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Toyota's "Respect for People" was a sort of joke to me when I worked there, then I worked at Amazon and saw the opposite.

Toyota is a great company to work for, albeit super boring.

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Being ethical is often aligned with being boring. I don't want the employees at my insurance company doing anything exciting with my personal information.

The ethical and boring axes are orthogonal.

I didn't expect to read that ethical and boring are aligned during Black History Month (US).

I would still argue that orderly actions that follow an established code tend to be boring, and that such codes are generally set up to encourage ethical actions.

Or with two ton metal death traps going at 100mph.

Boring in manufacturing is good.

Most well-run operations tend to be boring, because there are not enough fuck-ups to make it interesting. Kind of what you want. Agree on the Amazon thing, despite being super efficient, and operationally well-run, they could care more about people. To put it diplomatically. Amazon is very consistent between blue and white collar so. That cannot be said about a lot other companies out there.

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