Executing a Mass Departmental Exodus in the Workplace?

rerunn asks: "The recent story about the consultants from JBOSS walking out couldn't have had better timing. I'll save the drama and cut to the scenario: You and a few close co-workers make up the core grunts of 'the department'. The company relies heavily on your department for many services, some of which, other departments cannot provide. You like your job, it provides great satisfaction. Suddenly, the company realizes its in deep financial shit, and starts making cut backs. This impacts the department. You suddenly find yourself working 50-60 hour weeks, put on call with no compensation, given unreasonable amounts of work and generally treated like dirt. You get the feeling that the company is just going to take advantage of you no matter how and what happens. You get together with the rest of the department for a 'fsck this company' meeting and decide to walk out. Have you ever done this?? (We are so close!) What was the outcome?"

Comments

Re:Result

[Anonymous Coward]

"Actually I manage to work around 6 month a year, and get 6 month unemployed since 4 years."

That's just asking for Trollbait moderation. The rest of the country pays taxes so you can sit around and have a "good time"? Asshole.

A genuine american company would...

[jeanluc.bonnafoux]

1) Hire a dozen of clever indian developers, they will cost the price of all the small US team,
2) Fire the whole US team shouting too much,
3) Money !
Hey, guys, this *is* capitalism !

Re:Blackball

[praedor]

God! What PLANET are you people from? Have you NEVER heard anything about UNIONS? This is precisely the point of UNIONS. They are GOOD, they are RIGHT, they are on your side. The company (any company) is not sacrosanct with the right to do anything, demand anything, from its employees. You have rights and unions work to protect those rights.

How is the exploitation and abuse of workers today, regardless of the enterprise (hi tech is not magically apart or separate), OK and not deserving protection by unionization but the abuse of yesteryear, often the SAME TYPE OF ABUSE/EXPLOITATION, was properly addressed by unions? You illogical, business-worshipping fools and hypocrits.

Workers, regardless of the enterprise, gain leverage and protection of their rights, improving the lot of ALL of you, vs the excesses of management demands by unionization. It is democratic (vote-based) and protective (you get some protection for financial loss during prolonged strikes). You are also working for your greater, collective good. Better pay/equal pay for equal work. Reasonable hours w/fair, reasonable, and just compensation for overtime, and protection from retaliation by management.

What a load of overprivaledged, money-worshipping (money = right), screw-the-worker people you all are.