[roland00]

The bigger thing is a mismatch between the employees of facebook and the management. These weekly meetings happen all the time, what is different is now the employees are recording them and releasing them to the press. This means at least one employee no longer thinks the interest of upper management and the workers align and she or he spent forethought in order to record the conversation and then spent time afterwards figuring out a way to contact the press.

This is a there there, even if the actual conversation transcript is banal and what you would expect from Zuck.

[dmurray]

The big news is that one of Facebook's 40,000 employees is disgruntled, idealistic or just likes to feel important?

[roland00]

This is big news when the Facebook employees we are referring to starting salary is 120k a year and the median employee is 240k a year. [Note many people who work for facebook are some form of contract employees and thus do not make this, but it was also not a contract employee who recorded this conversation for they do not get to sit down with Mark in these weekly meetings.]

Even if you are not happy with everything about Facebook that income level often prevents this type of behavior for the incentives of company and worker align generally. And it is a big deal for this was a new thing, not a thing that never happens, but also not a thing that happens often that it becomes the new normal.

[whenchamenia]

You spelled ethical wrong.

[cjhopman]

> This means at least one employee no longer thinks the interest of upper management and the workers align ...

That's strange. I interpreted it to mean that there was a worker that thought that the media was greatly misrepresenting facebook and facebook management's position and they released these extensive transcripts to show just how banal the reality was.