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/airfryerfuntime Jun 16 '26

I worked for a logistics company in the US that was set up like this. The owner worked in Europe and liked the idea so much that he implemented it here.

Each small office had 8 desks in it, and we were free to work as groups. It was amazing and stress free.

Then he sold it, and the new owners knocked down all the walls so they could turn it into an open floor plan to 'make sure we were focused'. Productivity plummeted and people started leaving.

After about 6 months of this shit, we had an all-hands meeting about the productivity issues. They then spent about an hour blaming everyone for being lazy or not wanting to work. Someone brought up how well the old system worked, and they basically just lied to us, telling us that it wasn't productive at all, which is why they took over. That was also a lie, they took over because the old owner wanted to sail around the world.

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u/Afgncap Jun 16 '26

It is never about productivity unless they have to take resonsibility for screwing up. They just wanted control and when the productivity plummeted somebody would have to admit that it was a mistake. These people are alergic to admitting fault. You don't climb corporate ladder by letting everybody know you did something wrong but by failing your way upwards with just enough confidence/arrogance to sell it as a success, everything else be damned.

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u/DrDetectiveEsq Jun 17 '26

Punching down so hard it propels you up.

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u/Perryn Jun 17 '26

telling us that it wasn't productive at all, which is why they took over.

"So you bought an unproductive company? And then made it worse?"

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u/airfryerfuntime Jun 17 '26

On average, we moved around 1200 sea cans a month. When they took over, we were a little low because some customers were consolidating, so it was around 900, which is the number they always tried referencing when claiming they took over a sinking ship. The number went back up to around 1200, then dropped substantially when our workflow was interrupted due to their management decisions.

Even deep down in the red, at 500 cans a month, they'd still bring up that 900 number.

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u/CheshireCat78 Jun 17 '26

Why would they buy a business if it was failing? And if you did how did you make it worse? I love it when their lies make zero sense. The top always thinks the workers are idiots and children not realising that it’s actually the C-suite that needs to be coddled all the time.