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Workplace Disruption Reported at Meta Amid AR and VR Push, Some Staff Defecting to Competitors Like Apple
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I hope this is the beginning of the end of this terrible company. ?
I think it’s supposed to act as a front for their crypto ambitions. I was under the assumption they’d be taking a cut off any purchase made within Suckerbergs metapoop
You agree to a job in exchange for PAY and BENEFITS.
You did not agree to a job in order to sell your soul to that company.
That's exactly why I dumped it nearly four years ago. It did, like you said, grow into a monster and lose its "charm" IMO. To be fair, it took me longer to eliminate IG and Messenger from my list of apps, but as of today, I'm Meta-free. Now if I could convince my family members to believe less of what they read on FB...
Whichever company OR companies allow Porn on their VR Platform will win the day.
That doesn't bode well for Apple's chances of success.
AR is years away !
That doesn't bode well for Apple's chances of success.
AR is years away !
if you have ambitious plans, you have to bolster your team(s) ... Oculus has not been as successful as apparently Zuck wants ...
It‘s hard to deny that they have had a massive impact on the industry. While everyone else was putzing around with angular or ember, they were building reactjs. I don’t blame people for wanting to work there, even if I wouldn't myself.
I HOPE SO!
(It still boggles me MySpace still exists, not sure if anyone really knows that. 😂
https://myspace.com/ It's mostly music, I guess some profiles also. I can't remember my login. LOL)
Bring Friendster back...nah, maybe not.
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I don’t like Facebook as a company … too many dodgy practices.
But I don’t understand the negative tone of the article. People don’t need to like their work to be competent and excel. Excellence is an attitude. This seams to be fairly standard.
1. Company is changing direction and steering employees in that.
2. Some employees will like the new direction. These are the lucky ones … good.
3. Some employees … its just work … stay and excell. Well not the best option but ok.
4. Some employees will find the new direction unbearable and move on. Good for them.
There is no disruption. Work as usual. Its happens every day. It‘s that simple.
But I don’t understand the negative tone of the article. People don’t need to like their work to be competent and excel. Excellence is an attitude. This seams to be fairly standard.
1. Company is changing direction and steering employees in that.
2. Some employees will like the new direction. These are the lucky ones … good.
3. Some employees … its just work … stay and excell. Well not the best option but ok.
4. Some employees will find the new direction unbearable and move on. Good for them.
There is no disruption. Work as usual. Its happens every day. It‘s that simple.
I like that idea but am afraid that's unlikely to happen, too big already ... I do hope that I am wrong though ...
but then again, myspace was replaced by FB, so if something else is going to replace FB, will that new one be even more evil???
put it in context with the recent articles about Apple employees leaving ... Apple is doomed ... Meta is ????
I absolutely agree that they've had a huge impact, but it seems to me that there are plenty of places to work that'd scratch that professional itch without having to resort to employment at Facebook. That said, I'm getting to an age where I'm fairly removed from what motivates a kid in their 20s, so there's that.
Is it possible that all these tech companies are going to become so focused on beating each other in virtual environments that they're not going to notice when customers decide to go back outside and participate in real life...? ?
Metaverse is an investing buzzword, like crypto has become. Actually, I’m somewhat convinced VR will never be a completely viable mainstream product (it’ll have its industrial uses, just as it has since the 1990s, it’ll just never enter the home in a huge way, and gaming chasing after VR will just marginalize gaming further). Crypto may have some long term value, though I feel like investing in crypto today is like investing in a dotcom in 1999 or 2000. Time has vindicated the Internet as a concept, but a bunch of people still lost their shirts in 2001, in part because of all the dodgy VC investments in startups that had little more than a catchy domain name to their name. But also, think about 1999, what seems like the more sensible viable idea? An e-commerce pet supply store or a vague “everything store”? The former has a sensible concept, one you can work your head around, while the other is abstract. But the former was pets.com, and the latter is now the largest retailer in the world. It’s hard to guess what will or won’t be the next big thing, as well as what will survive the bubble burst and strengthen afterwards. And the cost for getting it wrong is losing your shirt, and crypto is about at the bubble burst point.
Meta has certainly used crypto as a buzzword connected to its metaverse ideas (since they’ve specifically discussed NFTs as part of their metaverse concept). Metaverse to me just sounds like Second Life plus VR plus federalized infrastructure (multiple companies create content for it, content and interaction is spread across multiple providers). Like, you could play existing games (say, via Xbox Live) with your Twitch followers on your Oculus VR headset or something like that, while wearing a one of a kind virtual Gucci face mask, all the while buying new NFTs within that game (peak 2022, I suppose, and we haven’t even left January yet).
Why don’t I think VR will be a truly viable mainstream product? I think the motion sickness is largely an intractable problem short of brain stem jacks or other invasive technical solutions. And I don’t think people want physically invasive implants for most things, people want to blame their tech when something goes wrong (kinda like “the dog ate my homework”) and invasive implants blur the line between people and their tools. Plus, stuff needs the power to be turned off, people are increasingly choosing to connect when they want and disconnect when they can, and the more tech pushes harder the more people reserve time to disconnect. Edit: Plus, invasive implants require invasive surgery of the sort that you can’t really do annually. There’s not an upgrade cycle for pacemakers, after all! Lacking the upgrade cycle capability means that there’s not a lot of sustaining money in invasive implants.
Fair enough, if it’s large company like Facebook.
I would imagine, though, that there are many companies that don’t care what your personal feelings are: “as long as you show up and do your job sufficiently, great.”
The biggest problem I have with that movie is EVERYONE would be SO FAT. Yet somehow they lay down all day and don't go to waste.
Im not sure I’d want to hire an employee who can’t discern the difference between someone not liking change and not liking this particular instance of change, especially working in the tech space.
The beginning of the end. Meta is a Malignant Tumor in the Frontal Lobe of Humanity. Time for Zuck to leave on the Truck.
A bunch of self entitled whinging losers. If you want to express your feelings and your ideologies then go make your own company and you can set your own standards. Go to work for someone you follow their company policies and if you don't agree with any of them then leave. Tired of these stupid kids (fake adults) going to work bytching day and night and wanting the company to change for their own beliefs.