this is...very alien to me. i'm 100% certain there are plenty of facebook engineers who are comfortable wearing Facebook branded clothes at this time. i know some.

I will say that in my current area that's obscenely republican after January 6th I actually started hiding my employment from the general public. After Trump got banned from Twitter and Facebook some groups were making lists of known Facebook and Twitter employees and there were generic threats of violence. The local BLM group that put up some billboards and signs eventually gave up removing graffiti because it would just get vandalized again right afterwards. One of the vandals even got caught in the act and local police refused to even warn the guy.

Didn't FB leadership consider the welfare of employees before banning Trump? They should've known violence was an inevitable outcome.

Stay safe dude.

Less time spent to do laundry shopping.

And who knows, there might still be some soul working at facebook who really believe they are building a better world.

should someone who works on a cement tugboat have to believe they are building a better world. or can they just do their job?

They can just have a job. Now if you work on the tobacco industry, knowing full well the bad side-effects of tobacco consumption and keep working on it then you don't have any morals.

Linking cement production to global warming issues is at least as strong a connection and similar scale as linking Facebook to whatever bad thing you think they're doing, which is to say, a very vague one.

Cement production is not a vague link to climate change. [0]

> In 2016, world cement production generated around 2.2 billion tonnes of CO2 - equivalent to 8% of the global total. More than half of that came from the calcination process.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46455844

Cement releases a shitload of CO2. In what world is that a vague link? It’s literally the definition of the issue.

shocking, i know, but not everyone shares the same morals as a few loud % of people on twitter.

Rephrased: “shocking, i know, but some people care about nothing except money”

It's easy to do that when you work from home and never leave the basement

That’s more about provoking dangerous nutjobs than any concerns I might have.

(I moved on back in 2007, because moving fast and breaking things was not how I’m wired.)

> provoking dangerous nutjobs

Exactly. Side-eye from some of my friends was unpleasant, but never enough for me to hide where I worked. But out in public? One need only look around here to see that some people are pretty hostile and closed-minded about the company, and it's not worth inviting their attention.