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by schott12521 1042 days ago
- Amazon employees that were going into an office pre-pandemic switched to virtual when the company asked.

- Amazon employees stay productive, company makes the most it ever has due to the pandemic.

- Amazon fumbles for 1.5 years, doesn’t clearly communicate the desire to have everyone working in Seattle/hubs again, continues hiring remote talent.

- Most employees get frustrated at the fact that Amazon has complete control of the contract. Amazon says “you must work here” and there’s 0 room to negotiate.

Now I get it, we’re US workers with little workers rights and we get paid good money. So, to people like you, we should suck it up and just deal with it! Quit being so entitled!

Sure.

Where’s the empathy for our fellow humans that are being forced to move across the country with their family because they took a job that promised them one thing, and is now taking that away?

1 comments

Tell me you're a low performer without telling me you're a low performer ;)
Low performers == people acting with empathy? I thought the Earth's best employer would "lead with empathy" [1]?

I'm (voluntarily) leaving today after 5 years, I guess my performance was good enough to let me stay for that long.

[1]: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/two-new-leader...

Absolutely! The performance rubric looks at your value to them, not any of the other wishy-washy axes, comrade.