[jordanb]

> Software developers in the US are seriously expensive, using them for data labeling would be a waste of resources.

Zuck basically went to a town hall and explained to his employees that their remaining value to him is as training mules for his AI.

[senordevnyc]

It seems really dumb to tell them that. I assume they’re all feeding garbage to the models now.

[lovich]

They’ve largely filtered their employees for people who have a mental breakdown if they don’t get 110% on a 100% scale or get the top of the top rating because they’ve done that their whole life until they got their first job at the tender age of 25-28 after getting their masters or PhD.

I’ve met too many meta members who have stories about their direct reports or peers who had a crashout because they got Exceeds Expectations and a mid 5 figure raise instead of Greatly Exceeds Expectations with a higher 5 figure raise not because of the money but because of not getting the top score.

I’m pretty sure zuck is being a rational sociopath and realizing he can use the PSC system to get these people to widely work against their best interests due to their ego.

[godwinson__4-8]

idk... In their own way these types of people who have blinders on to such a degree that they crashout over such things are also sociopaths...

Seems like a side effect of the k shaped economy... our society increasingly doesn't have rewards for normal hardworking people. Given tech has been disrupting blue collar jobs for decades I have a hard time feeling sorry for them. Working at Meta already meant you were chasing a bag knowing the product was more or less social poison anyway. It doesn't seem to me that Zuck is uniquely culpable... maybe he's just the best one at the game they're all playing...

The fact he still cares so much about Meta when he is a billionaire is just like those crashouts. Again, it's the same type of person. He's just better at it than they are.

[lovich]

I have no empathy for the types of people who got layd off from meta who can’t see the similarities between them and the industry they disrupted.

I advocated for people who lost their jobs due to tech disruption to learn how to become software engineer not from a place of superiority but from a place of “this is one of the last places you can be self taught and earn a middle class income”

I am saying this has now hit the tech world and I will hold zuck culpable, although not uniquely since that requires a set of 1, but because he’s in charge of one of the top 10 companies in terms of big tech.

You don’t get to be that rich and that in charge of decisions, without holding responsibility. If you want to claim otherwise, then cool, you shouldn’t complain when we take all the assets you are apparently not responsible for.

[dlev_pika]

I like the part when he “took full responsibility” for HIS Metaverse mistake, and fired everybody else lmao

Gavin from Silicon Valley did it first