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Unbelievable. This parallels to my experience working for a local startup long time ago. The amount of abuse people, the bullying, useless HR seems to be a pret
by jorgecurio 11y ago
Unbelievable. This parallels to my experience working for a local startup long time ago. The amount of abuse people, the bullying, useless HR seems to be a pretty common theme in an industry without a union.
I still don't get why people who would benefit most from a union would be against it. The explanations are usually self serving but a union is protection for the collective. Classic divide and conquer strategy by employers.
- greggman 11y agoWhy? Because many of us have experience with the bad side of unions and we don't want to see programming become anything like that. You'll end up with mountains of regulations and specialties and not be allowed do anything outside of those bounds. Imagine being told "you're a front end programmer. You are not allowed to submit code for the back end, that is for certified backend programmers only. Also you are not allowed to edit CSS or HTML. That is for certified web designers only" Why? Because that threatens the backend guys and web designers jobs). Check out some union rules sometime and look at all the crap. I don't want any part of that to come to programming
- xlm1717 11y agoYou would just be trading corporate abuse for union abuse.
- slantedview 11y agoThere are some problems that a union can solve which seem to be unsolvable otherwise, such as age discrimination, which is rampant in private sector tech but not so much in public sector tech (surprise).