So now the employee is gonna tell the boss and owner what he can do politically? Well if i was his boss i would tell the employee what he could do..."go find your meddling self another job ...cause your are fired". When is this political crap gonna stop? Got the Hollywood people raising hell...now the employees..plus the illegals raising hell... me a break.
I feel sorry for you working for whatever kind of minor dictator you work for, or are you the minor dictator? If you own a company in a space where the skill of your employees really matters, and the difference between your generic employee x and a really good one is 10 or 20x a good owner treats their employees with a hell of a lot more respect than you seem to feel is warranted. If you don't run a company now, I don't recommend you start. If you do, now you know why you've had such a hard time hiring and keeping good help!
Ironic considering you would have no problem jailing employees who left your company by "stealing" open source software.
No, stealing software that they were paid to produce, which hardly makes them a valuable employee now does it? We've been over this my friend, you don't get to make up facts just because it's another thread.
Well, when you accuse other people of being "minor dictators", I think the other thread becomes pertinent.
The other thread is completely pertinent. You making up facts, like that the subject of the other thread was guilty only of taking open source software, is also highly relevant. For the benefit of those who didn't follow that conversation, I'll summarize. I believe employee's who steal from their employers, regardless of if it is a Ford factory worker stealing a car he just built or a software developer stealing the code they just built, should be prosecuted. If you define that as dictatorial then we live in different universes, mine being the universe where I have experience running a software development company and you do not. Anyone interested in the full arcane minutia of what constitutes open source software and how open source can be incorporated into proprietary software can go to the extensive previous thread, no need to rehash that here. Although if you'd like to hijack the thread I can again demonstrate that you are incorrect in your belief that it's fine to steal code because everyone does it, it has at least one line of open source in it, Goldman deserves it because they're evil, and since Goldman didn't attribute the open source license in their internal software any theft from them is perfectly justifiable.
business is not a democracy. It is not of the people, by the people, for the people. It exists because the owners wants to make money. It isn't a beach for feel good pop psychology. We have a generation of cry babies.. dead beats ...that have to be coddled and catered to all the time. If an employee is skilled AND responsible they will get what they deserve. If not, they are entirely free to leave. Anytime! Or they may well be asked to leave aka FIRING. Again, the purpose of business is making $$$ not a platform for promoting respect for others. Did you show any respect for that retail trader you took money from on your winning trade last week in the futures market? Did you show that person respect and make them "feel"" good? Or was you the only one feeling good that day. Was your purpose to make $$$ regardless if you took that retail traders last $1000.00 and now he is despondent..broke..and has a very mad wife. There is an old saying this generation has forgotton. "If you can't take the heat get out of the kitchen".
A valuable employee has as much power as an employer in today's world. If you don't realize that then you're the guy that gets stuck with B and C players and pounds his chest about how he has the right to be an asshole while wondering aloud why your employees are cry babies and dead beats. Guess what, the current generation of employees is incredibly skilled, versatile, responsible and creative and can produce significantly more value than my generation. The fact that you see them otherwise is a direct reflection of the fact that the good ones have a no asshole rule so you only see the bottom of the barrel!
So you feel that it's ok (and not a terminable offence) to make demands or threats to your employer about how they should conduct their business and or political actions?? Do you own a company, and if so, his profitable is it?
Hmmmm, I think you are projecting and not sure you realize how often employees take advantage of their employers. Of course there are some very valuable key employees and some are less valuable but still very good workers. There are many, also, who busy their day by doing the bare minimum, while working by the clock, looking for other employment.