Sheryl Sandberg announces that Facebook will be hiring an additional 1,000 people in Ireland over the next year, bringing its total number of people employed here from 4k to 5k pic.twitter.com/lswkVAtfZW
— Christine Bohan (@ChristineBohan) January 21, 2019
Sheryl Sandberg now talking here in Dublin about the new jobs. And also ‘what kind of internet we want’.
“We did not do enough to prevent [bad things happening on Facebook]. We need to do a better job keeping people safe on our platform.” pic.twitter.com/zzos659iOK— Adrian Weckler (@adrianweckler) January 21, 2019
This morning/afternoon.
Facebook HQ, Dublin.
FIGHT!
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It’s amazing how she just keeps grinding on. Can’t be easy.
What kind of work is actually done in FB Dublin? Is it all development, support or just moving the money around? All the scrubbing of beheading videos etc is done by agency staff from what I remember.
It certainly is not development. Nor employment for mostly Irish people. How about leaning out again. Remember what role these people played in Soros,s denigration and Cambridge Analytica, not to mention failure to remove abuse of women and kids. But hey they get free food while our poor kids are handed a packet of noodles a day. Puke central.
Election on the way. PayPal will probably announce another 2000 shortly.
I think you could be right about the election. The local councilors where I am, keep putting up posters for clinics that they are running. Everything from staying safe online, jobs clinics and killing and cleaning fish caught from the canal.
“could be right”? Well, there’s the local elections for 950 seats and the European elections for 13 seats (assuming the Brits fupp off when they promised) in just over three months, so that’s a fair assumption on your part! And despite the FFers signing up for another year of confidence and supply, I wouldn’t rule out a summer general election.
Unless the Facebook employees are armed with sticks, I’d say the Salesforce employees will beat them to death every single time there’s a fight at the viewing for the €2,500 a month 1-bed flat in the docklands area, it’s more the corporate culture you’d get at Salesforce that their employees would be superior in this regard. Hopefully, the estate agent with the brash tie will correctly referee these fights to the death, maybe video them and stick it up on youtube, would make for mighty nightly entertainment.
Could definitely charge for the fights too and then that’s even more money.
But the FB employees will have the advantage for those prime properties that are advertised directly on Facebook.
She is my favourite billionaire.
“what kind of internet we want”
easy. one without Friendface, thats’s what.
Bring back the AOL “walled garden”.
A future without Faecesbook please.
More awful news – how will the Broadsheet commentariat cope??
With a good, old-fashioned lynching.
Duh.
Jobs in Ireland ≠ Jobs for Irish people.
Just sayin’
What’s you point, caller?
(I know plenty of Irish people who work/have worked in Google’s Dublin office, btw).
But they are not real Irish people then.
A good chunk of the jobs will go to Irish people. And of those that don’t, the non-Irish people will be living, paying taxes, and spending their wages in Ireland. So they’ll still be a big benefit to the Irish economy.
Plus, lets be fair here, the Irish gene pool could do with a bit of diversification. Importing a load of Italian/French/Spanish/German/Portuguese educated 20somethings can only do positive things for us.
Thats how it is in all countries moany, so why don’t you take your racist dog whistle bs and shove it up your derriere.
I’d prefer one that was free and open. If people want Facebook, good for them, I don’t.
As for the rest of what she had to say, I’ll go with Michelle Obama and say probably BS.
I’d imagine its all McJob call centre positions, or mostly, anyway. Seeing as there is an emphasis on 3 different media outlets on telling us the jobs will ‘spread across’ their SIXTY TEAMS, I’m going to be cynical and say most will probably call centre or similar.
Lucky for them though, Broadsheet does a good line in accommodation advice, so they can get themselves a lovely airing cupboard for about 3/4’s of their monthly salary – Monday to Friday only.
Genuinely thought that was Rachel Weisz
Rachel Weisz, Rachel Weisz,
Every morning you greet m……
You need glasses Bruce Wee !
Adrian Weckler is hoping she’ll rescue him from the Indo.