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Re:Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg Says He Is Accountable as Company ... by justapassenger on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @05:22PM (#33525133)
What would you consider being held accountable?

Sure, resigning is an atomic option, for a CEO, founder, board member and person having controlling amount of votes. Is there anything else that you'd consider as true to that statement?

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Re:Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg Says He Is Accountable as Company ... by ripvanwinkle on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @06:11PM (#33525547)
Well he do something meaningful - say pay a full years wages for everyone laid off from his personal funds
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Re:Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg Says He Is Accountable as Company ... by TechBro8615 on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @06:26PM (#33525659)
You think he should donate $1,000,000,000+ to the employees his company needs the least?
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Re:Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg Says He Is Accountable as Company ... by falcolas on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @07:13PM (#33526008)
If the layoffs are indeed his fault (and not his employees, as he says in his announcements), why not?

Call it an "punitive fine" to stop him from making this same mistake.

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Re:Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg Says He Is Accountable as Company ... by ripvanwinkle on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @04:15PM (#33537952)
well yes, he brought them in - many if not most were probably just fine in the previous jobs. If he truly feels accountable for what's happening to the people being laid off why shouldn't he.
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Re:Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg Says He Is Accountable as Company ... by TechBro8615 on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @07:10PM (#33540189)
It's not like he's depriving them of a job, they can go work somewhere else.
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Re:Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg Says He Is Accountable as Company ... by karaterobot on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @07:39PM (#33526193)
Think of it another way: accountability is answering to someone. As the majority shareholder and CEO, who is Zuckerberg accountable to? Nobody, really. He might say "I am accountable to the billions of Facebook users", but of course that's lip service: try scheduling a meeting with him to review his performance and put him on an improvement plan.

He has arranged the company so that he is not accountable to anybody, so him saying he is accountable is either a lie, or a misuse of that term.

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