Posted on 06/01/2023 3:03:13 PM PDT by thegagline
Hundreds of Amazon employees briefly walked off the job Wednesday, calling on the company to reconsider its return-to-office mandate and curb its greenhouse gas emissions.
Outside Amazon’s Seattle headquarters, standing underneath a banner that urged the company to stop its “short-term thinking,” Pamela Hayter told her colleagues she wasn’t nervous about speaking out anymore.
“We’re here today because it’s the right thing to do,” the Seattle-based program manager said. “I’ve not been nervous. I’ve been fired up.”
On Wednesday, nearly 2,000 Amazon employees joined the walkout, according to organizers who gathered pledges before action took place. Of those pledges, roughly 900 had planned to gather outside Amazon’s headquarters in South Lake Union while another 1,000 would join from offices elsewhere.
Amazon for its part estimated that about 300 people in Seattle walked out. By either measure, the protest amounted to a small fraction of the company’s workforce in the city.
During the one-hour demonstration, workers held signs that read “Amazon: Strive Harder,” referencing one company leadership principle stating Amazon must “strive to be Earth’s Best Employer.” They chanted “sound the alarm … we’re together, braver than ever.” They listened to speakers advocating a more flexible remote work policy, and for Amazon to make better progress toward its climate goals.
Outside of Seattle, workers set their status on the Slack instant messenger platform to “WALKOUT” and shut their laptops for an hour. In a Slack channel advocating for remote work, employees sent pictures of their own walkouts from Miami, Chicago, London and Brussels, as well as offices in Virginia and Idaho.
“Today looks like it might be the start of a new chapter in Amazon’s history,” Eliza Pan, a former Amazon employee, told the group gathered in Seattle. “Tech workers are going to stand up.” ***
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I totally disagree with your post.
Offices are concentration camps in most cases—stupid bosses holding endless stupid meetings.
Before I retired I worked at home for several years—it was wonderful and our “virtual” team out performed any of the office drones.
The drones got to attend office meetings to get yelled at about how they couldn’t meet our numbers!
lol
The best revenge is living well.
GMTA
Hmmm....just how do the “work from home” crybabies do a ‘walkout’?
Hayter colleagues, partial: Colleagues at Amazon
Aabhaas Gupta,Software Development Engineer II
Aabid Amin, Investigations Specialist
Aadhithya Chandrasekar, Program manager - WW - Selection onboarding - Retail business services
Aadil Ahmed, FC Associate
Aadil Imam, Assistant,
etc.
And these are just the letter A.
Well sure, when all the have to do is cross an unsecured border and immediately get a 500% pay raise, you'd take the job too.
Let them walk....and not com back. There’s plenty of people flooding the border that will step right up and do the job.
I suppose you think they walked that distance for the fresh air.
Of course not. Don’t be stupid. It’s one big shake down, they get an immediate 500% raise crossing the border illegally, and the greedy employers on our side have no problem giving them jobs. Profits regardless of consequences.
If you were to get an immediate 500% raise, you too would work 10x harder with a smile on your face. C’mon.
And most of them send their money back home, looting the American treasure along with millions of their buddies.
These Amazon employees are haters.
On the other hand, I think it is a crime on the part of our leadership that the border is porous and continues to be so. Allowing this to happen is treason.
Do you happen to have any financial interest in commercial real estate?
Better life my ass. They want your money and what ya got. You’re an American hater..I get it.
You are not capable of reading and then applying rational thought. You are a simpleton.
JR ‘Bob’ Dobbs!
On Wednesday, nearly 2,000 Amazon employees joined the walkout, according to organizers who gathered pledges before action took place. Of those pledges, roughly 900 had planned to gather outside Amazon’s headquarters in South Lake Union while another 1,000 would join from offices elsewhere.
Amazon for its part estimated that about 300 people in Seattle walked out.
and the real world?
My team is spread out across the country. We only get together once a year for a two day meeting.
With the right internet connection I can do my job from pretty much anywhere.
WFH is the only good thing to come out of the pandemic. It's made smart businesses realize they don't need office space for the most party.
There are some who love the office environment. Not me. I don't want to be around all the wokedokes.
You guess wrong.
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