<story><title>Amazon&apos;s Global Quest to Crush Unions</title><url>https://newrepublic.com/maz/article/167263/amazons-global-quest-crush-unions</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ozzythecat</author><text>Amazon’s game is squeezing out every ounce of value they can.&lt;p&gt;I worked in one of the Seattle buildings. It was still a culture of people crying at their desks, incompetent managers being checked out or just stressing out everyone around them.&lt;p&gt;Then you had the more seasoned people who figured out how to play the game. Something is broken or had some outage?&lt;p&gt;Find a way to blame another team. Think of the most sleezy used car sales manager you’ve met in the finance office of a car dealership. Now give them a “Sr. software development manager” role. That’s Amazon for ya.&lt;p&gt;Managers going on vacations to Hawaii while their teams are slaving away over the weekend to meet unrealistic deadlines. Utter lack of leadership. A house of cards held together by H1Bs and other visa situations where people put up with it out of fear of losing their jobs and having to leave the country.&lt;p&gt;I pray the government breaks up that scam. It’s a stain on humanity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>goostavos</author><text>Just to give a minor counter point, I&amp;#x27;ve been at Amazon for 5 years. In that time, I&amp;#x27;ve been in two different orgs and 4 different teams. All in Seattle. I&amp;#x27;m yet to see people crying at their desks.&lt;p&gt;The trick to happiness at Amazon is staying the hell away from anything tier 1 -- or, hell, just anything with direct lines to external customers. Those &amp;quot;9s&amp;quot; we give are delivered on the backs of engineers. I&amp;#x27;d for sure break down and cry too if I was getting paged 50 times per week because the response time of some subsystem went outside SLA by 5ms.&lt;p&gt;Chill org, chill life.</text></comment>
<story><title>Amazon&apos;s Global Quest to Crush Unions</title><url>https://newrepublic.com/maz/article/167263/amazons-global-quest-crush-unions</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ozzythecat</author><text>Amazon’s game is squeezing out every ounce of value they can.&lt;p&gt;I worked in one of the Seattle buildings. It was still a culture of people crying at their desks, incompetent managers being checked out or just stressing out everyone around them.&lt;p&gt;Then you had the more seasoned people who figured out how to play the game. Something is broken or had some outage?&lt;p&gt;Find a way to blame another team. Think of the most sleezy used car sales manager you’ve met in the finance office of a car dealership. Now give them a “Sr. software development manager” role. That’s Amazon for ya.&lt;p&gt;Managers going on vacations to Hawaii while their teams are slaving away over the weekend to meet unrealistic deadlines. Utter lack of leadership. A house of cards held together by H1Bs and other visa situations where people put up with it out of fear of losing their jobs and having to leave the country.&lt;p&gt;I pray the government breaks up that scam. It’s a stain on humanity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>s3r3nity</author><text>And yet, Amazon continues to be a highly ranked employer [1] consistently.&lt;p&gt;Last I checked, these employees don&amp;#x27;t _have_ to work for Amazon.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnbc.com&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;amazon-is-the-no-1-company-to-work-for-in-2022-according-to-linkedin.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnbc.com&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;amazon-is-the-no-1-company-t...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>