The other day, I went to tour a colocation facility. Â For the uninitiated, it’s a place to put your business servers so you don’t have to house them yourself (and maintain UPS and generators and other things like that). Â Outside this facility were some protesters. Â They had signs about unfair wages and other stuff. Â I found out from the employees that the reason for the protest was thus: this company decided to expand, took bids for sheet rock work, and accepted the lower bid, a company with a higher bid didn’t like it and claims the only reason the other bid was lower was because “that company doesn’t pay a fair wage”, but it turns out the upset company is a union shop and likely pays more due to contract not because it’s “fair”.
That’s fine. Â I understand, company upset, protests. Â But the kicker is, the protesters are not employees of that company or members of that union. Â The protesters are homeless people that the company is paying (well below the minimum wage) to stand there 24/7. Â I know, I asked, and protesters, when approached, often ask if you know about the protest and offer to give you details, they don’t usually ask for cigarettes and money – homeless people do.
Look. Â If you don’t care enough to do your own protesting, then I can’t be bothered to care about your protest. Â And the ironic part of paying people an unfair wage to protest unfair wages is not really helping you.
Besides, have you been inside? Â Their setup is freakin’ sweet!