feel the best outcome for humanity is Facebook/Meta shutting down, I will give due credit to the PR and HR teams for managing to make Zuck look human in this moment.

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> At the start of Covid, the world rapidly moved online and the surge of e-commerce led to outsized revenue growth. Many people predicted this would be a permanent acceleration that would continue even after the pandemic ended. I did too, so I made the decision to significantly increase our investments. Unfortunately, this did not play out the way I expected. This is very similar to the Stripe layoff memo at https://…

Not only the structure, the wording is also identical: "Today I’m sharing some of the most difficult changes we’ve made in Meta’s history." "Today we’re announcing the hardest change we have had to make at Stripe to date." "At the start of Covid, the world rapidly moved online and the surge of e-commerce led to outsized revenue growth." "At the outset of the pandemic in 2020, the world rotated overnight towards e-com…

Corporate robots are the same everywhere.

Re: Meta lays off 11,000 people

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post #41

> At the start of Covid, the world rapidly moved online and the surge of e-commerce led to outsized revenue growth. Many people predicted this would be a permanent acceleration that would continue even after the pandemic ended. I did too, so I made the decision to significantly increase our investments. Unfortunately, this did not play out the way I expected. This is very similar to the Stripe layoff memo at https://…

When has there ever been a "permanent acceleration" in revenue growth for any company? Or do I misunderstand what they're saying?

Re: Meta lays off 11,000 people

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post #41

> At the start of Covid, the world rapidly moved online and the surge of e-commerce led to outsized revenue growth. Many people predicted this would be a permanent acceleration that would continue even after the pandemic ended. I did too, so I made the decision to significantly increase our investments. Unfortunately, this did not play out the way I expected. This is very similar to the Stripe layoff memo at https://…

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Re: Meta lays off 11,000 people

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post #41

> At the start of Covid, the world rapidly moved online and the surge of e-commerce led to outsized revenue growth. Many people predicted this would be a permanent acceleration that would continue even after the pandemic ended. I did too, so I made the decision to significantly increase our investments. Unfortunately, this did not play out the way I expected. This is very similar to the Stripe layoff memo at https://…

Everybody used the same AI to write the memo.
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