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Comment by PragmaticPulp | Hacker News Reader

Equating every action of a million person company with their (soon to be former) CEO is disingenuous. Jeff Bezos isn't personally directly every action of every employee at Amazon. I know it's popular to hate Amazon, but we don't even have any evidence that this handful of Twitter accounts was created by Amazon employees in the first place, let alone personally directed by Jeff Bezos.

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It was under his reign that this toxic workplace culture was created. It's 100% his doing.

Former CEO my foot, he is just as in charge as ever; nothing happens without his approval.

There are news articles floating around now saying that Bezos was a direct influence on the recent aggressive nature of Amazon twitter accounts attacking/fighting back. Not sure how many former employees would be able to wield that kind of power. Granted this former CEO is still the President of the Board or whatever Grand Poobah title he has.

He wasn't "former" CEO for the last 26 years though, talking about being disingenuous

He did this.

https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/3/28/22354604/amazon-twitter...

News articles have came out saying that Jeff Bezos was responsible for those actions. But, even if they weren't, you're saying the CEO should be rewarded with billions of dollars for the actions of the leaders under them, but carry none of the blame for those acts as well?

In corporate America, responsibility is on senior leadership, and the CEO is at the top of that chain. If they want to have the W's of that system, they get to take the L's too.

He is still the CEO. He will step down later this year.

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