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I had to check if it was April Fools' Day. This is one of the most disturbing posts I've seen in a while. I sincerely hope that people who profit off of this wi
by hurutparittya 2y ago
I had to check if it was April Fools' Day. This is one of the most disturbing posts I've seen in a while. I sincerely hope that people who profit off of this will get fired at the very least.
- DEADMINCE 2y agoHonestly I see it more as giving some rights back to the common man that these giant tech companies don't feel the need to respect.
- MrDarcy 2y agoIf you’re one of the employees who sign up for this, beware. Facebook will surely sue this guy and the payment paper trail will be the first thing he’s required to give over in discovery. I don’t see how he can guarantee you’ll be anonymous for long.
- matsemann 2y agoOn what grounds could they sue?
- bee_rider 2y agoThe employees are clearly engaging in fraud by doing non-work activities on the clock. The companies know this because they haven’t hired anyone to do customer service.
- matsemann 2y agoBut the person said they could "sue this guy". I can see how they would have a beef with their employee doing this, but don't see what grounds to sue "this guy"? Mind you, I know little of the US legal system outside Suits and other probably as incorrect shows.
- almostnormal 2y ago> [...] by doing non-work activities on the clock How do you know they are doing it on their company paid time?
- AtlasBarfed 2y agoEveryone reading I should watch the movie Brazil. Remember who the true hero was. He wasn't in it for long.
- 7speter 2y agoThis guy will be able to request things for discovery too.
- eschneider 2y agoIt's quite likely a honeypot.
- bee_rider 2y agoThe concept seems like… performance art protest or something. Building a platform to bribe your way through the opaque customer non-service system of these companies is either low corruption or high art.
- neilv 2y agoI love this theory. Society at the mercy of customer service so bad that we revert to bribes. And the techbro answer is an upstart third-party for-profit service to facilitate the bribery, complete with a launch on HN. And it's a marketplace, with offers, for libertarian bonus points.
- hn_throwaway_99 2y ago100% - I see lots of comments saying things like "Don't you know companies would fire you for this??" which to me sounds a little bit like "Don't you know you shouldn't eat babies??" after reading A Modest Proposal. On the other hand, I guess life does imitate art sometimes...
- dkarras 2y agoYeah, my initial response was: this is wrong on so many levels, and I love that it is out there for public to see 100 art points.
- kelnos 2y agoRight, my reaction was initially to be a bit horrified, but then I kinda smiled a bit. It's absurd, and awful, but so funny.
- actionfromafar 2y agoI mean, aren't you likely to already have some cognitive dissonance from working at FB? What's a few hundred dollars more worth of it in the grand scheme of things.
- bee_rider 2y agoThe author is either for real or very committed to the bit.