Unions & IT
Raji previously posted about IT professional & unions. I wanted to post my thought about that and had drafted the post quite some time ago, here it goes
"Software profeesionals are individualists.Adam Smith's statement that humans act in self interest might not be a very good assumption to make in general but this assumption holds very good for the software professional. They are ever ready to beat their colleagues( Impress their boss more than their colleague's ) and rise up the career leader and get a more hefty packet. Most of the them like to work alone and are very aloof. The very idea of group, social is alien to them. Thats why you won't find software professional forming unions.
Well that could be a conclusion coming out of analysing situation oversimplistically but nonetheless the statement can't be thrown out of the window totally, it does carry some amount of weight."
Today I read an article in fortune by David Kickpatrick, titled "Meetup and Cyber Rabble-rousing" , some excerpts
' In several Meetup groups in Bangalore, India, of which there are now 100, he says that software programmers are working together to improve their working conditions—it’s a nascent move toward collective bargaining. “When people get together, they see what they have in common and talk often turns to 'how do we make things better?’" Heiferman says. "These are like the new unions.” '
Hmmm !!! that's interesting !! Maybe I am wrong, just maybe !
For quite some time I wanted to checkout some of the RedHat User Meetup Group to find out how good the idea of meetup works , I might check out these as well.
- Rajan
"Software profeesionals are individualists.Adam Smith's statement that humans act in self interest might not be a very good assumption to make in general but this assumption holds very good for the software professional. They are ever ready to beat their colleagues( Impress their boss more than their colleague's ) and rise up the career leader and get a more hefty packet. Most of the them like to work alone and are very aloof. The very idea of group, social is alien to them. Thats why you won't find software professional forming unions.
Well that could be a conclusion coming out of analysing situation oversimplistically but nonetheless the statement can't be thrown out of the window totally, it does carry some amount of weight."
Today I read an article in fortune by David Kickpatrick, titled "Meetup and Cyber Rabble-rousing" , some excerpts
' In several Meetup groups in Bangalore, India, of which there are now 100, he says that software programmers are working together to improve their working conditions—it’s a nascent move toward collective bargaining. “When people get together, they see what they have in common and talk often turns to 'how do we make things better?’" Heiferman says. "These are like the new unions.” '
Hmmm !!! that's interesting !! Maybe I am wrong, just maybe !
For quite some time I wanted to checkout some of the RedHat User Meetup Group to find out how good the idea of meetup works , I might check out these as well.
- Rajan
posted by Rajan @ 9:23 PM
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