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?
Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout over return to office, layoffs
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#32"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
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Re: Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout over return to office, layoffs
#34Re: Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout over return to office, layoffs
#35Wow, 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.
Re: Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout over return to office, layoffs
#36Wow, 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.
Re: Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout over return to office, layoffs
#37Earlier 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.
Re: Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout over return to office, layoffs
#38If 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…
Re: Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout over return to office, layoffs
#39Earlier 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.
Re: Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout over return to office, layoffs
#40This 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?