Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: It’s probably not going to work out
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#2#disagree-and-commute
Re: Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: It’s probably not going to work out
#3Y’all gonna unionize or what? It has to get old listening to edicts from the folks who filter up to the top.
Could also investigate a constructive dismissal class action in the interim if you can find someone willing to take it on.
Re: Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: It’s probably not going to work out
#4Usual dumb management BAU. Worker in the cubicle is the limit of their imagination.
Re: Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: It’s probably not going to work out
#5> Jassy reportedly said his decision to have employees return to the office was a “judgment call” and that employees can leave if they don’t want to comply.
Amazon is having trouble scouting warehouse labor. Looks like they're trying to add skilled labor to the set of problems.
Re: Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: It’s probably not going to work out
#6#disagree-and-commute
I have yet to work at a place where 'disagree and commit' did not devolve into 'shut up and code'.
It seems to be one of those things that looks good on paper and is rotten in practice.
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#7> In July, leaked messages seen by Insider suggested that Amazon would force a “voluntary resignation” on employees [...]
Is Amazon trying to avoid firing people to screw them out of unemployment benefits? No way a forced resignation is not the same as firing.
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#8I don't know the origins of the "disagree and commit" philosophy, but Jassy's use seems like a self-serving perversion of what is an attempt at dealing with decision deadlock.
... that is, disagree-and-commit transactionally seems like it ought to be between peers. Disagree-and-commit when applied between superiors and reports could be rewritten as just "shut up and follow orders."
Re: Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: It’s probably not going to work out
#9Y’all gonna unionize or what? It has to get old listening to edicts from the folks who filter up to the top. Could also investigate a constructive dismissal class action in the interim if you can find someone willing to take it on.
This feels like the first time there would be serious impetus (and a perfect case) for tech workers to form a union.
Re: Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: It’s probably not going to work out
#10He's going to get a very sudden lesson on adverse selection.