Re: We cannot let upper management dictate how we use our labor.
This must be what this 'entitled' business that I keep hearing about is. People go through high school arguing the toss with the school system about grades and classes, browbeating faculty that hasn't got the time or effort to push back ("they're figure it out eventually"). Then they go to college, something that they're paying for (dammit!) so they expect the college to provide a caring, comfortable, environment and a decent result/qualification if they perform as expected. Then they get a job. This is where the rubber should meet the road but companies like Google have made their working environment as collegiate as possible so the penny doesn't drop. Like Truman Burbank in "The Truman Show" they sail away into the sunset until "clunk", the boat hits the wall around their bubble. Its a job. You sell your labor to an employer who resells it at a profit -- its what makes you a prole. The employer values your labor based on scarcity and resale value. There's no 'fairness', you just have to figure out how to live in this environment.
(...and if you want to form a union talk to people who are union organizers first. Its a legal minefield and unaided you are certain to blow yourself up.)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
