The 39% who voted yes should put their money where their mouth is and strike. This would be enough to bring that facility to its’ knees.
The inevitable retalitory measurements they will get from management will make it to the courts with a shot of setting precedent.
The high likelihood they will be treated with brutal violence by police, private security and right ring militias at the picket lines will gain public sympathy and create momentum for a nationwide, possibly international boycott of Amazon possibly a general strike in solidarity.
A few more than 4 I think Georgia will give pretty much any tourist a 364 day visa. Spain has a “non-lucrative residench permit” which lets you work for non-ES companiea remoteu. Dubai also has something similar.
If you have enough $$ to buy a passport then you are probably not using HN or a jr developer. This means a multi multi million dollar investment in a country and some amount of bribery.
Next also unrealistic option is to buy a “Golden visa”, which starts around €250k in real estate investment in Malta and takes 2 years.
The “easiest” shortcut is to marry an eu citizen.
Another route is to get a 1-year student visa by attending a full time language school, then finding a local company to sponsor you for a gig.
Senior DevOps Engineer at a mid-sized, stagnant californian “startup”, roughly $150k salary.
Seriously. My last three jobs were at companies which were 10-15 years old, had burned through $75m-$150m in VC and had flat revenues of $12-$15m for years.
These are my bread and butter. I “work” remotely from utc+2. Theoretically I am working from home, but pre-covid 60% of my time I was “working” from cafes around Europe/the middle-east 1-3 hours per day.
The rest of my time I was being a tourist, getting stoned, having flings or mm-transit to my next destination.
The thing about companies this size is either you have a good sized team managing a medium worklod and very low expectations.
The long timers are milking it to make up for their worthless stock options. The executive positions are revolving doors (all 3 companies saw at least 2 ceo turnovers during my term).
At my last job all real work was done in Belarus and Russia. As the team lead, my entire job was ended up being tidying up / linting / deduplicating our terraform code base while giving the actual engineers encouragement and architectural advice. It even gave me a reason to party in minsk and make more friends.
I get fired every 1.5 - 2 years, but I spend like a poor homeless backpacker and my home base is in the 3rd world, so at age 40 I already have enough saved to retire.
I used to be a hard workimg, diligent, ambitious engineer working startups I believed in, but getting screwed over by 2 consecutive YC startups made me look at employers as nothing more than a short-term atm.
These positions are easy to get if you use the right search criteria, actually know your shit enough to project confidence, and if you’re extroverted enough to have built anreally large network of colleagues who like you.
Look over YC’s list of companies from ‘11-14. Specifically look for the companies which are still around, aren’t unicorns but haven’t failed, and use the tech stack you know best.
Don’t be afraid to shamelessly inflate your resume to do this. Your employers will lie to you, their customers and their investors with a sociopathic calm demeanor. There’s no reason not to do the same.
The inevitable retalitory measurements they will get from management will make it to the courts with a shot of setting precedent.
The high likelihood they will be treated with brutal violence by police, private security and right ring militias at the picket lines will gain public sympathy and create momentum for a nationwide, possibly international boycott of Amazon possibly a general strike in solidarity.
This is how most unions were built.