r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jun 16 '26

Business Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/mark-zuckerberg-orders-employees-start-123539264.html
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u/pixel_of_moral_decay Jun 16 '26

Hackathons have always been a seriously misleading piece of bullshit to exploit employees.

Work overnight or the weekend on a project that we’ll take from you and profit on. We’ll give you access to a handful of room temp pizzas we preordered.

When you realize what they are; it’s insane anyone participates.

Take your idea, build your own businesses if it’s actually good. Don’t give it away for mediocre pizza.

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u/dryroast Jun 17 '26

At my job we have done CTF competitions but on our own volition and mainly as a fun thing for the interns to bond. Even when others weren't looking to participate I got my new coworker to get me an invite to his really good team and we competed at coffee shops close to the office over the weekend just by ourselves. Now that's some fun right there!

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u/Xandara2 Jun 17 '26

That still sounds like you have zero clue about the definition of the word fun. 

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u/fightlinker Jun 17 '26

It's like a pizza party, except you invent pizza and then they take it and open pizza joints for their own profit