[strivingtobe]

The article brings up the two new LPs that were added, one being "Strive to be the world's best employer".

The biggest slap in the face about this LP is that the word "strive" used to be a bad word at Amazon. If you ever said you were going to "strive" to do something, you would be told that's not good enough. If you put it in a doc, you would be told to remove it. "Strive" was a weasel word. We never accepted "striving" as part of our tenets or our goals. Our goals never were to "strive to build a good service", our goal was just "build a good service"!

And then they went and made the new LP "Strive to be the world's best employer". Why isn't it just "Be the world's best employer"?

It may seem like a small thing, but it's an example of the ethos that has been chipped away inside Amazon. That particular LP has always been the butt of jokes because it's been clear over the last 5 years that leadership isn't actually serious about it, but the use of the weasel word "strive" really just put the cherry on top.

[mlwiese]

There is no try, only do. -Yoda

[rty32]

I mean, everybody knows LPs are BS when they put "Strive to be the world's best employer". Anyone who either works/worked at Amazon or knows someone working there understand what the work culture is like there.

And of course, everybody understands there is no way you can force people back into office -- many people commute over an hour a day -- and also be "best employer" at the same time. That's just obvious.