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The article tries to make the story all about Facebook, when it basically just boils down to the fact that a (alleged, there is still due process required) perv
by version_five 5y ago
The article tries to make the story all about Facebook, when it basically just boils down to the fact that a (alleged, there is still due process required) pervert worked there. They didn't know about him, they weren't harboring him or anything, it's just a low level employee doing something inappropriate.
- spywaregorilla 5y agoThe head of global community development is a low level employee?
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- mdoms 5y ago> The head of global community development The article says "a head", not "the head", and refers to him as "manager of global community development". Of course I can't confirm this, but on one of the big Reddit threads on this topic an anonymous user claimed to be a Meta employee and looked this fella up, he managed 10 people. Just a low level people manager.
- spywaregorilla 5y ago10 direct reports is very different from total downstream people. Feels unclear still
- ghaff 5y agoA manager of community development isn't even necessarily a people manager. That said, other people with a similar title at Facebook on LinkedIn do seem to be fairly experienced (although not really senior) so they may very well manage people.
- itake 5y agoI glanced through a cache of his twitter account. I would expect important industry leaders with twitter accounts would have larger following. I don't think this was a high level roll like the article described.
- SpicyLemonZest 5y agoProbably, in much the same way as a vice president is a low level employee at Goldman Sachs. "Global community development" sounds to me like a team that was named to sound impressive, not a team that actually determines Facebook's global priorities.
- joezydeco 5y agoBanking is a bad example. Anyone with 2+ years of experience gets a VP title.
- SpicyLemonZest 5y agoThat’s not very far off from how it works in this kind of subspecialty. Google had a controversy last year involving their “Global Lead for Diversity Strategy and Research”, who seems to have been just a random IC with no particular authority.
- version_five 5y agoI made an assumption based on "manager" as his title. Usually they is way down in the hierarchy for big companies, I could be wrong in this case
- tonymet 5y agotitle inflation. Banks have thousands of VPs
- plumbus 5y agoI am a numbers guy. How many bank VP is a kiddy diddler? I would venture, quite a bit.
- toiletfuneral 5y agotrue but its not exactly the first time : https://www.polygon.com/2016/12/27/14088862/cops-arrest-oculus-executive-in-underage-sex-sting https://www.polygon.com/2016/12/27/14088862/cops-arrest-ocul...
- fallingknife 5y agoFB has 72000 employees and many more former employees, so if this was the first time it would be miracle.
- irrational 5y agoIs there any large company without bad people? There was a guy on my floor that was fired when he was busted by the police for child porn. I didn’t know him, but I have to assume he isn’t the only one at a company with tens of thousands of employees.
- datavirtue 5y agoThere was a somone at a defense contractor here in Cincinnati that piled a bunch of amunition in a wastebasket and set it on fire, hoping to cause a chaotic explosion. He felt bad and went screaming for everyone to leave the building after he lit the fire. Nice guy. Building was ruined. He got four years for it.
- dangerboysteve 5y agometamate pervert.
- commandlinefan 5y ago> doing something inappropriate Accused of something inappropriate, but summarily fired anyway.
- pc86 5y agoWell if we're being pedantic, he also admitted to that inappropriate (and illegal) act, which happens to be involving a child.
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- rosndo 5y ago> (alleged, there is still due process required) He literally admits to it on the video. Admitted, not alleged. Leave due process to the courts.