That kind of group viewing says a lot about company culture: even criticism can become a shared ritual when everyone is invested in the story being told
I’m not going to watch The Social Reckoning, but let me share a fun story about seeing The Social Network when I worked at Facebook back in the day
At an all-hands, Zuck said he initially didn’t want to watch it—but if he was going to, we’d all watch it together
So the whole company saw the movie together in a rented out theatre
Afterwards we threw an impromptu company party across several bars in Palo Alto
There’s a throwaway scene in the movie where the Sean Parker character first meets Mark. Sean asks Eduardo’s girlfriend what she wants to drink. She wants an appletini
Sean then says: “Appletinis all around!”
After the movie, I was standing next to Zuck at the party and asked him: “wouldn’t it be funny if we ordered appletinis?”
Zuck loved the idea. A hilarious way to toast to an incredibly inaccurate movie
So with my best Justin Timberlake as Parker impression, I told the bartender: “Appletinis all around!”
And so this is one of my favorite photos from my time at Facebook