The lowest organizational hurdle to clear in workplace organizing is using communication channels not visible to management, yet it's amazing how almost no tech workers bother with this step. Reminds me of when Googlers tried to book a conference room to listen to a union rep.https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/status/1432769058823282688 …
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There were even people like this at Yahoo, back in the day when it was run by a tanned Hollywood CEO who I'm not sure had ever used a computer. They would tell you in full sincerity they "bled purple" and were committed to changing the world through whatever it was Yahoo did
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This is what I mean by "there's no IQ limit on stupid". The most frightfully intelligent people can be dumb as rocks about the broader implications of their work, and via selection effect that is the kind of employee who mainly fills the ranks of Big Tech. Good luck organizing!
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Greatest minds on the planet, making sure their employer knows exactly which Googlers met with a union representative by signing them in to the corporate tracking system.pic.twitter.com/I5eUNP948c
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Complaining that a large corporation retaliated against your efforts to organize is like being upset that an undercover cop attended your political meeting. You're complaining about a metric of *success* that it was your job to plan ahead for, unless you lacked any seriousness.
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@crschmidt's example here is different from my own example upthread (we made fun of the Googlers and forced them to leave campus to talk to the union rep). I'd be very interested to hear how many other examples there are of this kind of high-surveillance union drive.Show this thread
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I know this is a tough one for someone who never worked there, but for many years, internally it did not behave like one in many ways. Signed: A guy who raised $4,000 severance for a chef who was about to be fired for baking Free Tibetan gojiberry pie.
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I think got to watch a founder denounce authoritarianism and the other employees who came up to defend a government currently engaged in locking an entire ethnic group in a city. It wasn't perfect (not even close), but you weren't there either.
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Most of those employees never remember the past and are thus surprised when a corp acts like a corp,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_Litigation …
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I am faaar from SV but in 2007 at OSCON I randomly had lunch w 2 Google engineers who were *giddy* about the tech challenges re: shadow ad tracking profiles for non-G users. The iPhone was like 6mos old. How is anyone shocked at this point?
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It takes time to shave off the confirmation bias and illusion and excitement of starting a new job and start seeing problems. Typically two years in my experience (!).
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