Comment on Tech Workers Can Still Fight Silicon Valley’s Overlords
MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 1 year agoyou should try to get off of your imaginary high horse or you might hurt yourself.
A strike is a refusal to commit labour to the company. Same as not doing a good job. In japan the ticket checkers had a strike where they did their job as usual but did not collect the payment for issuing tickets. THAT was considered a strike.
why must quiet quitting not be considered too? We don’t participate in whatever greedy venture by doing the bare minimum.
Because when they did that, it was actively less than the bare minimum. If you do the bare minimum, you’re still doing your job. Hence, not a strike.
You also aren’t organized, which is another good reason to not call it a strike. A strike isn’t a few workers doing how they feel like.
In America, when you strike you put up a picket line. You tell the company, this is what we want, and will do nothing for you until you meet our demands. And you do it together.
If you still get paid for a job not well done… it’s still hurts the company. Believe me, there has been an attack on tech workers by the industry. Firing people during record profits, using LLMs to upset the negotiating power of artists and software people alike, not giving inflation adjusted pay hikes, etc. You can even see the billionaire owned media grind their gears trying to come up with words to discredit workers doing their bare-minimum such as “quiet quitting”.
It shouldn’t be a conspiracy theory to claim that a few people control the reins of a lot of workers… in reality it’s a community of few thousand billionaires cooperating to oppress workers.
A strike is a specific thing. That you do as part of a unit.
does not mean we are not protesting.
But that doesn’t make it a strike either.
Not everything that hurts the company is a strike.
A strike is a group based action in which you refuse to do your job while demanding to get some level concessions before you’ll go back to work. Quiet quiting fails the organization aspect, and the demand aspect.
We just consider organizing as just quietly aligning our wallets and behaviours without being overt about it
That’s not the same type of organizing that needs to take place for something to be considered a strike.
I am sure there are a lot of organization for software developers for people who do want to be loud about it too.
When they are, then it may be considered a strike.
demonsword@lemmy.world 1 year ago
…except you don’t do it individually, you should do it collectivelly, else it won’t make any lasting difference and will probably get you fired