The “anonymous” survey asked this question with two choices: I agree or I’m looking for opportunities elsewhere

Nobody is saying what they are doing is illegal. And complaining is what people do to vent, you don’t have to read it.

It’s seems par the course for Amazon to just treat employees as disposable, and they’ve burned so many regions’ working populations’ proverbial bridges that I recall LTT highlighting an article saying Amazon can’t find people to employ because they’ve already cycled through everyone.

Anecdotally, I’m suddenly getting recruiters from AWS asking to interview me, and it all makes sense now. They want to replace the remote workers with new people who don’t complain. Fuck that, and fuck them if they think people should be apathetic to this strategy.

That would piss off the voting base that actually votes though

Probably the same people who use git cli instead of ide plugin equivalents

Well, don’t think their IT positions are competitive when it comes to salaries, compared to major tech companies. Also considering their offices are in Vancouver, you probably aren’t going to work their to make bank.

It’s a bit of a selection bias out of necessity…

Well run cost center departments don’t boost quarterly results, ergo they are deprioritized.

They are looking out for themselves rather then the company, because of the incentives in place.

We are living in weird times where stock price doesn’t really correspond with company health, so their actions reflect against that metric against all others.