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Re:Netflix tells employees they may need to work on titles t... by Lifelarper on Friday May 13, 2022 @07:45PM (#31373713)
In an industry notorious for jobhopping what leverage do you actually think these well compensated employees have? There's a horde of people willing to replace them if they wish to take an ideological stance and quit.

They can always start their own streaming service.

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Re:Netflix tells employees they may need to work on titles t... by EddieDante on Friday May 13, 2022 @07:58PM (#31373785)
None, because techies won't unionize.
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Re:Netflix tells employees they may need to work on titles t... by jhugo on Friday May 13, 2022 @09:09PM (#31374170)
What? This has nothing to do with unions. If enough engineers don't want to work on $x, Netflix won't be able to work on $x. If there are enough, they'll find replacements for ones that leave and they'll be able to work on it.

The situation would be identical with unions, unless you think engineers who would be fine working on $x would be OK with their union deciding for them that they shouldn't. More likely they just wouldn't be members of that union.

I never understand why people want to inject an often corrupt, additional layer of insane bureaucracy into a work environment where they already have a lot of leverage. Techies don't unionise for very good reasons!

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