>You keep getting back to your experience as an on-site highly paid (compared to most folks) tech worker.
Yes, because you implied it came with respect. It doesn't always.
Yes, because you implied it came with respect. It doesn't always.
the distance between the two classes of Facebook workers can feel immense.
>I don't personally see a difference other than the average wage for what I do.
As a highly-paid tech contractor it is obvious on which side of that class divide you fall. Even though you were a contractor. So when you say that you were a contractor and were still respected that's not really the point. Of course you were respected, you're on the correct side of the class divide. That is the difference in respect here, not contract work per se, but the experience of being a poorly paid service worker who lives in a garage yet spends every day working at a company employing legions of young and wealthy programmers who live in fancy apartments. That's why she says: “We don’t live the dream. The techies are living the dream. It’s for them.” You're that techie, you're living that dream.
If the idea is just that Facebook employees should be polite and well-mannered two other types of workers in the building that makes sense.
Edit: I just don't get where the line is. If FB uses ChemLawn to fertilize the grounds, are they also responsible for those workers wage rates? What about the HVAC crew, building maintenance (assuming they work for, say, Smith Building Maintenance) ? If ADP does their payroll is FB responsible for those employees wage rate? Security guards? These food service employees work for a company that provides food for more than one company. I just don't get it. Why isn't their actual employer responsible for their wage rate?
Well, we'll see about that.
Being as, you know, it's not like companies such as Facebook have some inalienable right to exist, or anything like that.
EDIT: And I would go even further to say that your comments here are an amazing illustration of the justification that happens by those on the upper end. First through a hackneyed attempt at saying "I've been there. It's not that bad." Then through indifference or this sort of broad appeal to "that's just how the market works" or "it's not Facebooks's responsibility" as if poor people just pop out of the aether and it's not our society which creates and allows for poor people to even exist in the first place!
You're putting words in my mouth I never said. In quotes even. I feel like some kind of stand in Boogeyman for someone else that you are mad at.
I'm not arguing whether it is a problem. I'm arguing that FB isn't the right place to solve it.
But in practical terms -- this is basically saying it will never be solved at all.
But any "victory" with a corporate customer of their employer wouldn't help the guy down the street behind the counter at a BBQ restaurant, making less for similar work.
I would put more energy into the union mentioned in the article. Which could grow to have leverage beyond one situation.