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I keep seeing this criticism and I don't get it. Presumably no one knew about his proclivities - not his parents, not his best friend, not his wife (if he had

by mdoms 5y ago

I keep seeing this criticism and I don't get it. Presumably no one knew about his proclivities - not his parents, not his best friend, not his wife (if he had one), no one. It's obviously a very secretive part of his life and it's unreasonable to expect an employer to somehow know this about him. Meta employes 60,000 people according to a quick google search. I promise you there are plenty of Meta employees who have hobbies and interests the employer doesn't know about.

KennyBlanken 5y ago
- z3c0 5y ago
  I think you knew what they meant. Changing the wording doesn't change their point, so you're nitpicking semantics.
- deleted 5y ago
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Mountain_Skies 5y ago
There aren't 60,000 employees who are the Head of Global Community Development. I'm not sure how far up the org chart that position is but I'm betting it's up in the top 1% of the company. It's not like this is the janitor or the person stocking the supply closet.
- iqanq 5y ago
  So what do you want, Facebook to hire dicks to investigate employees?
  - mauvehaus 5y ago
    In case the downvotes are for language, "dick" is also slang for a detective, sometimes specifically a private investigator[0], which I infer the parent intended in their usage. Which isn't to say it's never been used in a double entendre with its more common meaning. See, for instance, the theme to Shaft[1]. [0] https://www.quora.com/How-did-the-term-private-dick-for-a-private-investigator-originate?share=1 https://www.quora.com/How-did-the-term-private-dick-for-a-pr... [1] https://genius.com/Isaac-hayes-theme-from-shaft-lyrics https://genius.com/Isaac-hayes-theme-from-shaft-lyrics
    - datavirtue 5y ago
      Slang for a private investigator, in 1940 maybe.
  - rexpop 5y ago
    They already do; they've contracts with Pinkertons to undermine union organizing.
- Jabbles 5y ago
  You might lose that bet. The article merely describes him as "a manager of global community development".

by mdoms 5y ago

KennyBlanken 5y ago

z3c0 5y ago
I think you knew what they meant. Changing the wording doesn't change their point, so you're nitpicking semantics.
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Mountain_Skies 5y ago

There aren't 60,000 employees who are the Head of Global Community Development. I'm not sure how far up the org chart that position is but I'm betting it's up in the top 1% of the company. It's not like this is the janitor or the person stocking the supply closet.

iqanq 5y ago
So what do you want, Facebook to hire dicks to investigate employees?
- mauvehaus 5y ago
  In case the downvotes are for language, "dick" is also slang for a detective, sometimes specifically a private investigator[0], which I infer the parent intended in their usage. Which isn't to say it's never been used in a double entendre with its more common meaning. See, for instance, the theme to Shaft[1]. [0] https://www.quora.com/How-did-the-term-private-dick-for-a-private-investigator-originate?share=1 https://www.quora.com/How-did-the-term-private-dick-for-a-pr... [1] https://genius.com/Isaac-hayes-theme-from-shaft-lyrics https://genius.com/Isaac-hayes-theme-from-shaft-lyrics
  - datavirtue 5y ago
    Slang for a private investigator, in 1940 maybe.
- rexpop 5y ago
  They already do; they've contracts with Pinkertons to undermine union organizing.
Jabbles 5y ago
You might lose that bet. The article merely describes him as "a manager of global community development".