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Yes ... but as engineers we need to support the professional organisations that in turn will support us when we need to make these difficult and politically cou
by w_t_payne 9y ago
Yes ... but as engineers we need to support the professional organisations that in turn will support us when we need to make these difficult and politically courageous decisions.
- drdeadringer 9y agoWho are such organisations?
- mistersquid 9y agoWithout putting words into w_t_payne's mouth (and at risk of incurring the ire of HNers who are wary of them), unions would be one such form of organization. Other such organizations might include software engineering guilds but I don't think such guilds generally act to protect the interests of software engineers collectively or individually. For various historical and professional reasons, software developers have not seriously considered unionization as a means of advancing their interests. However, unions typically do protect their members from arbitrary and unfair work termination. YMMV EDIT: change indirect object of first sentence in last paragraph.
- dreen 9y agoWithout getting too much into politics, I agree with you 100%, unions are the way to go.
- DonHopkins 9y agoTagged unions are an even better variant.
- davidcuddeback 9y agoIEEE and ACM are the professional organizations for software engineering. They even jointly published a code of ethics for software engineering: https://www.computer.org/web/education/code-of-ethics https://www.computer.org/web/education/code-of-ethics.