Tech workers are so oppressed. 🙄
Could you be more entitled?
Well, she could be you—so the answer is a resounding yes.
So it’s entitled now to suggest someone else is acting entitled? Wut.
Have you ever worked outside of the tech industry?
Steel mill worker in 1902: “yeah, but have you tried working in a coal mine?”
Uh so it’s bad for tech workers to strike to improve sexual harassment polices, for instance? Things are better so we should just give up?
I’d be down.
Most people who are unhappy simply move. There’s rarely a reason to loose friends.
I dunno...it kinda sucks where we work. This is something that has definitely crossed my mind, but I don’t even know where to start with doing something like this.
No I'd just go somewhere else, it's easier
No. The work environment for most tech workers is extremely good and I think a tech strike would trivialize the experience of those who actually suffer to a certain extent. To more directly answer why tech workers don't organize, it's because we already do have a lot of power individually. Companies fight over us. I don't think organizing would add much to my ability to get what I want.
We'd also become the laughing stock of everyone else in the country. Aw poor little baby whining about not enough free food, soda, cadillac health plans and retirement plans, and six figure salaries for sitting in a chair.
Professional athletes strike. They are paid a lot more than we are, but they also work far harder and their job is much more difficult
Go work on a manufacturing line and tell me you have poor working environments. Better yet, go volunteer in an impoverished area and tell me how bad we have it. Ffs the entitlement is incredible with this one
Very true. I think the original post was about relative change?
Thanks. Edited.