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Be interesting to see if Amazon supports the employee strikes as much as google - I think with google a lot of the strikes and walkouts were supported by manage
by privateSFacct 7y ago
Be interesting to see if Amazon supports the employee strikes as much as google - I think with google a lot of the strikes and walkouts were supported by management and/or no consequence. So it was a "strike" but everyone got paid still.
Is Amazon this progressive as well? Ie, will it pay everyone if an employee was needed but unavailable?
- kevin_b_er 7y agoAmazon seems far far more cutthroat than Google. They'll get PIP'd and thrown into the pressure cooker as punishment until they quit.
- cheeze 7y agoAntecdotally - the folks who have organized internal things like this at Amazon generally continue to work there. The folks who did the same at google seem to have gotten fired.
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- giaour 7y agoManagers at Amazon are arguably under more competitive pressure than their reports; no one is going to fire their top performer for participating in a climate awareness march. It's far, far more likely that the "strike" will be ignored than that it will result in anyone be disciplined or terminated.
- sp332 7y agoGoogle wasn't completely supportive. Four months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19802057 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19802057 and today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20918941 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20918941
- on_and_off 7y agoI am not a googler so I don't have a deep knowledge but some employees are also speaking of retaliations because of these strikes (mainly the leaders).