Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout over return to office, layoffs
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Re: Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout over return to office, layoffs
#2If these workers could get remote jobs, they would- but they can’t. Amazon knows this, and probably can’t wait for them to quit.
For now all they can do is complain about having to go to an office to be a spoiled, overpaid tech worker. If I had that job I would be keeping my mouth shut and enjoying the paycheck, but to each their own I suppose.
Re: Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout over return to office, layoffs
#3If these workers could get remote jobs, they would- but they can’t. Amazon knows this, and probably can’t wait for them to quit. For now all they can do is complain about having to go to an office to be a spoiled, overpaid tech worker. If I had that job I would be keeping my mouth shut and enjoying the paycheck, but to each their own I suppose.
Amazon has a small window to force the drones back to the office. Once people start having options we're done. WFH will be here to stay.
Re: Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout over return to office, layoffs
#4> “There’s a feeling of the culture and the values that are being told are important for us to bring to the table are not being mirrored by the top executives,” the worker said. “They do not model with their behavior what we are told to do with our roles.”
Are they referring to Amazon's Leadership Principles, or something else?
https://www.amazon.jobs/content/en/our-workplace/leadership-...
Re: Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout over return to office, layoffs
#5Wed 5/31 12pm near Bezos's balls (ie the spheres). It would be a shame if other people that are forced back into the office would not show up in support.
Re: Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout over return to office, layoffs
#6If these workers could get remote jobs, they would- but they can’t. Amazon knows this, and probably can’t wait for them to quit. For now all they can do is complain about having to go to an office to be a spoiled, overpaid tech worker. If I had that job I would be keeping my mouth shut and enjoying the paycheck, but to each their own I suppose.
Most of them sadly can not get even a non remote job easily. Most of big tech, and Amazon specially, massively lowered their hiring floor to hire more over the years, and are full of extremely incompetent people who will find it hard to survive elsewhere. Orgs are more like fiefdoms and full of incompetent people. A lot of such incompetent people know they are incompetent and go to massive lengths to survive (getting credit for everything they can, acting as information gatekeepers whenever they can).
Re: Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout over return to office, layoffs
#7If these workers could get remote jobs, they would- but they can’t. Amazon knows this, and probably can’t wait for them to quit. For now all they can do is complain about having to go to an office to be a spoiled, overpaid tech worker. If I had that job I would be keeping my mouth shut and enjoying the paycheck, but to each their own I suppose.
Most of them sadly can not get even a non remote job easily. Most of big tech, and Amazon specially, massively lowered their hiring floor to hire more over the years, and are full of extremely incompetent people who will find it hard to survive elsewhere. Orgs are more like fiefdoms and full of incompetent people. A lot of such incompetent people know they are incompetent and go to massive lengths to survive (getting…
Who can get a remote job easily? The top performers. Incoming dead sea effect.
Re: Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout over return to office, layoffs
#8If these workers could get remote jobs, they would- but they can’t. Amazon knows this, and probably can’t wait for them to quit. For now all they can do is complain about having to go to an office to be a spoiled, overpaid tech worker. If I had that job I would be keeping my mouth shut and enjoying the paycheck, but to each their own I suppose.
Instead of begging to be exploited by billionaires, yob could band together with your fellow tech workers and win better treatment for all of us.
Re: Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout over return to office, layoffs
#9If only there were some kind of organization employees could belong to that would help counter the asymmetric power of corporations.
Re: Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout over return to office, layoffs
#10This is long overdue. It is well past time for tech workers to organize and demand a larger share of the billions in wealth we’ve generated for the VCs and CEOs.