One of my coworkers voluntarily worked through the weekend, and convinced a more junior member of the team to do so, too. I was like, why? So we can hit our schedule? How does that help you? Like, ok, sure, you have some small amount of equity because we’re extremely white collar but is that stack of lotto tickets worth giving so much up?
He was also talking about hiring contractors to get more developers without paying as much. Among other objections, I asked “Do you think hiring contractors is a union busting move?” And he blinked and said he hadn’t really thought about it, and doesn’t really know much about unions. I refrained from saying “You should read up on them during the weekend you have because of unions.”
But software as an industry is kind of politically iffy. Lots of rugged individuals in the mix.
I have tried so hard to get my co-workers in software to unionize, but they all have a combination of apathy or contempt for the idea as somehow being beneath them.
One of my coworkers voluntarily worked through the weekend, and convinced a more junior member of the team to do so, too. I was like, why? So we can hit our schedule? How does that help you? Like, ok, sure, you have some small amount of equity because we’re extremely white collar but is that stack of lotto tickets worth giving so much up?
He was also talking about hiring contractors to get more developers without paying as much. Among other objections, I asked “Do you think hiring contractors is a union busting move?” And he blinked and said he hadn’t really thought about it, and doesn’t really know much about unions. I refrained from saying “You should read up on them during the weekend you have because of unions.”
But software as an industry is kind of politically iffy. Lots of rugged individuals in the mix.
I have tried so hard to get my co-workers in software to unionize, but they all have a combination of apathy or contempt for the idea as somehow being beneath them.