02:21 - Melissa’s Superpower: Being Extremely Online 03:06 - Unionizing Glitch Glitch workers sign tech’s first collective bargaining agreement Misconceptions re: Unions Engineer Salary Discrepancies Middle Management, Product Management Unionization Minority Unions (i.e. Google) What is a Minority Union? [The Rise of Minority Unions: How Social Movements and Tech Giants Could Be Showing Signs of Things To Come](The Rise of Minority Unions: How Social Movements and Tech Giants Could Be Showing Signs of Things To Come) 14:58 - Melissa’s Previous Experience with Working w/ Unions Communications Workers of America (CWA) Civic Technology (What Is Civic Technology?) Chi Hack Night 17:13 - Positive Skills Union Organizers Should Have 18:32 - Thoughts on Leading with Petitions We are Frank — a platform for worker voice 2018 Google Walkouts 26:58 - Writing Online; Dismantling Publications and the Fracturing of the Media World The Rise Of Substack—And What’s Behind It Melissa McEwen: The best JavaScript date libraries in 2021 29:41 - Evaluating Human Performance PSA: DevRel isn’t fake !! How to Hire A-Players: Finding the Top People for Your Team- Even If You Don't Have a Recruiting Department People Skills 43:21 - Getting Started with Organizing a Union Use Signal, Not Slack Be Harder to Fire Reflections: Casey: Hearing success stories re: unionizing. Jacob: How people skills can be a function of your individual team. Melissa: Studying more about unions in other countries. Rein: Looking more into co-ops and collectivisations. An injury to one is an injury to all. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Transcript: JACOB: Hello, and welcome to Greater Than Code, Episode 229. My name is Jacob Stoebel and I’m here with my co-panelist, Casey Watts. CASEY: Hi, I'm Casey. I'm here today with Melissa McEwen. Melissa is a web developer, working in content now. She often writes about the JavaScript ecosystem. She helped unionize Glitch, which recently signed their first Collective Bargaining Agreement in late February. Welcome, Melissa. So glad to have you. MELISSA: Hi, everyone. CASEY: We like to start each show by asking you a certain question. Melissa, what is your superpower and how did you acquire it? MELISSA: My superpower is being extremely online and I acquired it by being given computers way too young and having nothing to do, but play with computers. CASEY: I like that phrase “extremely online.” What does that look like today for you? MELISSA: It means, I know way too much about what's going on in Twitter and the internet in general and sometimes, I'll make references that you only know if you're extremely online and it's kind of embarrassing. I don't even know what it's like to not be extremely online, but I'm trying to stop being extremely online because it's overwhelming trying not to check Twitter every 5 seconds. CASEY: Oh, yeah. I did that a lot, too. I don't know if I would describe myself as extremely online, but I might have seen some of the same memes as you and I think that would [chuckles] give me a little bit of that. MELISSA: Yeah. I mean, memes, what's the latest drama on Twitter today, that kind of stuff. JACOB: Is there a way to turn that superpower and help people around you or, how do you leverage that? MELISSA: Yeah, the only thing that's good about it, I would say is that you know a lot. I try to write about things and provide my knowledge to other people. I mean, you know a lot, but on a surface level, that's the problem so, you have to always be aware of that. I'm not an ...