How low is morale at Facebook?

According to NYMag's Intelligencer, it's pretty damn low:

“People now have burner phones to talk shit about the company — not even to reporters, just to other employees,” one former employee said. Another described the current scene as a “bunker mentality,” meaning that after nearly two years of continuous bad press some people are, to borrow a phrase, leaning in as hard as they can to cope. “It’s otherwise rational, sane people who’re in Mark’s orbit spouting full-blown anti-media rhetoric, saying that the press is ganging up on Facebook,” said the former employee.

Yeah.... When you're buying a burner phone just so you can vent to your fellow employees? That's a sign, people; that's when you start burnishing that resume, and planning your exit strategy. Just saying.

As to why folks at Facebook are "spouting full-anti-media rhetoric"... maybe it's because all the news about Facebook looks like this?

• New Documents Show That Facebook Has Never Deserved Your Trust
• A Few Things Facebook Forgot to Include in Its Year in Review
• Why is Facebook in the doghouse? Here are 5 reasons
• Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is more ruthless than clueless
• The biggest culprit in the Facebook debacle
• Facebook Never Really Cared About Connecting the World
• The Facebook papers are a timely reminder that Mark Zuckerberg is ruthless about making money
• Facebook Stock Could Take a Hit From Growing Distrust, Analyst Says
• 5 takeaways from the UK's Facebook document dump

Only WIRED is still playing from Facebook's false equivalence playbook, drawing attention to other, lesser examples of bad behaviour from Silicon Valley companies as if they were in any way comparable to what Facebook has just been caught doing; I guess that Definers Media money was well-spent, after all. Even WIRED couldn't maintain the facade all the way to the end of their piece, though:

Amid Facebook’s rapid expansion, [Zuckerberg’s mentor Peter Thiel] told [journalist David Kirkpatrick] he was confident that the company would avoid government intervention. “Facebook will have the maximum amount of legal and political leeway in a world where it’s seen as friendly and not threatening,” Thiel said. [...] Nearly a decade later, Facebook’s effect on humanity appears to be careening in a different direction—and Thiel’s views on globalization also have soured since. Still, Thiel’s line about fast-growing companies seeming friendly turned out to be right on the money.

Is this the appropriate point to mention that Facebook is now shedding users, and not growing? Or that Facebook's ravenous hunger for unconstrained growth is what had ultimately landed them in so much hot water now? I'm sensing a connection, there... it's almost as if Facebook's focus on growth at all costs was the root of the problem.