Union jobs seem to apply to specific trades. I haven’t heard the word uttered in my entire last decade of jumping between tech/finance sector work, and I wouldn’t dare utter it.
Not gonna dox myself, but I’m not in tech, but I am an engineer. No reason they shouldn’t be more widespread, beyond decades of anti-union rhetoric and propaganda.
Unrelated-ish, but the job that treated me the best and gave me raises at the drop of a hat, also was the one that betrayed me the hardest and set me up to choose between replacing my team of a dozen people with foreign workers, or lose my own job.
It felt like something out of Better Call Saul, the way they “suggested” that I “look into the option” of outsourcing our team, and when I said that I didn’t think it would save us as much money as keeping a domestic team who knows what they’re doing, they nodded and suddenly let me go a couple months later after treating me like a rock star up until that moment.
They did eventually fire everyone and move operations to India.
I’m not deluded, I just don’t have a choice, not every field or industry has the option of rallying together the glorious people’s union when it’s just an assortment of diverse teams working on specific areas of the company. I’ve never felt any kinship or closeness to the CEO’s and CFO’s, my relationship with my work is just work.
Union jobs seem to apply to specific trades. I haven’t heard the word uttered in my entire last decade of jumping between tech/finance sector work, and I wouldn’t dare utter it.
Not gonna dox myself, but I’m not in tech, but I am an engineer. No reason they shouldn’t be more widespread, beyond decades of anti-union rhetoric and propaganda.
Unrelated-ish, but the job that treated me the best and gave me raises at the drop of a hat, also was the one that betrayed me the hardest and set me up to choose between replacing my team of a dozen people with foreign workers, or lose my own job.
It felt like something out of Better Call Saul, the way they “suggested” that I “look into the option” of outsourcing our team, and when I said that I didn’t think it would save us as much money as keeping a domestic team who knows what they’re doing, they nodded and suddenly let me go a couple months later after treating me like a rock star up until that moment.
They did eventually fire everyone and move operations to India.
It’s because those at the top have deluded you into thinking you have it better than them, and you don’t “need” it.
You have far more in common with the during mopping the floors than you do with those at the top.
I’m not deluded, I just don’t have a choice, not every field or industry has the option of rallying together the glorious people’s union when it’s just an assortment of diverse teams working on specific areas of the company. I’ve never felt any kinship or closeness to the CEO’s and CFO’s, my relationship with my work is just work.