Posted on 09/30/2024 11:55:58 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Agrowing number of Amazon employees are “rage applying” for other jobs in the wake of CEO Andy Jassy’s mandate to return to the office full-time at the start of the new year, according to a report.
One Amazon worker who had become accustomed to working from home during her tenure at the company told Fortune magazine that she learned of the new mandate from a story in the news media rather than from her superiors.
“Honestly, I’ve lost so much trust in Amazon leadership at this point,” said the employee, who identified herself as Laura.
She was incensed that the new mandate means she would need to add four hours to her weekly commute.
“I’ve been updating my resume and portfolio, and rage applying to new jobs on LinkedIn,” Laura said.
After her initial shock, the employee eventually made peace with the verdict, stating that “my time at Amazon has to end.”
“At first, I didn’t quite believe it,” she told Fortune. “After all, who expects to get career-altering news from a news article instead of your employer.”
Laura said she was hired by Amazon during the pandemic with the understanding that the company did not expect her to have to report to the office.
Last year, Jassy told corporate employees that he wanted them “back to being in the office together the majority of the time,” which translated to three days per week. Jassy sent out his new directive two weeks ago.
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I know someone who makes pretty penny who bought a big house a long distance from their Amazon work location, due to remote work being secured.
It seems something may come to an end.
These low effort workers will be passing through the economy for the next 50 years. I pity their future supervisors and HR depts.
She’s gonna have to remove Amazon as her last employer, otherwise, the potential new employers will know why she’s leaving and would not be a fit for office work.
Taking yourself out of the employment pool is never a good idea, is you need the work.
And do these “ragers” think other companies exclusively work from home? I hope these idjits make WFH a condition of any new employment upfront on any application. Pretty soon they’ll have plenty of time waiting in the line at the soup kitchens and homeless shelters.
That sucks for them. I work with a lot of people who do remote, or hybrid, and complain when they have to drive 60 plus miles in to work a couple of days a week, and handful of them willingly moved further away.
McDonalds gets new employees
They ought to organize and strike if they don’t like the change in work conditions. Too bad unions don’t sell stock. Some real growth opportunity.
I guess her commute now is about 15 seconds. Maybe it’s just me and where I live, but a commute of just 25 minutes each way is pretty nice. If it’s just two days a week and an hour each way, that’s only an hour each way twice a week, which is also pretty nice.
That is a problem. “I don’t like the office” isn’t a good answer to any interview question.
As it is, the WFH experiment is probably going to come to an end. Between the goofs who install software to mimic keystrokes and mouse movements and the people who use WFH to run side businesses with hostile nations, this is simply not sitting well with corporate (and GOVERNMENT) heads.
Within a few years, I’ll either be working in an office again or sitting out on a street corner with a cardboard sign.
“she learned of the new mandate from a story in the news media rather than from her superiors”
A hint why 100% remote does not work in most cases, you are detached from the office comms because she probably only pays attention to slack or some other chat app on top of working maybe 3-4 hours a day.
oh well. show up to work or get fired.
Amazon will learn something.
These folks will learn something.
The market will adjust.
Perhaps Amazon wants to reduce staff and is innept and cowardly at deciding, do will do it this way. It will reduce numbers.
But this will also reduce excellent workers who bought hoyses thinking they could remote work, not just laxy ones.
Better to single out poor performers, but that requires hard work and guts, not HR.
The market will adjust.
These leaving workers will accept work from home jobs and God loves them. Homeschool PLEASE.
I used to one way 43 miles to an office. I liked it. It was a choice not to pay big city prices for housing, avoid the urban goobers, better schools, and crime. Plus, it was a 45+ minute ride home I would either call family and chat on way home or be totally left alone to do what I wanted (music, stop somewhere etc...) with no interruption. Nobody bothered me.
Oh Boo f***ing Hoo. You don’t like it? Start your own business.
That was the plan.
SWeetie——
WHEN YOU ARE WORKING 2 jobs every day—standing on your feet at each job-—8 hours +++ about another 4-6—Then you can gripe.
YOU have no IDEA what it means to ACTUALLY WORK.
NO SYMPATHY FROM ME AT ALL.
I am fluently bilingual Spanish-English and cheerfully drive an hour and 15 minutes to Austin five days a week. Anyone looking for a highly motivated worker for whom you do not need to provide healthcare? Send me a PM and let’s talk about what can be done to improve YOUR bottom line. :)
How are those workers going to homeschool their kids if they're actually working full-time from home as they are supposed to be doing?
These people believe there are tons of remote jobs out there. There are not. The numbers drop daily. Many companies advertise them but they want you to live nearby or in specific states. In some cases, applicants report they are hunting top end talent willing to work for less.
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