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Comment by fatbird | Hacker News Reader

The combined will of the employees is much less meaningful when they're saying "DO IT OR WE'LL TAKE AN ATTRACTIVE OFFER THAT'S ON THE TABLE."

I'd have been more impressed by their unity if it would have meant actually losing their jobs.

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Why are you only impressed if the power of employees comes with high cost to their career? When employers exercise their power capriciously, they often do so without any material consequences. I'm more impressed with employees doing the same, i.e., exercising power with impunity.

A decision with a cost is always more meaningful than one without.

That's only a measure of the strength of one's conviction, and is unrelated to whether they chose the right thing, or for the right reasons.

Power without cost is true power. I don't care if their decision is meaningful or not. I'm happy when labor can hold true power, even just for once.

I'm pretty sure they weren't thinking of how to impress fatbird on HN when they were deciding which boss they like best, the old one or an unknown new one.

They were about to quit... how much more should they lose their jobs to impress you?

He meant if they were to lose their jobs and then have to put actual effort in to get a new one, like most people.

I do not think it is hard for any of them to get a new job and they would be flooooooded with offers if the opened their linkedin

Exactly. Most people are not in that situation and therefore cannot threaten to leave so easily.

They were about to quit *to work for Microsoft.

They were about to laterally transfer to a new organization headed by the CEO they revered, with promises of no lost compensation. The only change would be the work address. Hardly a sacrifice sanctifying a principled position.

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