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This type of comment shows up on every single post about unions or layoffs. The answer is always the same: It might take you and a friend a weekend to build a
by malfist 2y ago
This type of comment shows up on every single post about unions or layoffs.
The answer is always the same: It might take you and a friend a weekend to build a [insert company] clone, but by the time you need to support the level of customers as [insert company] it'll certainly need a lot more work.
- ImJamal 2y agoHow many of the support staff are in the union? The union is for the tech workers.
- consteval 2y agoRight, to deliver their product over a tech channel to their many millions of customers. No, that's not easy. Yes, that's necessarily complex. You and your buddies can build a crossword or whatever the hell in a weekend. You can't deliver is to 100 million people tomorrow, while also maintaining one of the US' largest newpapers online.
- fragmede 2y agoFor a crossword, which shards pretty trivially, while already having a database team to deal with that side of things? Large orgs move slowly so there are many reasons why you couldn't write something over the weekend and deploy it that quickly, but the challenges at that level are bureaucratic, not technical.
- ImJamal 2y agoI asked how many of the support staff are in the tech union. Did you reply to the wrong person?
- tacticalturtle 2y agoAdditionally, we have no idea what kind of internal legacy services need to be maintained inside the organization - I’m guessing the Tech guild doesn’t just cover the externally facing website. You could probably build something with modern technologies to satisfy internal requirements, but plenty of businesses look at the risk of moving to something new vs something that’s worked for a decade, and justifiably say let’s just pay the maintenance cost.