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Facebook Employees Are So Paranoid Theyre Using Burner Phones to Talk to Each Other
WHAT THE ZUCK? | DEC. 5, 2018
By Madison Malone Kircher
Illustration: Intelligencer
Facebooks reputation has only continued to get more sullied in recent weeks, and its taking a toll on employees. According to a new report Wednesday from BuzzFeed News, things over at the old FB are, well, kind of grim.
People now have burner phones to talk shit about the company not even to reporters, just to other employees, one former employee said. Another described the current scene as a bunker mentality, meaning that after nearly two years of continuous bad press some people are, to borrow a phrase, leaning in as hard as they can to cope. Its otherwise rational, sane people whore in Marks orbit spouting full-blown anti-media rhetoric, saying that the press is ganging up on Facebook, said the former employee.
Employees also referenced Dara Khosrowshahi, the current CEO of Uber who was brought in to take over for Travis Kalanick and clean up his mess. The suggestion here is that bringing in somebody new, somebody who isnt Mark Zuckerberg or Sheryl Sandberg, could help fix Facebook. This, of course, seems highly unlikely and, as BuzzFeed notes, loyalty to leadership at Facebook runs deep. But, to Khosrowshahis credit, the strategy seems to be working at Uber thus far. Maybe theres something to that idea.
WHAT THE ZUCK? | DEC. 5, 2018
By Madison Malone Kircher
Illustration: Intelligencer
Facebooks reputation has only continued to get more sullied in recent weeks, and its taking a toll on employees. According to a new report Wednesday from BuzzFeed News, things over at the old FB are, well, kind of grim.
People now have burner phones to talk shit about the company not even to reporters, just to other employees, one former employee said. Another described the current scene as a bunker mentality, meaning that after nearly two years of continuous bad press some people are, to borrow a phrase, leaning in as hard as they can to cope. Its otherwise rational, sane people whore in Marks orbit spouting full-blown anti-media rhetoric, saying that the press is ganging up on Facebook, said the former employee.
Employees also referenced Dara Khosrowshahi, the current CEO of Uber who was brought in to take over for Travis Kalanick and clean up his mess. The suggestion here is that bringing in somebody new, somebody who isnt Mark Zuckerberg or Sheryl Sandberg, could help fix Facebook. This, of course, seems highly unlikely and, as BuzzFeed notes, loyalty to leadership at Facebook runs deep. But, to Khosrowshahis credit, the strategy seems to be working at Uber thus far. Maybe theres something to that idea.
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Facebook Employees Are So Paranoid They're Using Burner Phones to Talk to Each Other (Original Post)
sl8
Dec 2018
OP
Interesting. Their own employeees don't trust Facebook not to mine data and invade privacy, so
suffragette
Dec 2018
#3
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)1. fakebook needs to be gone; hopefully they are on the way out!
Squinch
(50,916 posts)2. This. I can't believe people still use it.
Initech
(100,041 posts)4. Mark Zuckerberg is a terrorist.
And Facebook destroys everything it touches.
suffragette
(12,232 posts)3. Interesting. Their own employeees don't trust Facebook not to mine data and invade privacy, so
much so they are using burner phones.
Yet they still want other people to use it.
Speaks volumes about company process and culture.
TheBlackAdder
(28,167 posts)5. Kick!