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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

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post #15

This 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.

Getting FAANG salary isn’t enough?

Can people on this site please stop acting like everyone in tech (or “everyone in tech who matters”) is working for FAANG and getting a FAANG salary? Believe it or not there exist software developers who make less than $100k.

Re: Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout over return to office, layoffs

#32
Perhaps the "Wagie get back in the cage" policy, would go over better if the boss did not blow 100s of millions on chefs, cnn hosts and trying to escape gravity.

"Jeff Bezos, the Amazon (AMZN) founder and world's wealthiest man, said Tuesday after flying to the edge of space that he planned to award $100 million each to CNN contributor Van Jones and chef José Andrés."

Re: Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout over return to office, layoffs

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With return to office it's nowhere near enough on the west coast. Unless you hold a top position at a large corporation on the west coast you don't even have enough money to buy a house. Considering you're helping generate billions in revenue yeah, I'd say you should be being paid more.

The only homeowners in CA, OR, and WA are top executives at large corporations?

I know probably a dozen devs that I regularly talk to from school and the only ones with their own homes have been seniors or higher positions for half a decade or longer.

Re: Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout over return to office, layoffs

#34
post #15

This 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.

Getting FAANG salary isn’t enough?

Is a FAANG salary enough for Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, or Elon Musk?

Re: Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout over return to office, layoffs

#35

Wow, the pro-corp tone in some of the comments is surprising. Software jobs are one of the few remaining ones where we still hold the means of production -- and can withhold them to our leverage. These folks are walking out for the right reasons -- big f-off to RTO, and even if a bit late, the layoffs.

There are so many people that stand to lose if a fully remote work force came to pass. Building management, HR, middle managers, property investors, they're the ones you're hearing I'd guess. Pure software dev jobs are very easy to do remotely, it's not like we spend all day talking to people any way.

Re: Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout over return to office, layoffs

#36

Wow, the pro-corp tone in some of the comments is surprising. Software jobs are one of the few remaining ones where we still hold the means of production -- and can withhold them to our leverage. These folks are walking out for the right reasons -- big f-off to RTO, and even if a bit late, the layoffs.

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Re: Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout over return to office, layoffs

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post #31
post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Getting FAANG salary isn’t enough?

Can people on this site please stop acting like everyone in tech (or “everyone in tech who matters”) is working for FAANG and getting a FAANG salary? Believe it or not there exist software developers who make less than $100k.

Surely tech workers at Amazon Seattle are getting FAANG salaries by definition?

Re: Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout over return to office, layoffs

#38
post #2

If 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…

Astute observation. I imagine this effect will eventually consume any company. Or will it? Do we know of a way to stave it off?

Re: Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout over return to office, layoffs

#39
post #31
post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Getting FAANG salary isn’t enough?

Can people on this site please stop acting like everyone in tech (or “everyone in tech who matters”) is working for FAANG and getting a FAANG salary? Believe it or not there exist software developers who make less than $100k.

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Re: Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout over return to office, layoffs

#40
post #15

This 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.

Getting FAANG salary isn’t enough?

Why should it be when you can be laid off even when the corporation is making record breaking profits
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