Can Engineers Stage a Coup and Take Over Their Company?
Can Engineers Stage a Coup and Take Over Their Company?
Insider threat is always an important topic in cybersecurity. We often focus on one or a few engineers stealing data and trying to bribe…
They should let the designers and writers help too, so we don’t end up with more shitty AI art.
Gotta follow Bethesda's lead.
Bethesda Game Studios is officially the first Microsoft game developer to full unionize under the Communication Workers of America (CWA), forming a "wall-to-wall" union of developers including artists, engineers, programmers and designers. Microsoft has recognized the union.
Did you notice homegirl backing it up for chet in the hat, top left? Just above the unconcerned guy with airpods in working diligently on his spreadsheet. See also: Daddy double-legs and halfskirt/halfjeans.
It's pretty much got office chairs down though. Guess that's something.
It's like "Forming an union - a story"
Fascinating idea. One suggestion though:
When selecting your "coup team" avoid immigrants and people with families. Back when I was young, single, and living in my home country, I could have been convinced to go along with something like this, but now I'm living abroad with a wife & kid. The risk is sufficiently high that I might be compelled to snitch for fear that I might be deported or jailed.
You want ambitious, charismatic, high-skill, and risk-friendly people for this kind of job.
I'll be cheering you on from the sidelines though.
Like at Boeing?
I'd literally fucking hire someone to wipe these people off the planet for doing this. No one is going to rationally negotiate with these people.
If you want to stage a coup, like realistically, gather the necessary capital and attempt a purchase of shares. There's a growing trend of owners of companies cashing out and selling the company to employee held trusts. This is rife with risk, and conflicts of interest too, but there's actually legitimate ways of doing this, not holding people hostage. I remember a boss of mine from several years ago walking someone out, and afterwards being like that fucking sucks, I liked that guy, now we are in trouble, and he's going to be very hard to replace. But nobody threatens me. This story reminds me of that.