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Software developer by day, insomniac by night. Send me pictures of baby bats to make my day.

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  • That’s not how it works here. Sounds like your unions are useless and need to be remade. We generally have large unions covering entire sectors. Some work better than others, naturally, they are human organisations after all. Ultimately, thanks to them we don’t have things like a legally mandated minimum wage and such.

    There’s a big push among workers to make a switch over to a 4 day work week. Naturally the work buyers are pushing against that, but given that there’s been way too long since any similar change has been made, and productivity has gone up as much as it has, it’s long since due. Honestly, workers should be rioting in the streets at this point.


  • I don’t see how those are mutually exclusive. Where I live the guaranteed raises are negotiated by the work seller and the work buyer unions, but we still have individual salary discussions (which can be with or without union support, of course) where you can negotiate further raises. I’ve never heard of unions getting a cut from one’s raise before.

    Unions aren’t supposed to be a they, they’re supposed to be an us. They’re workers joining together to be able to negotiate with buyers of work on more equal footing about everything that pertains to the work life. You might be able to get better deals individually for yourself, but you’ll never be able to do things like negotiate down to a 4 day work-week for your entire company, or everyone in your sector by yourself. That’s the work of unions.








  • I try to push on the maintenance aspect. Developing something new is easy, and my company does do that, but the group I’m in is primarily doing maintenance on existing software. Bug fixes, feature additions, etc. If we generate applications entirely using LLMs, none of us will be experts on the applications we push to the customers.

    They push corpo buzzwords like “responsibility”, but who takes responsibility when no one has done the work to begin with? It feels like a liability nightmare, and the idea of sitting there cleaning slopcode just isn’t very appealing to me.