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Amazon's culture is being shaped with this suicide attempt

• kafkaesq 10y ago
  "One of us tried to kill themselves over work, and it seemed like beyond Blind, nobody cared. I didn't see people talking about it, I didn't see any mail from Jeff or my org VP...Life looked normal and mundane. This seems we have normalized this. We shouldn't." So instead of acknowledging that they have a problem... Amazon prefers to go on promoting the same culture of silence, distrust, and ambivalence to the suffering of others which likely contributed to the suicide attempt in the first place.
  • anonbanker 10y ago
    Is anyone that actively follows Amazon really surprised by this? Their internal culture is extraordinarily toxic.
    • kafkaesq 10y ago
      Surprised, no. But it is a useful data point. Which, when considering whether to open those (AFAIK unsolicited) emails from Amazon recruiters that I get now and then... factors quite considerably.