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Did I miss out on some additional fallout after the article was initially published? I don't see why they're addressing this two months later.

• tremon 11y ago
  Apparently, that's the amount of time you need to polish a turd before it stops smelling.
• TravelTechGuy 11y ago
  My $.02: maybe they are starting to feel the fallout in their recruiting efforts about now. I get about one recruiting email from Amazon a month on average, and I assume others do as well. It's enough that 10% of candidates reply with "I wouldn't feel comfortable working there", or " I don't think it's a culture fit - I don't like crying at my desk, as is apparently encouraged over there" for them to realize they have to do something drastic. Sadly, for them drastic means going double-douche: outing ex-employees and attacking the media, rather than own up to even a small part of what was published, and say they are striving to improve their culture.
  • whatok 11y ago
    Yeah that makes sense and also offers an explanation of their choice to publish on Medium.
  • cwilkes 11y ago
    I read somewhere else that they are afraid of another upcoming expose, like from 60 minutes, and want to get out in front of it. Even if that is true it was a really ham handed way of doing it. The only people this appeals to are ones that already like Amazon. The ones on the fence look at it and see "hey they drug out why this was a bad person" and think that they don't want to be on the receiving end of that and thus turn into ones that aren't inclined to work for them.