Tell-all book alleges that Facebook is rife with sexism and run like a "North Korean cult"

[nationalize the fed]

TechSpot By Rob Thubron on July 1, 2016

Facebook may seem like a cool place to work, and Mark Zuckerberg can come across as quite likable and approachable. But according to a tell-all book by an advertising manager that was fired by the company, both these assumptions are far from the truth.



Antonio Garcia Martinez has released a book today called “Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley." In it, he alleges that working for the social network was like being in a North Korean-style cult with Zuckerberg taking the role of the unquestioned leader.

It’s claimed that Zuckerberg had a tendency to explode and swear at staff, leading to them nicknaming him “the little emperor.” Martinez also claims that the CEO has a KGB-like internal police force called “the Sec,” which monitored every move staff made.

"We had slogans on the walls, we were all wearing a uniform," he told CBS This Morning. "It all felt very North Korean or Cuban, almost. And so in that moment, I just realized... the motive force in history, which is one egomaniac's twitchy drive and then the common man's desire to be part of a compelling story -- which is what we were, we just were bit players in Zuckerberg's story."

The former employee claims that Zuckerberg possesses a stare that “borders on the psychopathic.” In one extract, Martinez writes how...
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Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
https://www.amazon.ca/Chaos-Monkeys-Obscene-Fortune-Failure-ebook/dp/B019MMUAAQ



According to SAI sources, the following exchange is between a 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg and a friend shortly after Mark launched The Facebook in his dorm room:

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuck: Just ask.

Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

(Redacted Friend's Name): What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don't know why.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb fucks.

Brutal.
http://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-ims-wont-help-facebooks-privacy-problems-2010-5

[oberliner]

1. This reads like an advertisement for this guy's book

Sounds like he is doing the rounds trying to sell copies.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Just a guess, but...

Facebook users care about this as much as Amazon customers and Wal-Mart shoppers care about employees and Trumpsters care about Trump's inanaity.

[pinboy3niner]

3. Unlike

[fasttense]

4. Zuckerberg is overrated

What is it with Americans trying to make saints out of their uber rich capatalists? They tried to do it wih Bill Gates and Steve Jobs and now Zuckerberg. They were lucky and in some cases criminal. They took advantage of a broken system to make their lives better. I'm not impressed.

[nationalize the fed]

7. +1

"Zuck" didn't even really invent anything- Facebook is just AOL for the next generation with more monitoring. Never could figure it out.

What is it with Americans trying to make saints out of their uber rich capatalists?

Precisely this- it's a disease that has overtaken the entire nation.

[AntiBank]

5. what's up with uber creepy jeebus halo on the plonker?

[nationalize the fed]

8. More and more of that

Intentional or not, it's pretty creepy

[frogmarch]

6. So, a guy who was fired from the company

writes a book that disses his former boss. I am shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you.

[Adrahil]

12. Seriously...

People who get fired from a company usually have such NICE things to say.

There is a guy who got fired from my company who bad mouths it very chance he gets. Surprise, surpise, he's exaggerating at the least, whole slae lying at the worst.

[TipTok]

9. A stare you say...

Get my fainting couch...

[sangfroid]

10. Indeed!

Clutching my pearls! The owner and boss of a multi-billion dollar company is an asshole and a guy he fires wants to get back at him by writing a book that puts him down!

Who'd a thunk it?

[seabeckind]

11. Don't care how he runs his company.

If his workers put up with it, meh.

As far as Facebook?

After dipping my toe into that cesspool, I decided that it appeals to people whose worst day in life was having to leave high school.

And FB gives them the chance to relive the glory years.

[fasttense]

15. Yeah and 5 year olds put up with working in the mines

And slaves, after being beaten and sexually abused, put up with being slaves.

So, I really do care how he runs his company. He is part of a greater society despite what Ayn Rand says.

[seabeckind]

17. Ok, Lone Ranger

If you can equate 5 year olds and slave with FB programmers,

I really can't argue with you.

Enjoy your day and crusades.

[smirkymonkey]

18. "I decided that it appeals to people whose worst day in life was having to leave high school."

Most accurate description ever! LOL!

[paleotn]

13. disgruntled former employee...

....take it for what it's worth. As for facebook, other than putting eyeballs on advertising, it's useless from a utilitarian standpoint. It offers no unique functionality you can't get elsewhere. In my mind, it's one of the biggest marketing scams in history.

[klook]

14. I have found that criticizing Facebook or its strategies

has almost no effect on users' attitudes.

Facebook users tend to identify strongly with the platform, since many of them use it to conduct the majority of their social interactions. Facebook has been extremely successful in indoctrinating users to depend on it and to regard it as a trusted ally. Therefore, if you criticize Facebook, you may get (at best) a look of disappointment or pity, or (just as likely) a defensive or even hostile reaction. I'm familiar enough with these responses that I no longer take it personally. I know it's "just the drugs talking."

[fasttense]

16. Well said. n/t

[Odin2005]

19. A corporation is a Stalinist state in minature.

[JaneyVee]

20. So dont work there.