Watching an acquirer ruin your company

Post by pdimitar » Tue, Jul 05, 2022, 1:55 PM UTC

SamoyedFurFluff wrote: post #187

pdimitar wrote: post #181

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Unionization can be hijacked by employers, history knows of such occurrences. Plus Amazon and Google have been caught up (in the recent times nonetheless) of hiring paid saboteurs to impede people from unionizing. My job is not to do underground mafia wars. If the employers want to fight dirty I'll just move to someplace else. Eventually they'll be stuck with the people who are OK with being slaves -- but won't be cr…

Inquiry: does this apply to other well-paying unions, such as the actors guild and professional sport players? I’m genuinely asking, because as far as I know they are still in existence and regularly ensure better working conditions for their membership without limiting their mobility.

Post by Phlarp » Tue, Jul 05, 2022, 3:03 PM UTC

mm007emko wrote: post #144

Phlarp wrote: post #119

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And still too busy smelling our own farts to unionize.

Well, question is which part of the world you live in, of course. But I don't need to unionize. If I am not satisfied in my job I can switch. Each consecutive job hop past 15 years got me better pay, better benefits and sometimes a better job (sometimes it was equaly shitty as the prevous one but for better money). This does not happen for unionized workers. Maybe in the future we will have to unionize. Definitely no…

Post by leaflets2 » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 11:34 AM UTC

robocat wrote: post #340

leaflets2 wrote: post #332

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Please tell me more? I've a bit been wondering if a non profit could be better than a Limited Liability Company for some future projects And I work 60h/week already, cannot join two coops to learn more :-( I suppose one problem could be that they'd try to make decisions via consensus or votes -- but there might be one person who is brighter and/or knows more than the others, and leaving most decisions to that one can…

I have little direct experience, but what I do have all points towards failures of consensus. Look at the most recent company you worked for, and from your colleagues think of: one idiot engineer, one idiot manager, and one idiot admin. Now imagine that they each feel they have equal rights as anyone to share their “input” into that business, and imagine trying to find consensus with you. Now multiply that problem by…

Post by jimmaswell » Sat, Jul 09, 2022, 2:27 PM UTC

coredog64 wrote: post #297

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If you keep looking for the same job as you get older, yes. I'm well above your age guess and starting a new job soon, but it's definitely not the same role or expectations as 20 years ago. I've found that if you work to differentiate yourself as an individual the substitution cost is very high, so you can find work even in the most challenging environments. I think this would be a much harder strategy in a heavily u…

Something to consider is pension lock. Your pension is tied to a specific employer, and leaving means losing everything. I hear this all the time from school teachers, but it also happened to my mom: Budget cuts were coming and while she had enough seniority to stay employed, she didn’t have enough juice for choice of location. She was going to have to accept a job that required an additional hour of commute that she…