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Re:Meta has started its latest round of layoffs, focusing on... by pydry on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @09:39AM (#36057895)
Strikes are probably the least effective tactic for a tech union. Software isn't a coal mine or a railway. Plenty of products have glided along for a while with very few people maintaining them. Sometimes even zero.

I imagine if we do see tech collective action it'll probably be done quietly in the form of silently exploding technical debt, with documentation that misleads more than it informs and products that collapse under the weight of their own unmaintainability.

Re:Meta has started its latest round of layoffs, focusing on... by mrguyorama on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @01:27PM (#36061401)
Most companies don't have twitter levels of overengineering.

Work to rule would kill any tech company. Imagine your biggest contract having to wait 2 weeks before you can fix the bug that is crashing their business.

Imagine zero tech support because unpaid after hours tech support is horse shit.