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Meta Scrutinizing Sheryl Sandberg’s Use of Facebook Resources over Several Years
- StrangeSound 4y agohttps://archive.ph/pIN9V https://archive.ph/pIN9V
- sdfhdhjdw3 4y ago
- nr2x 4y agoUp, all the way up.
- ProjectArcturis 4y agoShe leaned in too far.
- sdfhdhjdw3 4y agoOh that's a good one.
- SoftTalker 4y agoI don't get it :(
- sdfhdhjdw3 4y ago
- belval 4y ago"Lean In" is a book written by Sheryl Sandberg: https://leanin.org/ https://leanin.org/
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- TedShiller 4y agoThe next book is Bend Over
- atonse 4y agoSheryl Sandberg's decline reminds me of Theranos. It was riding high as a kite until it all came crashing down and everyone came out of the woodwork to pile on and say "we always knew!!!"
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- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> everyone came out of the woodwork to pile on Or those who have always been saying they’re poison get highlighted.
- ternaryoperator 4y agoNot sure I understand your point. There's nothing similar between the two except for women as the protagonists. There is no allegation of fraud with Sandberg, and I'm not seeing anyone (much less "everyone") saying about Sandberg that they "always knew."
- atonse 4y agoThey both had impeccable images and were admired universally but both images were a carefully curated facade. Not sure what them being women have to do with anything I said. Please let’s not speculate. Edit: I’m not able to find the Article from a few years ago that detailed Sandberg’s “real” personality. But I was shocked because I’ve always greatly admired her.
- worik 4y agoIt is all the examples have in common: Being women. That is all. Questionably relevant.
- atonse 4y agoIn the case of Elizabeth Holmes, I do actually feel the media played down the role of her partner in crime at Theranos, Sunny Balwani (a man) in all the fraud. Also in the case of Holmes there wasn't anything there. It was all fraud. In the case of Sandberg, no doubt she's a supremely capable executive. But her image in the media was carefully curated by a PR campaign and totally not true, according to that article I frustratingly can't find now. I am only talking about their public image, not what their jobs were.
- woodruffw 4y agoI don't particularly like Sheryl Sandberg, but this strikes me as precisely the kind of "fair weather" treatment I'd expect from Facebook's Boy King: company resources are at the leadership's personal disposal when all is smooth, and is a rope to hang you with as soon as you lose his favor.
- sdfhdhjdw3 4y agoUhhhh obviously? For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.
- woodruffw 4y agoI am, blessedly, nowhere close to that "advanced" in my career (or management style). And I don't think it's obvious; hounding your ex-COO while she's still on your board is eyebrow-raising even by the antisocial standards of executive behavior.
- azinman2 4y agoEspecially when she played a giant part in making Facebook what it is today.
- the_biot 4y agoI don't think it's surprising at all, especially in a big company like Facebook. At that kind of company, at that level, it's a snakepit. The more you did for the company, the deeper the knife in your back will go.
- wolverine876 4y agoPeople seem drawn to the fantasy of sociopathic behavior, like Game of Thrones and 'reality' TV shows with zero-sum outcomes. People aren't angels, but they aren't sociopaths either. Also, Zuckerberg needs the loyalty of talented people, present and future; if it looks like even Sandberg gets stabbed in the back, then that loyalty will be hard to come by. Also, burning the bridge with Sandberg will burn the bridge with Sandberg's network, which is probably considerable. Nobody rules alone.
- perfffay 4y agoHmmmm it's almost as if they want to make her look bad. CAREFUL, she knows all of Marc's secrets. If pushed hard enough she may flip to protect her ( fake ) 'do gooder' image. Go on, Sheryl, tell the CA AG what really happened re: Cambridge Analytica.
- greatpostman 4y agoKnows his secrets? She was an active proponent and a main driver behind Facebook. She’s as if not more guilty
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- llaolleh 4y agoThere's adversity in option B.
