4.8 • 625 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey there's shoper, you're listening to another episode of Shop Talk show. |
0:27.4 | I'm Dave in the Shed. |
0:29.4 | Rupert. |
0:29.7 | And with me is Chris in the office choir. |
0:32.4 | Hey, Chris, how are you doing today? |
0:33.7 | I'm doing just fine. |
0:34.9 | Thanks for asking. |
0:37.2 | Maybe a little follow-up, huh? We just saw, it was kind of a |
0:42.9 | bummer what happened to Band Camp, huh? We were just talking to Ethan about the, gosh, yeah. |
0:46.7 | About the, you know, unions and tech work and stuff. And Band Camp had a union that got recognized, but then the company sold. |
0:57.1 | And part of our messaging there was like, hey, look, it doesn't hurt your company and doesn't |
1:01.3 | mean that it's not going to sell. |
1:03.0 | Sometimes selling is, people think of it as bad because it's like, oh, it's got some new owner. |
1:07.7 | It's going to go to crap, you know? |
1:09.1 | But a lot of tech workers think of selling |
1:11.1 | as good because whatever, their stock vests then, and they make money and, you know, it's a little |
1:16.9 | bit of a mixed blessing, you know. But they were evidence that just having a union doesn't |
1:21.5 | necessarily hurt the ability to sell the company, although the new company grabs it and |
1:27.2 | huge layoffs immediately. |
1:30.1 | You know, your union can't prevent that, unfortunately. |
1:33.5 | And then the eight people that were elected as the union represented, all eight of them were |
1:37.8 | fired. |
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