Interesting. My experience with Amazon was very different from yours but I still noticed a very distinct culture of hero worship. Nobody ever criticized their s

Interesting. My experience with Amazon was very different from yours but I still noticed a very distinct culture of hero worship. Nobody ever criticized their superiors. Nobody ever called them out for doing something stupid. And no matter what, if someone at the VP/SVP level said something, even in passing, even without much seriousness at all, all their subordinates would jump on it as fast as possible. They said jump and you lost your hearing due to the chorus of "how high?!". I wouldn't be surprised if your facebook friend said something in passing and not thought about it for more than a second or two, but because you made some intermediary look slightly bad in the eyes of their hero, you lost your potential for promotion. Sad. I hope you've moved on.