<story><title>Verizon Workers Strike on East Coast After Deadline Passes</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/14/business/verizon-workers-strike.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=first-column-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news&amp;_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tsunamifury</author><text>Good.  If only tech workers had the spine to do the same after finding out their CEOs had conspired to suppress their wages and targeted those who wanted to leave...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ASinclair</author><text>If only we&amp;#x27;d band together to kill open office plans.</text></comment>
<story><title>Verizon Workers Strike on East Coast After Deadline Passes</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/14/business/verizon-workers-strike.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=first-column-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news&amp;_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tsunamifury</author><text>Good.  If only tech workers had the spine to do the same after finding out their CEOs had conspired to suppress their wages and targeted those who wanted to leave...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryao</author><text>Technology workers tend to value interesting problems more than money. In my case, my motivation has always been trying to make a positive impact on the world rather than money. I have turned down plenty of job offers, including ones that pay better than I am paid now. I even spent two years unemployed because I felt that that being an independent OSS that worked for free allowed me to have a greater impact on people&amp;#x27;s lives than I could have at any of the jobs that had been offered to me during that time.&lt;p&gt;That gamble paid off because it enabled me to help lay the groundwork for adoption of ZFS by major Linux distributions at a time when the amount of development to make ZFS production ready on Linux was more than employers were willing to stomach. The integrity of the world&amp;#x27;s data is better off because of it and in hindsight, nothing else that I could have done would have had such an impact. My OSS development had started as a hobby, but at some point, I began to realize that it could make a positive impact on the world and focused entirely on it, with ZFS taking the bulk of my time. That serendipitously resulted in job offers where everything I do would be OSS and I could continue working on the ZFSOnLinux code as part of it, which I had not anticipated.&lt;p&gt;I was lucky enough to have supporting parents that I could fall back on for me to pursue that. Not everyone does and a certain amount of money is definitely important, especially for those with dependents. If people who need it find they are not compensated well, they can find an employer that does compensate them well. Trying to force an employer that does not value you like they should to behave otherwise instead of finding one that does is masochistic.</text></comment>