You hit the nail on the head there. There is an unholy alliance between most IT managers and the companies (not just Microsoft) that sell them software. There is little incentive for a large corporate IT department to trim its budget except in lean times.
I think that a union running as unions did in the last 40 years is a repugnant idea to most developers, who only want to work, and be paid fairly for an honest days work. Unions today have a stigma associated with them of people who want to become lazier and lazier and get paid more and more. I'm not saying this is a fair perception, but it is certainly wide-spread.
If a union could be formed like the textile unions which at least initially fixed horrendous working conditions, that would be a union that IT workers probably WOULD be interested in. Obviously we don't have spinning machinery around that would chew up limbs, but a reasonable work environment is a reasonable demand. Employers are mostly concerned with the bottom line. If they can get more from their develoeprs by giving them great benefits then that's what they'll do. On the other hand, if they can get away with being slave drivers...well, that's what ea_spouse wrote about in the first place.
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The whole point about what Bill and Dave did was that the engineers were in charge. Hopefully there will be some return to that.
They did save alot of money because of the merger, but they also let alot of peolpe go and lost alot of market share
I guess they saw it coming., the page was different this morning
Dude, that was nice.
You hit the nail on the head there. There is an unholy alliance between most IT managers and the companies (not just Microsoft) that sell them software. There is little incentive for a large corporate IT department to trim its budget except in lean times.
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If a union could be formed like the textile unions which at least initially fixed horrendous working conditions, that would be a union that IT workers probably WOULD be interested in. Obviously we don't have spinning machinery around that would chew up limbs, but a reasonable work environment is a reasonable demand. Employers are mostly concerned with the bottom line. If they can get more from their develoeprs by giving them great benefits then that's what they'll do. On the other hand, if they can get away with being slave drivers...well, that's what ea_spouse wrote about in the first place.