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This is written by Jay Carney. Yes, that Jay Carney. Apparently he's working for Amazon now. Two months after Bezos' internal memo is "leaked" to the press s
by forgottenpass 11y ago
This is written by Jay Carney. Yes, that Jay Carney. Apparently he's working for Amazon now.
Two months after Bezos' internal memo is "leaked" to the press saying that the Amazon in the NYT peice isn't the Amazon he knows, and that employees should email him directly if something like that happens. Now it's time for the offensive. Apparently two months is the amount of time you no longer have to pretend to care about work conditions, and go back to reputation.
This medium piece attacks the character of the NYT's source, which is comedy gold coming from someone who was paid to be a lying weaselly bastard, performing active disservice to the citizenry.
- at-fates-hands 11y ago>> This medium piece attacks the character of the NYT's source, which is comedy gold coming from someone who was paid to be a lying weaselly bastard, performing active disservice to the citizenry. I started reading and got halfway through and went back to see who the author was and stopped at that point. The one guy who doesn't have a shred of credibility attacking sources as less than credible? Unreal.
- whatok 11y agoFormer Minister of Propaganda aside, if his account of one of the key sources of the story is true, it kinda affects how it should be perceived, right?
- chishaku 11y agoRight. How do we properly discern between professional bullshitters?
- whatok 11y agoI would probably have to side with Amazon's account since it would be pretty easy for the person who resigned to sue for libel if it were not true. Don't think Amazon would want to expose themselves like that.
- vkou 11y agoWhy on Earth would anyone want to sue their former employer? Libel or not, that's the fastest way to kill your career.
- whatok 11y agoI can't imagine a corporate legal team on Earth that would advise someone to publish something libelous because they expected a former employee to not sue over it.
- vkou 11y agoLegal exists to make you aware of the risks - not drive them to zero. Even in the unlikely event that someone would start a libel suit, and win (Or, more likely, quietly settle), the PR victory may be worth the cost.
- HelloMcFly 11y agoIt's never easy to sue a major organization.
- jhall1468 11y agoIf they publicly lied about someone being fired for fraud, rest assured there would be an ARMY of lawyers ready to take up that case.
- HelloMcFly 11y agoIt doesn't matter how many lawyers are ready to take the case, initiating and following-through with a lawsuit against a major organization will be taxing indeed. The the organization is a former employer? That's no decision to be made lightly, however justified your suit may be.
- saosebastiao 11y agoI would likely be millions of dollars richer if I happened to record a two minute conversation with my former boss's boss, who was an ecclesiastical leader at a church that I eventually left. He told me point blank that the reason I was fired was because I wasn't faithful enough and was no longer worthy of my (completely unrelated) employment. On the books, however, they made it out to be a performance issue. I had plenty of witnesses available to me that could have proven that it wasn't a performance issue, but in an at-will company, that doesn't get me anything at all. I don't go around recording random conversations, and corporations have a lot of ways to cover their tracks. When that is your reality and the burden of proof is on you, you don't do anything. You get fucked and you learn from it.