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Switching jobs is hard for a ton of reasons. We also do need people to operate the rail system. "Everybody just leaves and becomes a software engineer" isn't g
by UncleMeat 4y ago
Switching jobs is hard for a ton of reasons.
We also do need people to operate the rail system. "Everybody just leaves and becomes a software engineer" isn't good for society.
- haswell 4y agoI think working in the tech bubble has really created some misunderstandings about the average worker’s ability to just up and leave when things get bad. With that said, I don’t think this is about everyone leaving as much as it is about forcing the rail industry to capitulate. But for the aforementioned reasons, this is unlikely to happen, and rail companies know that. It’s a really sad state of affairs, and I’m not sure what fixes it aside from drastic political shifts during elections, but even that seems highly questionable.
- lazide 4y agoThis has been going on for decades. The changes to the industry were in 94.
- Scoundreller 4y agoWe'll never have full self-driving trains with that attitude. I think I know someone that could start working on it.
- lazide 4y agoOne thing I learned a long time ago in ops is that if it doesn’t break (because someone sacrifices they’re well-being), then it won’t get fixed. The managers and leaders keep pushing things because they can.
- cnelsenmilt 4y agoAbsolutely. And union negotiations, and then a strike, are some ways that the workers can make it break.
- lazide 4y agoExcept when, as in this case, they are forbidden from striking by law. Which is a legislative form of ‘keep working your field peasant, or else.’
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