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In case people don't realize, the linked site has one blog post per day going back the past ~2 weeks all about this protest. Some choice excerpts: > I am sure
by baumy 8y ago
In case people don't realize, the linked site has one blog post per day going back the past ~2 weeks all about this protest. Some choice excerpts:
> I am sure in the future Mr Bezos will be placed in one line with Adolf Hitler as an example of genocide.
> There are 2 most difficult parts in the rally:
> - to get courage to start
> - to make a banner
> Courage is easier. Few YouTube videos about Martin Luther King, AC/DC song "Thunderstruck" and I am ready to fight.
> To be honest, in the morning fear of public shame almost caused symptoms of bed wetting.
> But Deadpool told me how to manage this fear. [embedded youtube video from the deadpool movie here]
> They can argue citing last words: Once a decision is determined, they commit wholly. Why didn't I commit? I ask: decision taken by whom? If my manager and his managers all the way till Bezos support oppression, should I respect their opinion?
> Then the only authority here is God. I say: Once a decision is determined BY GOD, I commit wholly. But God didn't ask me to stop protesting yet.
> Thus, most of NYT Amazon examples are really cruel and inhuman. Employees are punished because their parents are dying, their children are disabled etc. I hear shaking Hitler in his coffin. These are not single examples of "bad" managers. This is a company culture. Official company policies support the CULTURE worse than genocide. During the genocide, Jews were not treated in that way.
> If I don't find printer today, tomorrow nobody will know about horrors of Mr Bezos.
> How can I do leafleting without printer?
> Where are all these librarians?!!!!!!
> Btw - got to library. The one near of UW was open even during the "storm"... How can you call this nice Christmas snow a "storm"? I thought the storm is when Dorothy flies in her house through the sky... In Russia we have such storm 9 months a year with a temperature of -22 F.
> Anyway I printed almost 300 sheets of dirt about Amazon. Tomorrow 300 Amazonians will know the True. Jeff, I am coming.
> I was thinking I am afraid of people. But then I realized: in fact people are afraid of me. Now I feel I am more powerful and more free than anybody else. Amazon employees are restricted in their freedoms: they are forced to spend most time of their lives to do the work they hate. They are restricted to speak.
> I am free to speak and Jeff Bezos with all his billions can't close my mouth and can't prevent me from walking on the street with my banner.
> I like that. Like a student who lost virginity. I mean, well, you know.
> But today it will be incredible day. I am going to Whole foods store at Denny way. If Spheres s a heart of Amazon, Whole foods is its stomach. This store is always full of people and engineers. God bless me.
Before the outrage machine gets going, probably worth reading that and asking how reliable of a narrator this is.
- chrisco255 8y agoIt is interesting to see the mindset of the person who wrote this post. He's obviously been triggered by some internal politics and then he's extrapolated that all the way up and down the corporate chain of command. Amazon has 613,000 employees. I can imagine there's going to be a few bad managers in that mix.