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Amazon has existed for 30 years. For 26 of those years it was primarily an in office job, only temporarily shifting to WFH, where applicable, in response to a f
by thegrim33 2y ago
Amazon has existed for 30 years. For 26 of those years it was primarily an in office job, only temporarily shifting to WFH, where applicable, in response to a full blown global pandemic. Now that the global pandemic is sufficiently wrapped up, they're trying to go back to business as they're used to.
You, a random internet person, are claiming you know what's better for their business than they do. You claim that the CEO and all the Presidents and VPs and everyone involved in the decision have no data backing them? They're all just making this decision with no logical basis or internal data? You really claim you know better than them what's good for their business? It's not their job to provide data to you, random internet person, about their internal functioning and what they think is best for their company.
Linking to literally .032% of their workforce signing a letter saying that it just isn't fair to go back into the office, while once again not providing a single piece of data to bolster that opinion, is not evidence that your opinion is right.
I can't read your second link because it's behind a paywall and thus not accessible to 99.9% of the people reading your comment.
The fact that I'm already downvoted to negative karma really highlights the strength of the echo chamber involved.
- anigbrowl 2y agoI can't read your second link because it's behind a paywall and thus not accessible to 99.9% of the people reading your comment. It opens just fine in an incognito window. Failing that, you could use an alternative browser that doesn't have any cookies set. Failing that, you could look it up on archive.org. This would have taken less time than fulminating at an internet stranger. This is Hacker News, after all.
- ipaddr 2y agoHackers are lazy at the core otherwise we wouldn't spend writing a program once so we never have to do it again. Someone could do all of those things you list or form an opinion based on the title. Which way do you think a hacker would take?
- anigbrowl 2y agoIt would be foolish to do all the things when one is sufficient. It's also foolish to rely on superficial things like titles (which are written by editors, not the writer).
- runnr_az 2y agoRandom smarty pants internet people always crack me up... like -- Amazon is super successful company. Like, maybe they know something about being a super successful company?
- no_wizard 2y agoSuccess in one arena does not mean success in another. Also, its doubly true that one of their core beliefs is being 'data driven' but no data on this has materialized, even the CEO admitted this is all 'based on gut feeling'. I don't blame people for calling that on its face, it flys against a purported core value
- runnr_az 2y agoGiven your obvious expertise and experience, I’m shocked that they didn’t consult you.
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- ipaddr 2y agoThey never win best place to work awards. Success for shareholders isn't success for employees.
- runnr_az 2y agoAMZN employees are very well compensated for their efforts. Hard to see this as an attack on the proletariat
- akira2501 2y ago> maybe they know something about being a super successful company? If being successful is simply a matter of knowing a few things then why aren't more businesses successful? Why wouldn't those employees in the know just leave and start their own business?