- boopmaster 4y agoPolitical hit piece stinks like Facebook butthurt. What an embarrassing company. If they behave this way towards execs, how do they treat the little guys? Would not wish to work for Meta. Good on her for leaving.
- stjohnswarts 4y agoI think so, maybe to also deny her some stock options or something lol. She probably thinks the whole metaverse thing is a boondoggle and pipedream of Zuck and he's mad now and turning on her.
- ozzythecat 4y agoWhen the company was doing well, the stock was doing great, etc etc, it was all good. Now that the story isn’t looking as great, we’re seeing execs get thrown under the bus. I’m not pushing any opinion on whether she did something wrong or unacceptable. But this is happening, just as Dave Clark “resigns” from Amazon, who also doesn’t have the same economic outlook they benefited from during the pandemic. Amazing how quickly these execs fall out of favor. The closest comparison I can think of from my big tech experience is the show “Man in the High Castle”, not an amazing show or anything, but I see parallels in the way it captures how Nazi henchmen were sitting high one minute and potentially murdered the next minute, or as soon as they fell out of favor. Yeah I know I sound absurd drawing any kind of comparison with Nazi Germany. But in my experience, it doesn’t matter who you are. You always have some boss, if you don’t deliver and meet their expectations, you’ll get thrown under the bus pretty rapidly. There’s more empathy in first level and skip level managers at Amazon than any director level. In my time at Amazon, I was actually trained and coached on removing myself from certain situations and not interfering or establishing certain relationships because it would help me ultimately do better whatever is right for the company. (I was a 11 year Amazon veteran before I left last year).
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- wolverine876 4y ago> Curious how even the most die-hard leftists seem to be a-ok with this. You should talk with some actual 'leftists'! They aren't at all what your sources say. Just read some leftist blogs or news sources or talk on HN. It turns out that the great majority of people of all stripes are reasonable, normal humans, and the those who tell you otherwise are the threats, the ones trying polarize and control others through hate - if people started having civil, respectiful conversations, the polarizers would be done.
- K0SM0S 4y agoI've come to realize and eventually accept that it shouldn't be called "left/right" but rather "faster/slower". As we vote, we don't strike a ±10 on some symmetrical scale; rather we decide between 0-10 on some speed range. It correlates with the strong observation in poli. sci. that the older we get, the more we tend to vote conservatively (the younger we are, the less we stand to lose since a life has yet to be made and wealth be accumulated; conversely the older we get, the more stakes we have to lose if we upend the status quo). This seems true across cultures and generations, and corroborated by a slew of psych. data. Your "normal" range of people (able to have a reasonable discussion etc.) is a fat 70-ish % of the population, centered on some '5' speed mark. Astoundingly, these people both left and right are ignored by insanely polarized politics who mostly focus on the edges, the extremes, where electoral battles are seemingly won in a dirty side-effect of the uninominal voting scheme. Hint: rank-based choice is one easy solution to this problem, but notice how most parties around the democratic world seem to ignore that yet simple and easily computable fact as of the 21st century. What I mean is that we choose to mislabel and misunderstand the problems and their solution; somehow this insane polarized and wildly suboptimal situation is maintained by whoever's in charge at most political forces as we speak. I think it's time we bring back some engineering mindset in the design of societal governance, because we might just have been too busy making the internet to notice that the people in charge are no wiser than most of us; in fact they're pretty much the very type of human beings we usually don't listen to for serious matters —at least when we're on the 'good' timeline of humanity.
- aaaaaaaaaaab 4y agoGood riddance!
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- _jezell_ 4y agoCome on, those employees were just leaning in.
- pengaru 4y agoI'm going to need to stock up on popcorn to not run out during the Facebook sunset show.
- stephc_int13 4y agoFacebook might fail faster than Nokia or Kodak, mostly because of hubris.
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- floatinglotus 4y agoZuck is leaning in on the blame game.
- smrtinsert 4y agoSo this pattern of Meta smearing reputations wasn't just her mo? Does this mean it comes from Mark?
