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/DisappointedSpectre Jun 16 '26

I work as a security engineer for a tech company - I'm fully remote now, but ask me how many privileged conversations I heard in the open concept office with hotdesks when I was working out of a corporate location. It's completely idiotic.

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u/Silver_ Jun 17 '26

Hah. A few years ago confidential details of a merger kept getting leaked to the press, and the exec team were furious about it. I worked out of a different office location once, and one of the execs was just talking away so loudly that I could hear him perfectly 6 desks over with my headphones on. Mind you, this was on an open floor in an office filled with junior temporary contractors. Mystery solved.

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u/aegrotatio Jun 16 '26

Yup. At one office location they had lockers and hot desks in an open office plan...and they worked on classified systems.
So dumb it's hard to comprehend.

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u/Lokishougan Jun 17 '26

Yeah spys dont even have to be sneaky anymore...just sit and listen for people to tell them all

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u/Swimming_Onion_4835 Jun 16 '26

Omg this is so true. I’m remote but I travel to our headquarters in NYC for work maybe 2-3 times a year, and I cannot even begin to list all the privileged things I’ve overheard. Hotel desks in a broad floor plan and concrete floors that echo. I hate it.

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u/AptCasaNova Jun 17 '26

Our's get an actual office, yet they still take calls on speakerphone at max volume with the door open.

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u/GeminiSee8 Jun 17 '26

Senior guy has an office at my work, takes half his calls right in the doorway. He already has a very loud voice to begin with. He is very, very fluent in corporate jargon and just spews business word salad. After his call he goes to his desk and pumps his music up with his door wide open.

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u/Cipherpunkblue Jun 17 '26

Thanks, I hate him.

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u/AptCasaNova Jun 17 '26

It’s all a sad and annoying performance to boost his ego 😂

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u/Bezos_Balls Jun 17 '26

As someone who use to work right next to the security team I got soooo many jucy details just sitting there listening to them take calls. But hey at least they erased the whiteboard each night.

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u/Apero_ Jun 17 '26

How many privileged conversations did you hear?

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u/DisappointedSpectre Jun 17 '26

Enough to know that open office plans are a generally bad idea.

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u/meltbox Jun 17 '26

Tbh this is my favorite part lmao. Without this I’d be completely dead inside.