Hundreds of Facebook employees walk out as Zuckerberg plans town hall tomorrow
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Re: Hundreds of Facebook employees walk out as Zuckerberg plans town hall tomorrow
#2Can’t imagine lower stakes than an employee making $400K not dialing in for a day and not even having to take a PTO day to do it.
Re: Hundreds of Facebook employees walk out as Zuckerberg plans town hall tomorrow
#3Walkouts will achieve nothing, but the tragic part of the story is Silicon Valley engineers are sitting on a massive amount of power to affect real change IF they collectively organize, which they have various irrational hang ups about doing. Zuckerberg does not care if 50% of his engineers skip a video meeting. He would greatly care if he found out 50%+ of his SREs were going on strike. But the word union is stigmatized even though doctors/lawyers/police/actors/teachers unions all wield massive political power, engineers accept their market based compensation and micro kitchens and decide that’s enough then are shocked that on political issues they get pushed around by the execs and VCs. If you want to have any voice in what your work does in the world, step 1 is collective organization of Silicon Valley engineers, anything besides that is smoke and mirrors and a waste of time.
Re: Hundreds of Facebook employees walk out as Zuckerberg plans town hall tomorrow
#4I support this walkout. As a small business owner all I've been able to do was purge my FB page profiles. I'm proud of them for taking a bigger step than I'm able to make.
Working people of all countries unite. Seize the means of production!
Re: Hundreds of Facebook employees walk out as Zuckerberg plans town hall tomorrow
#5Note that this so-called walkout consists of people already at home taking a personal day and changing their autoreply email.
Re: Hundreds of Facebook employees walk out as Zuckerberg plans town hall tomorrow
#6Walkouts will achieve nothing, but the tragic part of the story is Silicon Valley engineers are sitting on a massive amount of power to affect real change IF they collectively organize, which they have various irrational hang ups about doing. Zuckerberg does not care if 50% of his engineers skip a video meeting. He would greatly care if he found out 50%+ of his SREs were going on strike. But the word union is stigmat…
Some of us have been in unionized industries prior. It also lead to promotion based on years served. Pay scales. And the protection of low performers.
Right now engineers have incredible leverage. What do they gain by a union.
Don’t like what Facebook is doing. Quit and work elsewhere. There’s plenty of jobs available
Re: Hundreds of Facebook employees walk out as Zuckerberg plans town hall tomorrow
#7Walkouts will achieve nothing, but the tragic part of the story is Silicon Valley engineers are sitting on a massive amount of power to affect real change IF they collectively organize, which they have various irrational hang ups about doing. Zuckerberg does not care if 50% of his engineers skip a video meeting. He would greatly care if he found out 50%+ of his SREs were going on strike. But the word union is stigmat…
So we should hand over control and censorship of the President's communications to a small group of Silicon Valley engineers?
Re: Hundreds of Facebook employees walk out as Zuckerberg plans town hall tomorrow
#8Walkouts will achieve nothing, but the tragic part of the story is Silicon Valley engineers are sitting on a massive amount of power to affect real change IF they collectively organize, which they have various irrational hang ups about doing. Zuckerberg does not care if 50% of his engineers skip a video meeting. He would greatly care if he found out 50%+ of his SREs were going on strike. But the word union is stigmat…
1. It's my understanding that doctors and lawyers have professional organizations, which aren't really the same thing as a union.
2. Unions and professional organizations, and really all organizations intended to consolidate power for one group over another, have both good points and bad. Obviously, unions have played an important role in improving worker safety and security, and that's great. But they've also contributed negatively in some ways. Not wishing to organize under as part of a union is not necessarily irrational; it may just be a different weight applied to the varies effects said organizations have.
Re: Hundreds of Facebook employees walk out as Zuckerberg plans town hall tomorrow
#9Walkouts will achieve nothing, but the tragic part of the story is Silicon Valley engineers are sitting on a massive amount of power to affect real change IF they collectively organize, which they have various irrational hang ups about doing. Zuckerberg does not care if 50% of his engineers skip a video meeting. He would greatly care if he found out 50%+ of his SREs were going on strike. But the word union is stigmat…
So we should hand over control and censorship of the President's communications to a small group of Silicon Valley engineers?
Aren't there official government channels for presidential communications, like the whitehouse.gov website, and state of the nation addresses?
Obama managed fine without ever relying on Twitter.
Re: Hundreds of Facebook employees walk out as Zuckerberg plans town hall tomorrow
#10Can’t imagine lower stakes than an employee making $400K not dialing in for a day and not even having to take a PTO day to do it.
Your account may be shadowbanned. I vouched for this comment though. It describes what I feel. Not that the workers perhaps aren’t doing anything else. But solely this action doesn’t mean much at all.