For real, though. Why in the fuck do you still work at Facebook? Just quit.
Same reason any of us work: money.
Upvoted. Only solid reason there is.
Meta’s chaotic AI strategy
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#72> “It's literally the gulag,” one of the employees claims. “You have zero purpose in life all of a sudden, you barely interact with anyone, you just have these tasks every week." May I be blessed with a life so comfortable that I would be able to complain in such a way.
Due to "politics" my teams main responsibility went from developing ai agents to just testing out a chat it developed by another team. When you spend 8 hours a day doing mind numbing tasks, tasks that won't help you land another job and is constantly under stress of being fired, its bad for your mental health
Did you think making unholy amounts of money came with no strings attached?
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#73They should rotate all employees between divisions. When done creating AI puzzles they can enjoy a stint in the Content Review team.
They should spend one day working at a McDonalds or as a last mile delivery driver. Ill bet playing with a chat bot looks a lot better after that.
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#74I wish these losers the worst. Working for zuck is its own reward.
Indeed. Zero sympathy for someone helping creating this man his slop machine. It's kinda funny that their main problem is that they don't have enough work. >“It's literally the gulag,” one of the employees claims. “You have zero purpose in life all of a sudden, you barely interact with anyone, you just have these tasks every week." >Across the company, more than 1,600 employees have signed a petition demanding that M…
> Indeed. Zero sympathy for someone helping creating this man his slop machine
I don't get these kind of accusations. They are working to build the AI model so that it is not slop anymore.
> It's kinda funny that their main problem is that they don't have enough work.
Why is this funny? Do people not want to have good work?
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#75This alone should keep anyone away from using React.
This comment is funny because it has nothing to do with the post and the situation but just there to "boycott".
The only issue here is that Zuck is giving some marginally bad work to employees and they don't have much work to do. And your response is... social activism to boycott React which is not even a part of Meta anymore?
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#76Soul-crushing work for a soul-crushing company. Hard to feel much sympathy.
> Hard to feel much sympathy.
I think these comments are incurious and coming from more of an emotional and activist place than anything.
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#77> It's literally the gulag,” one of the employees claims. “You have zero purpose in life all of a sudden, you barely interact with anyone, you just have these tasks every week."
Another employee describes some of the tasks—generating puzzles to test how reliably AI models from Meta and other companies can solve them—as easy compared to the software development work they had been doing previously. But the new projects feel menial, and “almost all” employees seem unhappy, they say. “Most people find the work soul-crushing,” the third employee says.
Then quit your fucking jobs you entitled assholes. You’d be shocked how many people would gladly do that for $300k/year.
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#78Soul-crushing work for a soul-crushing company. Hard to feel much sympathy.
> Hard to feel much sympathy. I think these comments are incurious and coming from more of an emotional and activist place than anything.
Maybe some of us direct our curiosity in more worthwhile directions, and have already figured out our worldview with regard to situations like this.
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#79So basically they built an in-house version of Mercor, the sleazy company that hires desperate people on a freelancer basis to train LLMs so they can be replaced.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
How come people these days treat jobs like its a social gathering?
The same people who bully the ones that actually do the work for not being fit for “company culture”. I had a similar experience before where I over delivered every task, but that wasn’t enough because I refused to join pizza parties and other “team building” activities.
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