As Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Stripe, Shopify, Lyft, Netflix, and Microsoft lay off workers, let it serve as a reminder that free snacks, beer kegs, and ping pong tables are not real perks.

Do you know what is? Being part of a union that will defend you.

@rbreich having voted to strike I hope you are right ... Didn't work last time I striked, but that was as a graduate student, a massive industrial powerhouse, obviously. Now, better place, organisation etc