A Day Late

Philip Greenspun has an excellent post about IBM’s effort to move jobs overseas.

…An American has a First Amendment right to free speech. A corporate slave, however, generally forfeits his right to write about things that happen in his workplace as a condition of his employment and as a condition of receiving serverance pay after he is fired. Because the typical corporate slave spends 60 hours per week commuting and working effectively this means that he has no right to write about anything that happens to him for most of his waking hours. If the slave wants to get promoted he probably is wisest not writing or saying anything too controversial even if it does not regard work…

So true! Have I ever mentioned how much I dislike the cubicle environment? On a related note, I was looking at Yahoo!’s job openings the other day and discovered that all but a few were located in India (I only searched for technical jobs). With the way the technical job market has been in the last few years, things may be going from bad to worse.

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