39 years as a software engineer, and every single gig, large or small, is literally Wallace and Gromit and the f***ing train tracks.

@tschak I started in 73. Many jobs were not like that all and others were only like that at “crunch time”, a short period before product release.

Crunch times grew longer over the years and jobs without the problem grew fewer. By 2003 only a handful of jobs were not like that and crunch time had become continuous in most product development.

It is clear that programmers need unions and clear that too many have been suckered by the anti union propaganda.
That needs to change

@MartyFouts I started advocating for software unions more than 20 years ago, and was always "laughed out of the room."
@tschak As late as 2014 when I retired after 40 years it was still impossible to get programmers to have a serious discussion about unions. I suppose it is just as bad now.
@MartyFouts @tschak I suspect it depends where you live and who you work for. I live in Ireland and work for a European multinational - and we have a union.