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I've been wondering - in many startup companies, the engineers own all of the knowledge to run the company (documentation practices are discouraged by managemen
by cballard 11y ago
I've been wondering - in many startup companies, the engineers own all of the knowledge to run the company (documentation practices are discouraged by management because that's not "shipping"). Why don't we see more collective action? If the entire engineering staff walked, the company would be fucked, which gives them quite a bit of leverage. Meanwhile, the engineers can easily find other jobs since they're relatively in demand.
- scarmig 11y agoIf only there were some kind of organization of workers that could organize collective actions. Like, walking out and withholding your labor... Maybe we could call it a workers unified organization? A unity?
- Apocryphon 11y agoA guild.
- walshemj 11y agoWhich has some unfortunate conations in American industrial history.
- Apocryphon 11y agoI was thinking of it in terms of online gaming.
- walshemj 11y agoDon't take this the wrong way if your thinking about organising IT workers in some way you do need to understand American Industrial history at least in outline.
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- FussyZeus 11y agoI would simplify that and just not work at a place that was only making money off of investors and fundraising. If my boss doesn't have a product to show me and a business plan to sell it, I'm out of there.