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> One of Facebook’s internal slogans is something like “always do what’s best for Facebook”. Is that real? Like they really have this slogan that like comes s
by VeilEm 11y ago
> One of Facebook’s internal slogans is something like “always do what’s best for Facebook”.
Is that real? Like they really have this slogan that like comes straight out of a modern interpretation of Marx's theory of alienation shoved right into their employees faces?
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- silverpikezero 11y agoIt really does explain a lot though. This is why, when down the road Facebook needs to make revenue or suffer the wrath of investors, your personal life will become their cash machine. This is already true; just wait, it can get much worse than it is now.
- logfromblammo 11y agoThat is also, if I recall correctly, remarkably similar to an internal slogan printed on a banner at Innitech, in Office Space. I'm not certain that I would be able to suppress a fit of the giggles any time I saw it in an actual, real-life office.
- sammydavis 11y agoa lot of tech-forward companies do it, and not ironically. search for the testing on the toilet series at google.
- bobby_9x 11y agoZuckerburg is in bed with the Chinese government, so it would make sense that he uses their tactics of controlling a large group of people.
- lazzlazzlazz 11y agoI have never heard of this as a slogan at Facebook and I have close ties there; this seems like someone venting emotionally.
- spimmy 11y agoI am absolutely venting emotionally, I thought that much was clear. :) But I heard a variant of this in dozens or hundreds of meetings, generally when a project was getting shut down or canned or reorg'd, so it's not true to say that it's not true. It's not even a bad slogan. Company priorities should come before territorial interests. This is why it's important to work in a place that shares your values at a high level.
- derefr 11y agoI think people are juxtaposing "what's good for Facebook" not with "what's good for [territorial subunit]", but rather with "what's good for the lives of the people working at Facebook." A slogan like that is sensible in the first case and terrifying in the second case.
- spimmy 11y agoI think you're right, and I completely intended it in a practical, non-incendiary way. People would constantly say they weren't there to pursue personal, political agendas, they wanted to have maximum impact and do what was best for Facebook. It's like the #1 catchphrase you have to memorize to get ahead. It makes sense. In most cases, it's even true. I may have a separate set of issues with Facebook People policies, but there are a ton of really passionate, amazing engineers working there who deeply believe in the mission (or at least their local specialty). I miss many of them very much and wish them all well.
- obrero 11y agoWhen I went into Facebook's bathroom, at eye level over each urinal was posted a weekly newsletter, which talked about changes to their PHP API.
- tannerc 11y agoIt's not.
- pasbesoin 11y agoMy response would be to put a personal spin on a trope that was being shoved down my and my coworkers throats circa 2005: "Mind the gap." (Yeah, some executive/consultant type went to London, heard the message, and wrote a book, I'm guessing.) Mind the gap. When what's good for the company diverges increasingly from what is good for you... Companies want you to "invest" in them, as a worker. If they aren't reciprocating, well, don't let yourself become co-dependent. Beware, also, of when they may be offering something but it simply doesn't fit you. Your struggles will come across -- they will communicate themselves.
- jonathankoren 11y agoI never saw that. However, the "Stay Focused & Keep Shipping" signs always seemed dark to me.
- rahij 11y agoI'm a former employee. Never saw this either.