The Great Tech Worker Revolution Has Begun

Pushed too far, tech workers are pushing back, and it's a volcano waiting to erupt

"I don't like my job. And I don't think I'm going to go anymore."

That there is maybe the best line from the 1999 Mike Judge movie Office Space, the precursor to the even more on-the-nose Silicon Valley.

But look at the four-digit-number in that sentence again. That line was uttered (checks watch) 25 years ago.

Was it the first shot fired in the Great Tech Worker Revolution? Probably not. I picture dudes (all dudes) in short-sleeve-dress-shirts, clip-on-ties, and horn-rimmed glasses going all Falling Down (1993!) at IBMs and Honeywells in the 1960s and 1970s, but staying real quiet during the day and then mostly shouting about uncomfortable chairs and missing staplers at the dinner table later that night. This is probably where Judge got his Milton Waddams character.

So the Great Tech Worker Revolution has been going on for decades, just… not very hard.

That may have changed.

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