Meta employees push back against Mark Zuckerberg's memo urging them to 'have fun' at an AI hackathon

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@rohanpaul_ai the beatings will continue until morale improves

Mark Zuckerberg is trying to restart Meta’s hacker culture after 8,000 layoffs but employees are pushing back.

In an internal memo sent to staff on Friday, Zuckerberg tried to boost morale, but it seemed like a pretty clear misread of the moment. He promised a companywide AI hackathon in July, only for employees to push back hard because they were clearly not interested.

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finance. yahoo. com/technology/ai/articles/mark-zuckerberg-orders-employees-start-123539264.html

@rohanpaul_ai This is classic.

When the CEO realizes the employees own the company not them.

If you aren't an employee first environment - your days are numbered and this is why they dream about AI and robots the same way we dream about a weekend cookout.

@rohanpaul_ai START HAVING FUN AGAIN!!! NOW!!!!

@rohanpaul_ai Literally a CEO and leader that made the wrong calls and doing all the wrong things to rebuild the broken trust.

@rohanpaul_ai Mark is not Elon, only Elon can do culls at the highest proficiency:

@rohanpaul_ai He could just raise everyone’s pay lol

@rohanpaul_ai The problem with Facebook is that it can't die; it's too widespread, but it also can't reinvent itself anymore.

Mark has a pioneer spirit, but the company itself is too big and too slow to move.

He should quit and build a startup.

@rohanpaul_ai Someone tell him this picture is just a joke

@rohanpaul_ai

@rohanpaul_ai He’s not a public company CEO. He’s a founding CEO. He needs an Eric Schmidt so he can focus on vision instead of the day-to-day

@rohanpaul_ai They should have not let Yann go

@rohanpaul_ai @finkd about to bring @elonmusk to Meta as an "advisor" if Meta employees don't start to step it up. No more fake seat fillers doing nothing roles...

@GaryMarcus

@rohanpaul_ai Meta needs some real assistance getting back on track. They have such promise and watching this happen is really something.

@the_tech_space I ❤️Andre Braugher R.I.P.

@ChiefEngineerCE @rohanpaul_ai Buy-in + rewards in moving common mission is necessary, even in a complex conglomerate. Rewards must roughly match productivity. Bringing in guest-workers, dumping USA citizens tears that apart. Execs rewarding freaky stuff but not value produced wrecks it.

@javiermardoness @rohanpaul_ai I don't know, monetization ruined Twitter, but I guess it makes economic sense.

It won't make Facebook better, though; it will become a cesspool of AI slop.

@PolishUsa @rohanpaul_ai That is backfiring.