GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract
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Re: GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract
#2It seems that these kinds of demands are becoming more common. Is it because conflict resolution is becoming a dying art, is it because people don't rise to the level of maturity of past times? I just find it to be confusing.
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Re: GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract
#3Whoop-de-do. If you don't like the company, leave.
Re: GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract
#4I think that a lot of people see a rise and mainstreaming of White Nationalism and want to push back.
Re: GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract
#5It seems that these kinds of demands are becoming more common. Is it because conflict resolution is becoming a dying art, is it because people don't rise to the level of maturity of past times? I just find it to be confusing. Non PW link: https://archive.ph/IkYQ3
I think it's just more awareness of employee power - or, perhaps, technological advancement making it such that employees actually do have meaningful power and much more liquidity in the job market, that GitHub is GitHub because of the technical skills of ICs and not the organizational skills of management, whereas your stereotypical successful company 50-100 years ago was successful because of infrastructure and business relationships that were hard to replicate. The Traitorous Eight was fairly unexpected, but today, Deadspin writers can walk even in a bad job market.
Effective conflict resolution is always going to be lined up with who's got the power in the negotiation. If management has significant power and workers very little, most conflicts quickly resolve in the direction of what management wants. If management doesn't have quite as much power, you'll see the conflict last longer and not resolve quite as obviously.
Re: GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract
#6It seems that these kinds of demands are becoming more common. Is it because conflict resolution is becoming a dying art, is it because people don't rise to the level of maturity of past times? I just find it to be confusing. Non PW link: https://archive.ph/IkYQ3
I think it is because human rights abuses by the US government are becoming more common. Or at least more brazen.
Re: GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract
#7Whoop-de-do. If you don't like the company, leave.
I believe that is the reason this is news, yes.
""" One of those employees, staff engineer Sophie Haskins, resigned Monday, stating in her resignation letter that she was leaving because the company did not cancel its contract with ICE and “shows no indication of canceling the contract,” which she wrote was “morally unacceptable.” """
Re: GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract
#8Whoop-de-do. If you don't like the company, leave.
If all the employees with morals leave, GitHub will be left with no employees with morals. That is probably a worse situation.
Re: GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract
#9There is a well-known strategy by which employees can exert influence over their employer and change the decisions it makes. It is called a union. Unionization has been slow for various reasons in the tech sector; when it comes to rich, well-known companies, people don't want to go through the effort to unionize and get more money when they already are being paid a lot. But if workers want to influence decisions like these, they're going to have to organize.
Re: GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract
#10Whoop-de-do. If you don't like the company, leave.
Trying to understand the opinion being communicated here. People shouldn't protest things they disagree with? People have a duty to be loyal to their employer's every decision?