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>>There's literally no way that you could have any possible way of bargaining your way around that as a single person. Actually you do, by walking across the s
by ejb999 5y ago
>>There's literally no way that you could have any possible way of bargaining your way around that as a single person.
Actually you do, by walking across the street and getting a big fat raise to join a different company. That is one of many reasons engineers by and large don't feel a need to have someone else bargain for them - they negotiate with their feet.
- smachiz 5y agoIf you clicked the Parent's link, you would have seen it was discussing the anti-poaching collusion / wage fixing that was going on. You couldn't walk across the street, because the company across the street agreed not to hire employees from the other company across the street. The free market isn't always free.
- beastman82 5y agoIf you clicked the parents link you would have seen that it involved 2 companies, not the market itself
- smachiz 5y agoThere were far more than two involved. That article just covered the two. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_Litigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L... And that’s just the ones they had enough evidence against.