another brilliant post about the QOL of Amazon.
Public protest against Amazon
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#332Earlier quoted context omitted.
What does his or your age have to do with anything? Just sounds like a penny wise pound foolish story to me.
What 25 year old has the resources to take on even a 100-person corporation, much less a megacorp?
The salient part of that story was the unfair reimbursement policy. My point was that it would have been unfair regardless of the age of the manager or age of the employee.
Where did I suggest that anyone "take on" the company?
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#333Amazon employee here, though I do not speak for the company. At any big company, your management chain is the #1 influence on the quality of your culture. My experience at Amazon has been extremely positive, but then my org head is a great guy, so it's all been in line with my expectations. I've also left critical feedback through the Amazon Connect survey for my immediate manager and not suffered for it. That manage…
That’s fantastc! Seriously, it’s good that you feel great about the work you do and have a management team that allows you to breathe easy, is supportive, and helps you out put the best work possible.
BUT, and I truly believe this in the depths of my soul, everyone is as evil as their most sociopathic executive.
Everyone is contributing to the same bottom line, some people just sell out for less.
Whose more evil, the hitman that won’t kill for under 1 million or the hitman that will do it for minimum wage?
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#334Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you actually paying cash? Assuming you're using a credit card, and assuming your company isn't looking to defraud you, using a card with decent cash back makes it a nonissue and "fronting the cash" for expenses is just a way for you to get a kickback from your credit card company for using them as a payment processor for work expenses. (And kind of a net positive relative to if you had a company credit card where…
I do not possess a credit card for ideological reasons. I do have two debit cards, one Visa and one MasterCard, for redundancy. I see what you are saying and it makes sense. I’m just ideologically opposed to the use of consumer credit for regular / recurring / general living expenses.
If you're ideologically opposed to consumer credit because of the cycles of debt it incurs just pay off your credit card in full every month (which is what I do). No interest will be paid.
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#335The author of the article posted their Amazon user name, so I decided to look them up. I'll start with raw data, and then inject my own thoughts:
* The author is the bottom contributor on his team by a large margin. Their few contributions are primarily configuration changes and pixel pushes.
* The author hasn't made any contributions since last August, likely due to a leave of absence
* The author's manager has received overall positive feedback in the yearly employee survey for the last two years
If I were to speculate, I would guess that the author was put on a PIP very early on and, combined with his short tenure, is the reason the transfer was denied. I really hesitate to speculate any farther than that since there are clearly other circumstances to factor in, but I encourage everyone to consider that there are two sides to this story. Personally, given the data I can see, it doesn't look very good for the author.
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#336Which came first, the post or the lawsuit? Churyumov v. Amazon Corporate LLC (2:19-cv-00136) District Court, W.D. Washington https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/14528071/churyumov-v-am...
Yuck,
>Self-Represented Plaintiff Oleg Churyumov.
This won't end well for the guy.
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#337Disclaimer: I currently work at Amazon as an SDM (I do not speak for the company). I've also worked a lot of other places. In my experience, bad managers can happen anywhere. I'm not going to take sides since all we have is a story told by an ex-employee who has every reason to be spiteful toward his former employer. The other side of this story is one we'll likely never hear. I do want to comment on the visa aspect…
WTF? Why it can't be simple "just go somewhere else"? Well, just go to some other country.
I'm not saying it's easy, but why bang your head against the wall. Go somewhere else, and, if you really want, come back another time, through a different company or on different terms.
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#338The company employs something like 300,000 people. I’d imagine many stories of bad management just at that scale. Since it’s Amazon it always gets an unfair level attention.
Try 650,000.
(Amazon's latest 10-K: "We employed approximately 647,500 full-time and part-time employees as of December 31, 2018.")
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#339Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's because Amazon doesn't work like a cohesive monolithic organization. Two teams that seat next to each other may have complete different cultures and ways of working. By design, Amazon is an aggregator of many small "startups" with different budgets, different issues, different approaches to solving problems. The connecting tissues are the leadership principles, the infrastructure, the resources, the mobility a…
Exactly. I work at a very similar place on the East Coast -- very startup like culture unified by leadership principles. I had one so-so experience, followed by an absolutely horrible experience, followed by two terrific experiences. For the bad experience, I worked weeks on end, lots of times throughout the night trying to deliever, in many cases, unreasonable feature requests all while trying to maintain production…
> In the end, sticking through and using the horrible experience to learn and grow ended up paying off long term.
I totally agree that being disciplined and challenging oneself to grow is really important. Still, I wouldn’t want suggest someone to stay in a bad place if it’s actually a detriment to their health or quality of life. It’s really hard to find a balance for me personally, and I don’t feel I can give concrete advice on the matter to others.
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#340> Khan made me single parent. I've been downvoted here before for "victim blaming", but I'm going to say this anyway because someone has to. It's your responsibility to be in control of your life. There is no grand order of things that will take care of you. There will always be things working against you. Entropy, competition, environmental hazards, psychopaths, etc, are everpresent. You need to have the confidence…
Easier said than done you’re on an H1B visa and HR hangs you out to dry.