picket signs. It's just telling your boss that you don't like it. If enough of your colleagues express a similar sentiment, then the threat is implicit.

Today there's enough labor shortage at all levels that it's pro employee. Next time it contracts, it'll be a buyer's market for talent and employees will get a worse deal. I'm okay with that contraction because it just reflects reality.

I'd this had been posted in 2009-11, part of the board would b grumbling that the OP is lucky to have both a job and paid vacation.