As a minority female who has unpleasant interactions with people sometimes forced upon me, this "PhoneTool" gives me the willies. I cannot imagine being a part

As a minority female who has unpleasant interactions with people sometimes forced upon me, this "PhoneTool" gives me the willies. I cannot imagine being a part of a large company with 1M+ employees and having no control whatsoever over whether or not another employee can "reach out" or not. It is awful and I'm surprised Amazon's legal team hasn't shut it down or at least found ways to limit its reach before now. Many things can be the trigger: differing politics, racial views, etc. Would I want someone who holds views which are damaging to my well-being to have the ability to reach out to me directly? Heck no...and yes I realize the timing is terrible, but from the outside looking in we have no idea why this was done. Something else may have happened that we (the reading, judging public) has no idea of...for all kind of reasons. I think the fact that it is happening during a stressful time for Amazon could be clouding more important issues. EEs at Google used their company access to spy on co-workers calendars, another ex-Googler was using his access to harass customers of Google products. At 1M EEs, there is bound to be a bad/crazy apple in the bunch and it only takes one incident for this whole thing to become a very bad conversation. Reddit recently added a glowing dot on profile pictures to alert people when you are online, but reddit has awful moderation and women are constantly getting attacked. I shut that light off as soon as I heard about it. This seems so much worse because there is no escaping work place harassers without quitting. Attacks against individuals of various racial groups have been in the news alot recently and I could easily see a bad actor using this tool to make real trouble for an unsuspecting person. Hopefully, Amazon keeps it shut down and devises a new way for its EEs to communicate.