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Good news for those 700: because we don't have tech worker unions, they are able to individually bargain the terms of their layoff! ...right?
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There are some tech worker unions (like at NYT) but not enough. A relevant book that recently came out but I have not read is You Deserve a Tech Union by Ethan Marcotte https://abookapart.com/products/you-deserve-a-tech-union
My first job was at a tech company with a union. Boeing. It was ridiculously bad. I've never worked with less talented people. One of my coworkers did nothing, at all, for 2 years. But with 17 years of experience, he couldn't be fired. I carried the team, but they couldn't pay me what I was worth or promote me. I left as soon as I could.
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There are some tech worker unions (like at NYT) but not enough. A relevant book that recently came out but I have not read is You Deserve a Tech Union by Ethan Marcotte https://abookapart.com/products/you-deserve-a-tech-union
My first job was at a tech company with a union. Boeing. It was ridiculously bad. I've never worked with less talented people. One of my coworkers did nothing, at all, for 2 years. But with 17 years of experience, he couldn't be fired. I carried the team, but they couldn't pay me what I was worth or promote me. I left as soon as I could.
> “As we continue to execute on our FY24 plan, we need to also evolve how we work and what we prioritize so we can deliver on the key initiatives we’ve identified that will have an outsized impact in achieving our business goals,” LinkedIn executives Mohak Shroff and Tomer Cohen wrote in the memo. Is this standard business communication lingo for layoffs?
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Classic "all unions are corrupt" propaganda despite the evidence that they are extremely beneficial to workers. > While your union leader does nothing while driving a luxury car "While the CEO owns a couple private jets and the company initiates another billion dollar stock buyback" I'd take my chances on getting an occasionally corrupt union (that I actually have a say in) vs 100% of companies that couldn't care les…
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Perhaps a newly-formed modern day union would strive to improve upon the problems of past unions with the benefit of historical hindsight.
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Is anyone really surprised? Did you think the end result of the WFH movement was going to be companies continuing to pay you to live out of your Bay Area house?
Anecdotally, in my circles, most truly thought that this won't have an impact in the compensation levels. Always struck me as incredibly short-sighted and your comment is actually the first I see that explicitly states what I thought as well. There is still an argument that, if you truly want top talent, then that top talent might actually want to live in high COL locations like NY or whatever.
It's one of a few reasons I prefer in person work.
Good news for those 700: because we don't have tech worker unions, they are able to individually bargain the terms of their layoff! ...right?
A union would have done nothing other than accelerate the process. We need laws that if a job is off-shored the company is penalized heavily, where it makes it painful and unbearable.
Good news for those 700: because we don't have tech worker unions, they are able to individually bargain the terms of their layoff! ...right?
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But I wonder: how do you feel about the CEO "driving a luxury car" (as if linkedin engineers can't afford to do the same) amidst these layoffs?
Looking for the dirt:
The UAW president pulls down $340k/y. That's mid-range L4 at LI.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12629037/UAW-presid...
The CEO of Stellantis gets $24.8M/y. That's fuck you money.
https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/chrysler/2023/02/25/s...