This is kind of true, but it depends on risking your financial stability in the short term. Better to get a bunch of IT workers on board and then strike. What are they going to do, not have IT? they’d be out of business in a month.
Good luck hiring scabs when they don’t have the passwords…
Better to get a bunch of IT workers on board and then strike
Why would you do that? That is by definition, a hostile work environment.
Find a place where you don't need to pull a bunch of shenanigans to get what you want.
Especially in the IT field, you have a massive amount of options. People tend to only think about FAANG and friends, but there's millions of SMB's out there that need IT of all levels, pay well and offer generous benefits.
I think they were offering that as a solution to the difficulty of finding new equivalent jobs quickly.
While it's true people can "just quit"... there's usually more factors that make that very difficult, like having enough money saved up to last until you get a new job, and actually finding a replacement job that pays enough to let them keep a similar quality of life as they have now.
Better to get a bunch of IT workers on board and then strike. What are they going to do, not have IT? they’d be out of business in a month.
Last year there were nearly 100k tech layoffs in the US, the year prior nearly 200k. Every tech opening is saturated with a few hundred resumes. Do you really think your company couldn’t hire replacements?
Good luck hiring scabs when they don’t have the passwords…
Shame on your company if they don’t control security to prevent this. Shame on you if you are willing to withhold more than your labor in a strike situation. There is work stoppage and there is sabotage. If you are not relinquishing the only set of keys to the factory, that borders on intentional sabotage.
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This is kind of true, but it depends on risking your financial stability in the short term. Better to get a bunch of IT workers on board and then strike. What are they going to do, not have IT? they’d be out of business in a month.
Good luck hiring scabs when they don’t have the passwords…
Why would you do that? That is by definition, a hostile work environment.
Find a place where you don't need to pull a bunch of shenanigans to get what you want.
Especially in the IT field, you have a massive amount of options. People tend to only think about FAANG and friends, but there's millions of SMB's out there that need IT of all levels, pay well and offer generous benefits.
I think they were offering that as a solution to the difficulty of finding new equivalent jobs quickly.
While it's true people can "just quit"... there's usually more factors that make that very difficult, like having enough money saved up to last until you get a new job, and actually finding a replacement job that pays enough to let them keep a similar quality of life as they have now.
You’re just making excuses for laziness.
It has never in all human history been easier to find a new job than it has been in the past few years.
I think a hostile work environment might be a fun outcome of ‘return to office’ mandates.
Last year there were nearly 100k tech layoffs in the US, the year prior nearly 200k. Every tech opening is saturated with a few hundred resumes. Do you really think your company couldn’t hire replacements?
Shame on your company if they don’t control security to prevent this. Shame on you if you are willing to withhold more than your labor in a strike situation. There is work stoppage and there is sabotage. If you are not relinquishing the only set of keys to the factory, that borders on intentional sabotage.