• rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    If that happens, they are going to see a lot of things seemingly from the past connected to union activity though.

    Not just strike breakers being hired (some of tech work is not that demanding in expertise, think typical Hindu web devs), but also actual spies, saboteurs, hitmen being involved, propaganda attacks, possibly legal attempts to bust unions and use of force. And, of course, crucial positions in union bureaucracy becoming attractive for organized crime (which likely has very few of people associated with it ever convicted, as in mostly invisible until it’s too late).

    Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do it. Just the more adult level of the game. Considering that the tech industry is at the core of our civilization now, and considering its profits, this can get as historic as battle of the Blair mountain.

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      this can’t happen because the kill switch activates after 72 hours and “order 66” initiates, plunging the whole stack into lockdown and the org into absolute chaos.

      hope there were backups you strike busting pieces of shit.

      don’t fuck with IT professionals. you take away the only fulfillment we get out of life and you will come to personally understand the meaning behind, “there are worse fates than death”

      apes strong together.

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        1 hour ago

        I agree, this particular trait of today’s tech industry in this particular case works in our favor.

        For other political and social factors - not so much.

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      6 hours ago

      One new difference in our favor: we can reasonably have meetings online, no longer needing a large shared space.