- amachefe 4y agoI really don't see anything here. It is standard review and not a witch-hunt as being said here
- googlryas 4y agoI can't read the article, but I assume this event[0] is fairly front and center. Interesting that she's out just 6 weeks after this story broke. It's also some lovely irony that Mrs. Lean-In herself abused her position in facebook in order to attempt to intimidate a reporter from exposing the fact that her boyfriend's ex-girlfriend had to get a restraining order against him. [0] https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/21/activision-blizzard-bobby-kotick-sheryl-sandberg-meta/ https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/21/activision-blizzard-bobby-...
- john_yaya 4y agoI never read "Lean In," but one of my favorite blog posts of all time[1] did a truly epic takedown of it, exposing it as a thinly-veiled manifesto for white-collar women to become miserable underpaid status-chasing workaholics. [1] https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/03/dont_hate_her_because_shes_suc.html https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/03/dont_hate_her_becaus...
- astrange 4y agoYou don't really need an epic takedown of it to notice it's not how she herself got there. Which is, basically, make friends with famous people (Larry Summers) so they give you unreasonably high profile entry-level jobs.
- barry-cotter 4y agoCertainly a large part of her success but the reason she got given those jobs is because of the impression she made, of being a hard working, smart workaholic. Then she continued to be a hard working, smart workaholic. Goal driven people like that tend to do quite well. Not at her level, but she’s unusually smart and unusually workaholic.
- john_yaya 4y agoThe same Larry Summers who famously ruled for Zuckerberg against the Winklevoss twins.
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- 1vuio0pswjnm7 4y agoReading WSJ without Javascript Examples curl -A "" https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/meta-scrutinizing-sheryl-sandbergs-use-of-facebook-resources-over-several-years-11654882829|hxextract p /dev/stdin > 1.htm firefox ./1.htm curl -A "" https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/meta-scrutinizing-sheryl-sandbergs-use-of-facebook-resources-over-several-years-11654882829|grep -o "<p.*</p>" > 1.htm firefox ./1.htm x=$(echo x|tr x '\34'); curl -A "" https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/meta-scrutinizing-sheryl-sandbergs-use-of-facebook-resources-over-several-years-11654882829 \ |tr -d '\12' \ |sed "s/<p[^a]/$x&/g" \ |tr '\34' '\12' \ |sed -n 's/<\/p>.*/<\/p>/p' > 1.htm firefox ./1.htm links -no-connect https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/meta-scrutinizing-sheryl-sandbergs-use-of-facebook-resources-over-several-years-11654882829
- ratsmack 4y agoThe hxextract needs a '-' at the end to read from stdin, otherwise curl ends with error 23 indicating pipe closed prematurely. You also need a space after the '-A' or it sees the '-s' as the user agent name. The double quotes adjacent to the '-A' does nothing in that context.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 4y agoForgive me, I do not use curl myself, except in HN examples. As a matter of practice, I never send a User-Agent header. The localhost forward proxy I use does not send it, nor do the HTTP client utilities I write. If some application sends the UA header, the proxy removes it. How to remove the User-Agent in curl, without editing the source. The idea to use -A "" comes from the curl help text: If you give an empty argument to -A, --user-agent (""), it will remove the header completely from the request. If you prefer a blank header, you can set it to a single space (" "). Another way is to use -H: curl -H User-Agent: https://example.com One might think that would send a UA header with no value, however it actually removes the UA header. One of the reasons I dislike curl is that there are too many options and the program is constantly changing. I would have to check older versions but I seem to recall in some past version(s) leaving off a space between the option and the option value had some (useful) effect in curl. Maybe not. At any rate, I apologise for the mistake. Thank you for the correction.
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- stjohnswarts 4y agoFacebook would have been a failure without her and now they're on a witch hunt to ruin her reputation lol.
- throwoutway 4y agoWhy her? If there was another COO there, how would it have turned out different?
- lesserknowndan 4y agoSo… are they going to say the Metaverse was her own personal project?