Fastmail Employees Form a Union • Hacker News Board

Re: Fastmail Employees Form a Union

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Post by tonfreed » Fri, Dec 22, 2023, 4:45 AM UTC

jmcphers wrote: post #20

elektor wrote: post #9

Congrats to the team! This might be the reminder I needed to finally subscribe. Gmail’s spam filter has been nonexistent for the past month (300+ clearly spammy email reaching my inbox).

I'm a happy Fastmail customer, but I would not recommend them on the basis of their spam filter. It's competent but makes at least a few mistakes a week. Google's was better for me.

I make liberal use of the masked email feature. Love Fastmail

Re: Fastmail Employees Form a Union

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Post by superduty » Mon, Dec 25, 2023, 7:09 AM UTC

righthand wrote: post #5

superduty wrote: post #2

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Because software workers should start looking to form unions as large companies take to stagnate wages with large hire/layoff cycles that flood the employment market.

Stagnate. lol. You’re new here aren’t you.

4x average US salary not enough for you as a starting wage?

Snowflakes.

Re: Fastmail Employees Form a Union

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Post by superduty » Mon, Dec 25, 2023, 7:11 AM UTC

nightski wrote: post #10

righthand wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because software workers should start looking to form unions as large companies take to stagnate wages with large hire/layoff cycles that flood the employment market.

You can't unionize your way to a better economy, that's not how that works.

Yep. Nor can you unionize to better wages or working conditions. We are long past the usefulness of unions.

Unions achieve nothing but enriching their executives and stifling innovation and ballooning costs.