Amazon fires two UX designers critical of warehouse working conditions

Post by cactus2093 » Tue, Apr 14, 2020, 7:14 PM UTC

ajross wrote: post #102

rochester46 wrote: post #59

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Amazon has nearly a million employees. The gist of your comment is valid, but firing two people (or even two hundred people) out of a million doesn't even come close to meaning that they have an antagonistic relationship with its workforce in general.

Normally tech employers don't fire people for complaining about company policies, and it's almost always news when they do. A general sense of shared cause and cameraderie is part of the way the industry is "supposed" to work, and part of that is a culture of reasonably open discussion of this stuff. But Amazon can't have that now, because the only resolution that they can see here is either victory or complete capit…

Post by TAForObvReasons » Tue, Apr 14, 2020, 7:16 PM UTC

cirno wrote: post #156

> “We support every employee’s right to criticize their employer’s working conditions,” a spokesperson said, “but that does not come with blanket immunity against any and all internal policies.” What a strange statement. "We support their right to criticize their working conditions, only actually we don't at all"

Post by tehjoker » Tue, Apr 14, 2020, 7:17 PM UTC

missedthecue wrote: post #147

tehjoker wrote: post #100

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Of course the powerful can use their powers for evil, we have to criticise them for it.

I don't think discontinuing employment should be categorized as 'evil'. Amazon doesn't owe them a job, and if the seller of labour crossed a line that the buyer doesn't like and that has been clearly spelled out prior to the work beginning, no one should force the buyer to continue buying labour from the seller. That would be closer to evil than the former option.

Post by jshevek » Tue, Apr 14, 2020, 7:21 PM UTC

droithomme wrote: post #11

A4ET8a8uTh0 wrote: post #4

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WP reported Amazon stated they violated company policies. That is probably true too ( talking to media or some such ). https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/04/13/amazon-...

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Post by mav3rick » Tue, Apr 14, 2020, 7:22 PM UTC

epicureanideal wrote: post #30

gryzzly wrote: post #23

I wonder what their recruiting team thinks about these moves by the company. I know I will not work for Amazon seeing how the manage dissent at the company and I’m sure there are many other people who feel the same.

Not to worry, they'll simply say they have a "talent shortage" and ask the government to help supply them with workers whose situations are so desperate they won't think about the company's business practices. (Note, this is not actually a jab at Amazon in particular.)