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Amazon corporate workers to stage walkout citing lack of trust in leadership

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10 pointsLinuxBender5 comments

1800 isn't a massive number, but considering the possibility of consequences maybe its a good amount.... though its probably a little self important to think that execs at a company that size would even care who you were individually.

Working in my first big-tech(ish) job, I've noticed a lot more dissent than I expected... and its really wild to me just how many people think a large company would run better if they were in charge. Its entirely possible that nobody would make the right decision under any circumstances. Slack is a pretty insane echo chamber and mixed with the god-complex we tend to have as developers... its a recipe for disaster.

I don't know much about what its like to work at amazon, I think RTO is silly, and I do think that climate impact etc is all important.... but its shocking how much company time people in high paying jobs spend just shitting on the company.

I think when a company is as openly hostile to the interests of its employees as Amazon, you shouldn't be surprised when there's hostility in return.

1800 is much greater than zero - the number of employees who express overt dissent of any form at the vast majority of tech companies.

The fact that expressing concern of any form about the company's direction is cast as "shitting on the company", or will otherwise get you flagged has having a bad attitude -- is a great part of what prompts these people to organize in the first place.

I guess what I mean is that I don’t personally think this helps their cause. The numbers look big in print but in reality it’s a very small number.

> The walkout is being jointly organized by an internal climate justice worker group and a remote work advocacy group

While I am sympathetic to both concerns, these seem weakly related and I wonder if they are diluting their message by trying to combine them. E.g. if management asked them to be in the office 1 day a week instead of 3, but make no new commitments about environmental impact, are the walkout employees appeased or not?

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