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[–] aaaaace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago

I once asked/complained about something and sent it to possible bezos email addresses, just guessing.

On a Sunday morning, I got a reply from someone from his office.

I thanked them for replying on the weekend.

Canceled my account last decade...

We're not going back.

[–] Bruncvik@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Must be a gold rush for companies that use the AWS infrastructure. My company is already trying to poach a few AWS engineers, with a WFH or hybrid contract.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 58 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Was headhunted for a position at Amazon. But the recruiter said "You might be doing more than your usual 9 to 5. (Min 40 hours)"

And I told her that I sometimes do like 30 hours a week and my team plays video games for the remaining 5-10 hours together.

And she actually got mad at me for saying that.

[–] SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 months ago

Had a similar experience with a random company that said that “we might work on the weekends sometimes” and I rejected that immediately.

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How dare you. She's skipping lunch and peeing in a bottle struggling to make recruiting quota but you're out here enjoying life? Shameless.

[–] undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

We colonised thier lives fair and square!

[–] EnderMB@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I hate to break it to you, but plenty of Amazon employees work weekends too, especially when big launch dates are coming up.

Source: Work in an org at Amazon where people have paged us regarding feature work on the weekend.

[–] draughtcyclist@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's the joke. We know Amazon is known for soul crushing long hours and weekends.

[–] EnderMB@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Eh, that part is known, but lately there are teams that have "officially" opened weekends as fair game. My org recently sent out an email stating that weekends would count as in-office days to entice people to work at the office to bump their RTO figures up.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 36 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Surely they're just gonna be left with visa slavery?

There's already an ick associated with working for Amazon, when they start cutting the upsides* why would anyone stick around? I'd personally take a pay cut to go elsewhere if my current job forced me to go in 5 days a week

*Though IMO hybrid working is no longer remotely considered a perk and is the expected norm in this industry now. Even before the pandemic, my previous employer already let us work from home once a week if you wanted to.

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Part of the problem is every tech company is churning. So it's hard to find places to hop to with similar pay.

Hell even friends I know are having tougher times just getting any job. Let alone FAANG level.

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I know many tech industry people that have been 5-10 months. It's a bad time to be looking for a tech job

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago

It is a strange situation where lots of people are retiring, but the jobs aren't there.

In Canada, the youth (15-24) has a hard time finding jobs, but nobody wants to work I guess.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 104 points 4 months ago (3 children)

The really special part is that Jassy is saying that he wants it to go back to like it was "pre-pandemic". Well, as a techie in Seattle, I can assure you that his new policy is much stricter than it was pre-pandemic. Being able to work from home was pretty lax back in the day, and they weren't tracking your badge-ins.

Very disingenuous. It's all about the shareholders, real estate investment, and pressure from city and business interests to get wallets back downtown at lunch time.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Very disingenuous. It’s all about the shareholders, real estate investment, and pressure from city and business interests to get wallets back downtown at lunch time.

Everybody should pack their lunch in protest.

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

I've started pre-announcement. Lunch prices are insane now.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

He wants to go back to how he assumed it was before the pandemic.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago

Sounds like a great way to lose a ton of your best employees.

[–] lemmylurkaround@lemmy.world 30 points 4 months ago

Zero shock. The moment they announced 3 days, I knew they were just doing it in chunks and 5 would come sooner or later.

[–] Blum0108@lemmy.world 27 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 16 points 4 months ago

I’m guessing that they are moving to 5 days in office. My wife works for an Amazon subsidiary and that’s what they have to do now. They were on 3 days before

[–] flames5123@lemmy.world 42 points 4 months ago

Amazon CEO is calling for 5 days a week in office, starting January 2nd.

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I hear next he's going to make them all watch prime video, oh the humanity!

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

Now with ads!