Worse and Better
Well, I do thank you for the honest post, I enjoyed it. However, the one point to which I contend is that things are not as they were earlier this decade or the last even, actually they are not the same as they were last year. The economy is still stalling and the call for IT is not what it once was. I really want to agree with you that the individual has power here, but it's an unrecognized power. When I leave an organization I do believe I am good enough at what I do that it hurts that organization even though the place I leave has no idea that this is the case. See, I hear from the people who do the work that it did hurt the company, but executives are too far detached from that world so they never know what they lost, so my leaving does little good for them on any term while it used to do something for myself. Now that situation has become a double negative since leaving may no longer bode me any good nor do anything for the company, actually it may help them find someone cheaper even though the replacement will not be as good as I was. But they don't see that, to them one techie is just like another.
Well, I may defend the reasons to unionize or form a guild, yet I see the realities of the situation and see the potential of corruption when it will likely be done in a way that is not thought out. But that is the way of the majority, as it is said by some; a person is smart but people are dumb.
Anyway, I've said in the past that I intend to make an individual effortto correct the situation for all by making a web site that allows employees to grade their employers so people in the job market can find out who to avoid and who they want to work for. Yet the corporate world has much more money and lawyers than I ever could so I don't know how long this would last and I do not wish to have my family suffer for my own crusade. So, how much power does the individual have in this day and age?
