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from the article: > A company like Mapbox hadn’t ever unionized before, so it seemed like an exciting experiment Regardless of one's views on unionization, in
by devmunchies 4y ago
from the article:
> A company like Mapbox hadn’t ever unionized before, so it seemed like an exciting experiment
Regardless of one's views on unionization, in this scenario as an underdog competing with 2 multi-trillion dollar companies in the space (Apple and Google), this "exiting experiment" reasoning seems especially reckless, irresponsible, and naive.
IMO, at such a small company like mapbox, it's akin to mutiny.
- Apocryphon 4y agoOh no, mutiny in tech? Not as if that hasn't been a good move before (e.g. the Traitorous Eight, or the ousting of Jobs).
- devmunchies 4y ago> Traitorous Eight employees who left and started a competitor? how is that mutiny? > ousting of Jobs technically, the board had the voting power, and he wasn't even CEO. Generals removing a lieutenant isn't mutiny. If anything, he was planning a coup (mutiny) himself.
- Apocryphon 4y agoDesertion isn't mutiny now? Acquiring Jobs' splinter cell, and making him a general, isn't rewarding his attempted mutiny?
- devmunchies 4y agoeither way, your examples resulted in employees leaving and starting a competitor, which were net positive for the industry. They didn't create a union. They grew the industry as a whole which was better than any union could do at the time.
- Apocryphon 4y agoYou are right in saying they created a net positive, and I am right in asserting that mutiny is not always a bad thing, which you are wrong on.