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I feel like Amazon’s internal culture did not survive Bezos leaving + Covid. All that’s left are a bunch of people desperately trying to survive and climb their
by QuiEgo 1y ago
I feel like Amazon’s internal culture did not survive Bezos leaving + Covid. All that’s left are a bunch of people desperately trying to survive and climb their way up (stepping over whoever is necessary to do so). It’s not about the customer or the business at all any more.
- Esophagus4 1y agoThe Iron Law of Bureaucracy[1] > in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who work for the organization itself. Examples in education would be teachers who work and sacrifice to teach children, vs. union representatives who work to protect any teacher including the most incompetent. The Iron Law states that in all cases, the second type of person will always gain control of the organization, and will always write the rules under which the organization functions [1] https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Jerry_Pournelle's_Iron_Law_of_Bureaucracy?utm_source=perplexity https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Jerry_Pournelle's_Iron_Law_of...
- rightbyte 1y agoThe exemple is bad. The union rep is in a parallel organisation. The admin can be FTE schemers and outdo teachers. But bad teachers have no edge on good teachers.
- chaostheory 1y agoDay Two came before Bezos left and Covid