The internet takeover thread

[SuburbanFarmer]

Well, in that case, Facebook is great.

I don't really believe that most corporations rely on peer reviews, do you ? If so, show me some evidence.

Facebook is just leading the way, by formalizing the existing political process.

WTF
You stated Facebook's work atmosphere is like every other corporation with peer reviews. Then you said they are leading the way. Which is it ?

If you are just like everyone else, your not leading the way.

I meant that most corporate promotion/advancement is based on peer approval. Then I ironically said that Facebook’s “great innovation” is to formalize the existing catty process that dominates corporate life.

[C-Mag]

Big Tech are huge corporations, with most the problems and evils of huge international corporations, so I agree with you there. But Big Tech has been snooty as shit about how they know a better way, a friendlier corporate atmosphere. For instance, they refer to their massive corporate offices as a campus. Who the fuck are they trying to fool.

It's about image. I think that's what some of these employees are saying. They don't want to play office games, they just want to be judged on their work.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Big Tech are huge corporations, with most the problems and evils of huge international corporations, so I agree with you there. But Big Tech has been snooty as shit about how they know a better way, a friendlier corporate atmosphere. For instance, they refer to their massive corporate offices as a campus. Who the fuck are they trying to fool.

It's about image. I think that's what some of these employees are saying. They don't want to play office games, they just want to be judged on their work.

Stupid plebs.

[Speaker to Animals]

Big Tech are huge corporations, with most the problems and evils of huge international corporations, so I agree with you there. But Big Tech has been snooty as shit about how they know a better way, a friendlier corporate atmosphere. For instance, they refer to their massive corporate offices as a campus. Who the fuck are they trying to fool.

It's about image. I think that's what some of these employees are saying. They don't want to play office games, they just want to be judged on their work.

They pretty much are a campus. Everything is there. Aside from all the office space, research labs, etc., there are cafeterias, a gym, and lots of classrooms for training. I used to spend a few days to a week each month or so in classes.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Surveillance Capitalism

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01- ... capitalism

[clubgop]

Facebook is just leading the way, by formalizing the existing political process.

WTF
You stated Facebook's work atmosphere is like every other corporation with peer reviews. Then you said they are leading the way. Which is it ?

If you are just like everyone else, your not leading the way.

I meant that most corporate promotion/advancement is based on peer approval. Then I ironically said that Facebook’s “great innovation” is to formalize the existing catty process that dominates corporate life.

Bullshit falsities- check

double talk or doubling down to cover tracks or to hide glaring shortcomings- check

get called on it- check

claim nuance, pedantry, irony, joking, sarcasm to try to dodge the obvious- check.

You can set a watch to it.

[Fife]

Surveillance Capitalism

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01- ... capitalism

Needs more scare quotes.

[Fife]

[Fife]

This seems like a good spot for a note about the wonders of the market.

Google: The end is nigh.

So why is the end nigh for Google? Because they are encouraging and rewarding mobbing behavior among their employees. Using a word in the culturally normal way in a technical presentation generated a couple of days worth of uproar on the company network.

All that activity occurred during work hours. Those people were not doing any revenue generating work while they were raging on about pronouns. But worse, now every guy who has a presentation to make is worried about what harmless word is going to be the next one to cause a mob. Will it be "team?" How about "shoe" or "badminton?"

Net result, the smart people who get all the work done are going to see that and leave the company. You can't work in an environment where snowflakery is more important than a major product presentation. The ones who are left behind, such as the idiot who objected to using the word "family" in a sentence, are the ones who DON'T ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING. They are a cost, not an asset.

Dead company walking.

[C-Mag]

New Free Speech media platform...………….. No Filthy Collectivists Allowed, because they do not support Free Speech


https://zox.ee/


Anyone have any info on this ?