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I'm from the Philippines and 6 day week is frowned upon. I can't believe Facebook has tolerated this. As with other countries, we only work for 5 days. Corporat
by dirtylowprofile 9y ago
I'm from the Philippines and 6 day week is frowned upon. I can't believe Facebook has tolerated this. As with other countries, we only work for 5 days. Corporate greed is taking advantage of the small rates here.
I know outsourcing is good here. I know a lot of small startups here who does not take advantage of the cheap talent rates here. But this is Facebook. They preach "work life balance" on their blogs but seem to tolerate modern slavery here in my country. This is wrong. I hope this gets to the front page of your blogs and newspaper here.
- mistermann 9y agoThings like this bother me.....why insist upon 6 day weeks, what difference does it make to Facebook really, compared to just hiring a few more people? It's almost like they're not happy unless their employees are unhappy.
- lovich 9y agoIf its like the outsourced firms I've worked with at my employers, unless you make specific clauses in your contract about how the employees of your contractor will be treated, the managers of these would just pocket any money given to treat the employees better and continue on as normal
- brogrammernot 9y agoI have no frame of reference for that pay. Is the pay low or normal? Is the main issue the required 6 days/week?
- dirtylowprofile 9y agoThe pay is decent enough. But the job description for a kid straight out of college, filtering disturbing videos is not something I would recommend. And imagine doing this for 6 days per week with a quota. And you get fired for not getting the quota. This terror, fake news, live disturbing videos has been going on for Facebook for years now, I think they should have developed some kind of machine learning to at least detect and reduce a sort of percentage than get this fresh college kids to filter them. Instead they prioritize releasing new emotions stickers and transforming their messenger to a Snapchat clone.
- icebraining 9y agoWhat makes you say they don't have any automated filters? They have hundreds, probably more than a thousand developers, pretty sure they can work on content filters and emotion stickers simultaneously.
- dirtylowprofile 9y agoI think if they do have automations, they wouldn't outsource it here to us. Plus employing an additional 3,000 is not giving me any belief that they do have some filtering mechanisms.
- mahyarm 9y agoThey definitely do and are working on it. But it's not perfect and eventually you need human judgement. Even if it's just for the initial data training set.
- ageek123 9y agoI'm sympathetic, but saying that working six days a week (which MANY Americans do) is "modern slavery" seems like quite a stretch.
- johnchristopher 9y agoBut why compare to America ? To MANY, It's not the best country to live in. Plus, what good is having modern job in a modern world that sucks up so much time for work ? Can't we get a bit of the good parts of the Star Trek utopia :) ?
- dirtylowprofile 9y agoWe're not America. Some may work the same as 6 day work week, but still our rate is like 1/12 of how much you guys own in an hour. Shit, some gringos even asked me $400 to have them develop an app for them. That is like one day for an engineer from Silicon Valley.
- unfunco 9y agoCompare wages, living conditions, and working conditions. Intentional hyperbole: being forced into wage slavery in order to afford basic food and clean drinking water is a little different than taking a driverless car to the Googleplex on a Saturday morning for free breakfast and a game of ping pong.