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Comment by jjtheblunt | Hacker News Reader

> This is about fighting back to the tyranny of upper management

hardware engineering requires shared access to tens of millions of dollars of shared equipment.

disclaimer: ex Apple hardware engineer who used tens of millions of dollars of equipment.

Okay, so hardware engineers can work from the office. Having a single set of rules for everyone else that doesn’t need to come in is something I don’t agree with.

So don't work at Apple?

Their company, their rules.

Voicing dissatisfying as part of a mass popular outrage is a good way to get rules changed. Leaving a company also achieves that, but is a little more drastic.

I keep coming back and reading your idea about "mass popular outrage".

I wonder if that pattern has almost been commodotized, because of social media, to the point where it has less impact than a few years earlier.

I've long-considered that social media outrage, even something tech-specific like blog articles getting passed around on HN, is sadly sometimes the most effective form of customer service on these huge platforms that have mostly automated support:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17689749

Oh, hey, over a decade ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2493645#2494528

As far as it being commoditized, I think it might work a little differently in examples like the OP where the outraged people is the workforce itself. It's a more focused audience.

My labor, my rules. How about we compromise?

If you don’t like it, there’s the door? That’s a terrible solution to a problem. The my way or the highway approach assumes there is no room for growth or understanding of other positions. This is the root of no-compromise.

That’s the point

What are you getting out of posting that comment?

Do you think choosing employment based on conditions of employment has just never occurred to people on this website?

"Their company, their rules." Yeah, no shit. Great observation.

Woah get out of here with your nuanced approach, this is the Hackernews comment section.

The OP literally quotes Craig!

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