nearly 700 workers will hold demonstrations on Zoom and outside the company’s headquarters
so glad to read the strike will allow WFH via Zoom
Honestly, depending on the particulars of how that type of thing fits into the bigger picture, that could unironically be good?
Physical protests are the most visible form of protest currently, but any way for immunocompromised people and others for whom it’s not safe to be out in the crowd to still contribute is probably a good thing.
And I’m sure the internet is clever enough to come up with a way to amplify those voices effectively eventually.
I’m picturing them deploying drones they can zoom call into so they can strike from home and also attack scabs like in The Birds
This is a really innovative way to reinforce their message that WFH is just as good.
I can only imagine the hellish commute a NYT tech worker must endure. Let them work from wherever the fuck they want.
many cities have absolutely terribad traffic.
That’s because cities are often under the populace estimate to be taking the transit they provide. Wfh for jobs that shouldn’t require someone to clog the system further and be forced to add to emissions would be the easiest and most efficient fix.
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NYC has a housing crisis and MTA is frankly quite shit compared to most public transportation in the world. They have a lot of lines into Manhatten, which is good for NYT, but no circumferential traffic, and delays are frequent. MTA is massively underfunded.
I think you mean corrupted…
Tech workers often don’t make enough money for it to make sense to live in the city long term unless it’s really important to them. If they have kids, this goes double. A lot of people commute from upstate and that is a hellish commute, even by train.
Upstate commutes can definitely be rough. But it isn’t the only ‘affordable’ places. Getting towards the end of subway lines in Brooklyn and Queens can be relatively affordable.
I live in a 3 bedroom in Queens with a 3k rent and only 5 minute walk to the M. I don’t commute but my partner does and it isn’t too bad. There were other 3 bedrooms off the L we looked at this summer that would have been a much faster commute and some where down at like 2800.
Jesus christ those prices are horrendous.
That’s double my monthly mortgage
You have a $1400 mortgage? Where?
I have a ~1000 mortgage on a 15 year loan for a 3 bedroom. Ohio.
Central PA
Mine is 985 for a 1800sqft house
WTF that’s supposed to be cheap?? I think you’ve been living in NYC too long. Your perception is skewed.
It is clear this general news sub has no frame of reference for NYC. A quick glassdoor check says a software engineer makes 100-160k base, with 25-50k bonus.
Most tech workers probably live in the suburbs and the public transit from the burbs into the city both suck and are insanely expensive.
In NYC? No.
So because they have high salaries they need to work in an office? I’m not seeing how that’s related.
So because they have high salaries they need to work in an office? I’m not seeing how that’s related.
Your comment is not related. This is an irrelevant take away. This comment is a thread from:
“I can only imagine the hellish commute a NYT tech worker must endure. Let them work from wherever the fuck they want.”
No one is talking about salary. It’s about the realty that subway (not to mention citi bike and the occasional uber) are easy ways to get around and not “hellish.”
You want to know how long my commute is each morning? It’s 30 seconds. Working remotely will do that for you. Anything else in comparison would feel hellish, yes, and I even used to commute to a job that was 15 minutes away from where I live as my first dev job.
I am high salary work from home as well. I get it. But you did not respond to a thread about commute time. You responded about salary.
Dude. Have you ever ridden the NY subway? It sucks.
And the bigger issue is the amount of time taken out of the day by a commute when it’s not needed for the vast majority of tech workers.
It’s a 24/7 subway. It is under funded. It’s gotten worse with distressed folks. But it’s pretty good relative to a lot of other US metros. And commutes always take time. So you can’t fault a method of commuting for that.
Look at shit like the green line in Boston or all these other half assed light rail solutions that share space with car traffic and get held up for auto congestion and traffic lights. NYC subway doesn’t have that.
The subway does not suck. I hate using it, but that’s not what they care about. It’s about moving mass not comfort
I feel guilty. Without a commute I haven’t read this ever growing stack of New Yorkers and The Atlantic. I’m joking, but serious. Car commute is terrible. When you commute on half decent public transit, you can do shit and was kind of a part of my day to day rhythm. On good days it was almost meditative.
But seriously, who the fuck are these trolls suggesting real tech workers don’t live in NYC. Yeah, the dream is actually living in Jersey City said no one that has money in NYC
Yes please don’t come to Jersey city. The PATH is the stuff of commuting nightmares.
I don’t know why I said Jersey City while thinking of my friends in Montclaire, but I’ll stand by my original comment. Stop trying to get me to visit your apartment on a weekend train schedule, bro.
A half day strike is not enough, telling them ahead of time how long your strike will last is not how to do it.
It’s fine for the first time, as long as it’s followed up with the threat of an indefinite strike
Fuck yeah. Stay strong.
I got spam from zoom telling me how to use their tools to better work from home less than a couple of weeks after zoom announced a mandatory return to work policy.
Great, another NYT paywall…
well thats not the full strike, many are striking from home
IMO that whole paper has been on strike since A.G. Sulzberger took over.
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