Facebook Culture Erodes

A story about the declining culture at Facebook, highlighting employee entitlement and trivial complaints.

"When my wife worked at Facebook, Zuck would do these all-hands meetings where you could show up in person and ask questions. Facebook had 15,000 employees but only about 100 people would show up, which is crazy. It's like having the chance to ask Andrew Carnegie or John Rockefeller any question - it's pretty amazing.

I used to tell my wife to keep asking interesting questions because Zuck would get to know her. But instead, I heard this story where someone raised their hand and said 'We have a huge problem at Facebook - we don't have tampons in the men's restroom and it's discriminatory.' Zuck was like 'Is this really what you want to spend your time discussing?' But they insisted on talking about it, so he had to call up HR to address it.

My friend who worked there would send me screenshots from their internal Facebook group. It was basically just a complaint session. People would post about the most trivial things - like someone complaining that the orange juice was moved in the cafeteria away from the salad bar, calling it a 'microaggression' against their vegan lifestyle. These posts would get hundreds of comments, with employees wasting hours fighting about everything from parking garage layouts to milk choices to email wording."