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‘It’s Total Chaos Internally at Meta Right Now’: Employees Protest Zuckerberg’s Anti LGBTQ Changes (www.404media.co)

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[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

You know what would be an effective 'protest'? If employees started deleting important files...

[–] mke@programming.dev 30 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Sorry, I can't tell if you're serious or not.

It's extremely unlikely that facebook has in place a system that allows any lowly engineer to cause such damage alone. No hard drive hosting unique files no one else has, without backups, without security, and so on.

If you're a billion dollar corp that depends on an important recipe to make your product, you're not leaving the only copy of it on front desk with no oversight.

I don't see how deleting files would work as a form of protest. Would probably get you in trouble, though.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Okay, so what are employees doing? The title says "employees protest", by "protest" do they mean "complain but continue to follow orders"? Because that's basically the norm for any job.

[–] mke@programming.dev 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Don't know. Article asks for sign-in, but much as I like 404's reporting, I just don't feel like creating one more account right now, so all I got is they're unhappy and talking. Maybe they're talking to people who can do something about it, maybe they'll do more soon—organizing takes time, after all—or maybe they'll do fuck all 'cause that's what we usually do.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I don't think 404 uses a password-based login if that makes a difference.

I personally just consume their crap via RSS like most other things I read.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Unionize tech and then it can happen.

There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels ... upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all

[–] mke@programming.dev 3 points 3 hours ago

Well, yeah, if tech workers unionized, maybe they'd have some leverage. Let's hope they get to that before the next absurd move from big tech? Fingers crossed, 143rd time's the charm.