AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn
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#2A challenging writing style on a really difficult to read page with a sloppy AI header image means that this article was a not a great experience.
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#3Linguists centuries from now are going to wonder why everyone suddenly started writing like Paul Graham.
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#4The massive AI generated image header is more than a little bit ironic
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#5That name looks familiar.
He is the only person from AWS who contacted me after my account got locked for 5 days because AWS thought it was vaguely possible my account might possibly be (but wasn’t) hacked.
Any company who wants support people who care ….. give Tarus Balog a job. He seems to be ………. “Customer Obsessed”.
Everyone else ….. why are you still using AWS?
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#6I think this kind of overly dramatic writing makes me struggle to respect the arguments in the piece. Like the blog writer has this style like they’re documenting the collapse of humanity or something when really it’s just a massive cloud company taking some direction that may be suboptimal. I understand this tone can be helpful to drive effective change but I think it should be reserved for situations where people are actually suffering as opposed to when extremely well paid people engineers are laid off.
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#7A challenging writing style on a really difficult to read page with a sloppy AI header image means that this article was a not a great experience.
Just use browser's reader mode already or skip to the next article.
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#8He should not take it personally. Its clear it was a decision by the algo...The AI probably saw "reduced escalations" and concluded he was no longer needed.
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#9> The man who triggered a CEO-level investigation into AWS’s own dysfunction? Gone within ten months.
> I’m not saying there’s a direct line from saving my account to getting fired...
Either way, this is a very poor look for Amazon.
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#10Wait? I thought only Google did stuff like this, and AWS was an amazing, customer obsessed(tm) organization?