We all know that working at Facebook isn’t all sunshine and rainbows, and it’s not just based on watching The Social Network. Just ask all the poor content moderators who are stress-banging each other in office stairwells to deal with the trauma. But as awful as those jobs are, the worst job in Facebook almost certainly goes to the armpit handler for the social media/misinformation giant‘s alien (or robot) founder, Mark Zuckerberg.
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Bloomberg published a review of a book titled Facebook: The Inside Story, which goes deep into the company and its executives, including Mark Zuckerberg. The book sounds like an intriguing look into the fustercluck that’s going on at the company, but that is all secondary to a bizarre anecdote Bloomberg found about Zuck and his sweaty armpits.
Apparently ol’ mate Zuck gets super nervous before he delivers a speech and gets a bad case of the anxiety sweats. Since a having a big visible sweat patch on your shirt isn’t a good look, the Facebook founder deals with it by getting a member of his communication team to blowdry his armpits before he takes to the stage.
Let’s see, moderate Facebook content or help dab the armpits of your CEO. That’s a tough decision but moderating traumatic Facebook content wins out here (barely) since dabbing an alien/robot’s armpits doesn’t sound pleasant.
Needless to say that thought of one of the world’s most powerful men getting someone to dry his armpits for him resulted in a roasting on social media (somewhat ironically), and Twitter chief executive had a pretty good dig at Zuck about it.
You’re probably wondering why doesn’t Mark Zuckerberg just deal with his sweaty armpits himself or simply not wear grey T-shirts. The answer is… actually we don’t have a good answer to that.
But when you’re the founder of Facebook, you have a lot of other things to worry about than your sweaty armpits so you might as well throw money at the problem.
And besides, masquerading as a human isn’t easy when you’re an alien (or robot) and Zuck probably didn’t know what humans did when his armpits started excreting some weird fluid and needed some outside assistance.
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