“Are there union jobs in software engineering? What are they like?”
CS people in my experience are either like this or pretty disillusioned with the industry.
Newbies vs people who’ve been in the industry for more than a year basically.
That’s what I’ve been observing.
Propaganda is a hell of a drug
At least it seems the silicon valley ideology seemed to take a hit under Trump. Hopefully enough people can build off of that Alphabet Union thing and this Amazon warehouse union to further break down the propaganda inside their head, as well as provide them a place to go and understand what is wrong.
If you want to work extra why not just contrubute to the open-source version of whatever you’re working on?
Company would probably sue you lol (if they didn’t explicitly allow you to work on it).
That makes it even cooler, just use a pseudonym and 7 proxies and all that
I won’t even work 70 hours/week for myself lol. Why the fuck would I lick someone’s dirty boots?
If you work in IT, remember that office supplies that fit in your pocket are pretty expensive and no one actually keeps track of the HDMI cables.
This is why there are so many horror stories about game development, there are a ton of fresh CS grads who have the same attitude as OP and are massively exploited for it
A lot of people working in creative industries in general get exploited like that bc the capitalists take advantage of their passion like “well you should just be happy you’re able to work doing what you love! You gotta pay those dues and work for next to nothing or for exposure for a few years kid!”
