Facebook employees reveal the worst things about working for the social network

Facebook employees, including engineers and software developers, have criticised Mark Zuckerberg's allegedly "holier than thou" attitude and lack of professionalism at the company.

Earlier this year Facebook was voted the world's best employer but it seems that not all employees agree with this accolade.

One former employee said he was expected to separate his boss's dirty laundry, while another claimed there was "no privacy whatsoever" at the company. An apparent lack of professionalism at Facebook was criticised by an engineer, which was said to lead to "uncomfortable situations".

Another criticized the long working hours which he claimed sometimes involved being oncall for 24 hours a day, seven days a week. According to Business Insider, the disgruntled employees posted their opinions on question-and answer- website Quora. Read more >>

Greek Trader Explains Why The Country Is Heading For Rebellion

A trader in Greece gives Business Insider a grim assessment of the mood in the country right now. Right now, I am afraid there is very little visibility regarding the political developments in the next few months. You might as well toss a coin. At some point, however, I believe we shall reach some kind of 'social tipping point' regarding the ability of the Greek households and society to absorb more austerity measures, the consequential continuing steep decline in economic activity and ever rising unemployment. The result may well be social rebellion, maybe even civic mutiny and associated political and parliamentary instability.

This is the the game plan that the neo-communists of Syriza have been preparing for over the past year or so and the one that they have actually reinforced whenever and wherever that was possible. Unfortunately, I cannot see a 'good ending' scenario, under the present circumstances.

Now when this tipping point may be reached, is anybody's guess. It could very well be, as close as only a few months away. I do not believe that you can find anybody, within or outside Greece, that still sincerely and truly believes that the troika process of 'internal devaluation' shall lead to a positive socioeconomic outcome since no effective counter-balancing economic development measures and incentives were ever implemented, or even seriously considered. Read more >>

“Netanyahu has Decided to Attack Iran before the U.S. Elections”

According to the Promethean Post, Senior Israeli officials now confirm that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has, “decided to attack Iran before the U.S. elections in November.”

 

Netanyahu’s agenda is much broader than knocking out Iranian nuclear installations for his aim is to reshape the political landscape in the USA and Israel shifting everything to the far, far right in order to create a new comfort zone for religious fundamentalists.