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Nice screening process for the company that knows everything about you.

I keep seeing this criticism and I don't get it. Presumably no one knew about his proclivities - not his parents, not his best friend, not his wife (if he had one), no one. It's obviously a very secretive part of his life and it's unreasonable to expect an employer to somehow know this about him.

Meta employes 60,000 people according to a quick google search. I promise you there are plenty of Meta employees who have hobbies and interests the employer doesn't know about.

There aren't 60,000 employees who are the Head of Global Community Development. I'm not sure how far up the org chart that position is but I'm betting it's up in the top 1% of the company. It's not like this is the janitor or the person stocking the supply closet.

So what do you want, Facebook to hire dicks to investigate employees?

In case the downvotes are for language, "dick" is also slang for a detective, sometimes specifically a private investigator[0], which I infer the parent intended in their usage.

Which isn't to say it's never been used in a double entendre with its more common meaning. See, for instance, the theme to Shaft[1].

[0] https://www.quora.com/How-did-the-term-private-dick-for-a-pr...

[1] https://genius.com/Isaac-hayes-theme-from-shaft-lyrics

Slang for a private investigator, in 1940 maybe.

They already do; they've contracts with Pinkertons to undermine union organizing.

You might lose that bet. The article merely describes him as "a manager of global community development".

LMAO

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