At this point I seriously wonder why people are still using discord.
(www.theverge.com)
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (38)
sorted by:
Its amazing that people don't realize that to the company a Union is a direct attack, and that its very formation is you saying "we are arming ourselves to become big enough to be a threat to you to get our way."
You can fancy it up all you want, and in principle it might even be the morally good-er option against the horrific corporation, but from their end its always something that needs to be stomped out before it becomes a problem they can never be rid of.
And all the terminology and laws these unions try to use are from the days when people were actually being enslaved or worked to literal death by their companies, which is just disrespectful to act like your boss demanding crunch overtime (on a delayed product) or you just doing your fucking job at all is equivalent. Especially with a job you can just leave, unlike the Company Store ones of the past.
They won't leave though, because they are working for probably one of the better paying and provided for in the industry and will have their name on one of the biggest games ever. So they are in a place of extreme privilege compared to most, but still want more.
I have never worked for an anti union company that didn't need to treat their employees with basic respect. Odd how the companies that treat employees well either have a union, or their employees don't feel they need a union.
I've never met a Union at any company I worked for that provided anything for me other than the promise of "you can never be fired, ever, no matter how much you suck." Something I didn't need because I'm not a nigger tier worker.
Any wage increases we got, were long lost on Dues, any protection offered was also used to protect legitimately problematic employees, and any time I wanted to work on my own volition (to say, help get to work faster) I was reprimanded because Union rules.
Unions in theory are good, and Corporations will absolutely abuse their employees if allowed. But most Unions that exist in reality are just bloated bureaucracy that are just fucking you in a different manner.
Unions were a response to conditions that ceased to exist decades ago.
Union dues were designed for union members for emergencies. If you want to see how good a union is, look at how much they give away lobbying while asking union members to beg each other for PTO during an emergency.
To stop it, you have to put a stop to it. Teachers unions, and police unions are the worst for that behavior. But, all the union members care about is their pension, so they let it happen.