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This is part of the circle of life for internal Facebook turmoil:

10 Facebook does something to draw ire

20 Employee drama

30 The company leadership offers some platitudes to buy time

40 GOTO 10

5. (Optional) Establish some Oversight Council or Committee, to be disenfranchised, dissolved, or declawed at the company's earliest convenience.

If my memory of BASIC from the 80s is still accurate, Line 5 will never get executed, because of the GOTO 1 in line 4, so not even optional.

Yeah, the OP should have numbered them 10, 20, 30, and 40, so the GP could insert a needed line in between...

Man, this is triggering more memories of programming in Basic. I remember writing programs in BASIC (as a kid/teen, mind you) where I didn't plan enough for changes and had to renumber swaths of code to allow more functionality. I was so happy to learn Pascal.

I edited my post. Go wild!

Earliest convenience? It hasn't even started yet and they appointed 40 people to it. It was designed as an exercise to try and prove that people can't agree on what's unacceptable.

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