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[–] [email protected] 71 points 11 months ago (5 children)

To think this is a problem with just Amazon is silly. This is every American corporation. The executives of every major corporation in this country treat themselves very very well on company dimes while their workers all languish in starvation wages. The only way to fight this is to raise the minimum wage to something that is livable for the average worker. The government needs to force these companies to behave. They will never and I mean abso-fucking-lutely never choose to treat their workers with respect and dignity by paying them a decent living wage.

And the politicians that are in all of their pockets will never ever go against their corporate masters. The only way to make them listen is to get every single American to acknowledge that this is something that is needed and then push their politicians to do it or threaten their jobs by voting for someone else. This goes for both Democrats and Republicans, not quite equally but there's definitely a few Democrats that need to be replaced.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

My last job, we removed two departments and fired them all, then forced to have a "virtual retreat" to save money. Three months later, they showed a PowerPoint how this was their best year ever.

By that point, I was already looking for a new job.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I can't find much about this gig online, but the Setlist.fm page lists this as a 'private event' for Amazon Web Services.

AWS is not the part of Amazon where employees have to piss in bottles. It's their cloud hosting subsidiary, and the most profitable part of the company. I also can't find any mention that it's just the executives of AWS either. It seems more likely to me that this would have been open to the employees of AWS in general as it is the most profitable part of Amazon and the crowd in the pictures seems quite big if it were only made up of 'AWS executives who like the Foo Fighters'.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Its a yearly event that collects directors and above fork across the company to a week long "convention" that is supposed to be about building cohesive between leadership.

The author went in 2022, when they had bon jovi play, and said it was just a boozy networking event where leadership was dictated to by the execs with no actual exchange of ideas.

In 2022, Amazon made a record profits, but even then they were admonished to save money. Still, no layoffs.

This year? They also made record profits, but had record layoffs, yet the party goes on.

The authors overall point is that Amazon is successful by asking people to "lean in," to go the extra mile. When you freeze wages and layoff 10,000s of people while threatening more and still throw your 10 million dollar party for yourself, you are telling good people to not only leave, but to lean right the fuck out before they do.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

The article says what part of Amazon it was for. It's for logistics, not AWS, which is a separate division.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago

The real question is, how many pee bottles did they force Dave Grohl to fill in order to make his song quota in time?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

… With a pocket full of shells.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Bayer is one of the evilst companies in the world. Responsible for millions of deaths from AIDS

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The song "Dr. Aiden" by B.o.B. talks about this. I think it's a good song.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

"Dr. Aiden"

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They aren’t “solving it”, yet. They’re desperate to do something to wake up the stock and for investors to have some, any belief in the future of the business.

Whether they’re actually solving anything remains to be seen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

It'll be very amusing to see that company to go down in flames.

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