I feel like the entire US engineering industry is in it. My Swedish and German colleagues all have unions. One of my coworkers tried explaining to a Swede the other day how we have the “right to work” 😂😂 I was so embarrassed for him.
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pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
“I fight for the user” has been lurking in the hindbrains of so many tech workers since the Tron years, somehow nestling comfortably alongside of the idea that “I don’t need a union, I’m a temporarily embarrassed founder.”
Oof. I don’t like this sentence, because I’m in it.
OutDoeHoe@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Hey it’s you, the reason I fucked off from IT 22 years ago. Things are going exactly as I imagined
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I don’t get it, what does “a temporarily embarrassed founder” mean?
kazerniel@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s a reference to this quote:
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
It’s a combination of “temporarily embarrassed future billionaire” with the (mostly mythical) “garage software business founder”.
Many software programmers (including me) spent the first decade of our careers sure we would produce a world-shaking program in our garage, and then found a company to scale it to the world.
yamper@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“i would totally be a founder right now if it weren’t for [excuse xyz]”