Fellow tech workers: The librarians are roasting us on Mastodon and we have no plausible defense

@mcc in our defense, librarians have an unfair advantage here (they understand things about history and we don’t)

@mcc @glyph

You may have something there.

Librarians: "we should learn from the past."
Programmers: "I dunno, try rebooting it, see if it works properly this time."

@mcc

co-founder of freelens union, Germany here:

build unions first and then defend
cause Yes We Can

@mcc ha! I joined a union¹ when starting my first (tech) job, I'm un-roasted!

(But I don't do any union work, I just give them some money. And I wouldn't be surprised if I'm the only one in my company who is part of a union, so in reality I'm not really "unionizing" that much…)

¹technically a "Gewerkschaft", the German equivalent of a union

@Larymir @sl007 Europe does some things right that North America does not