Controversy? What controversy? You mean people who are deciding to voice their opinions about what they spend their hard earned money on? You know, like anyone else? If your favorite sports team trades all the players you like, or starts treating fans like shit does anyone start sobbing about the “controversy” if…

You mean like having the choice to have a child pushed down your throat? Where you know what happened in a bedroom because a child was formed? Your choice? Stop pushing it on others?

Your experiences aren’t universal.

Unions are the way to go. The people who have worked here for 25+ years have no idea how good they have it.

I’d been looking for a new job for 2.5 years before I found my current job. Unfortunately just job hopping isn’t as easy in some cities as it might be in others. 

Do you like weekends? Do you like health and safety standards for your job? Do you like being paid in real money and not company scrip? You can thank unions for those. Individual negotiations wouldn’t get you those things if no other employer is offering them.

You are absolutely right - which is why there is a union here at all. But our CTO is from the private sector, and so is the entirety of management. If not for the union you can bet your ass we wouldn’t have the vast majority of the benefits I listed above.

I mean, sure, unions have objectively made workers lives better (all workers, not just unionized ones) over the years. But yeah, “just quit” is a viable solution to a systemic problem.

Are there any situations where you need to lay off people? Sure, lots. But they generally aren’t situations where you are making record profits but want another percentage point or two on your share price. Businesses go in to down turns, contracts fall through, calculated risks blow up - it happens and sometimes you…

If working for a shit paycheck means missing your daughters graduation, then perhaps stop receiving that shit paycheck.

Nope. 

I’ve worked in IT in your standard smallish-medium company. Spent years there, company got bought out by a larger company, unpaid over time, forced hours, forced on call with almost zero compensation, 0-0.5% raises as the bosses are having staff meetings talking about their latest company they bought, etc etc etc.

I went to a job that is 35 hours a week for full time instead of 40 and my quality of life shot up. Union jobs are the way to go if you can find them.

Knitting is impossible to make money on - grandparents who spend a dozen hours knitting something to sell for $10 have made it so that no one can even afford to replace the yarn costs of an item, much less actually charge for time.

This would be an excellent addition!

So - just because you might not know - you can actually add any game to your Steam library and then use the home-streaming option through the steam client/steam link/etc to stream it. It doesn’t work with every game, but it works with 90% or so of the ones I’ve tried.

And you might have a case if these were performance firings. But these are explicitly cost cutting measures.

We all know how the system works. None of us are ignorant that it’s not profit but growth that shareholders are demanding. Explaining that like it’s some deep revelation is asinine.

You’re not wrong, legally speaking. However, since my response was in response to someone asking “How would you like them to operate” - you are answering the wrong question. I don’t believe that companies should strive for short term profits at the expense of their workforce, and I think that the unchecked greed…

You’re not wrong, legally speaking. However, since my response was in response to someone asking “How would you like them to operate” - you are answering the wrong question. I don’t believe that companies should strive for short term profits at the expense of their workforce, and I think that the unchecked greed harms…