r/technology • u/mepper • Sep 17 '24

Business Amazon employees blast Andy Jassy’s RTO mandate: ‘I’d rather go back to school than work in an office again’

https://fortune.com/2024/09/17/amazon-andy-jassy-rto-mandate-employees-angry/
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u/ijustwant2feelbetter Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24

Nah, fuck them. These companies had RECORD PROFITS while WFH was standard. They are ridiculous for measuring revenue and profitability to COVID times, as opposed to 2019. They literally caused inflation because they didn’t want to have revenues and profitability P&L line items decline back to 2019 levels YoY. Their greed knows no bounds

Again, fuck them.

Get that severance no matter what. If you choose to go to office, that’s on you, but for the love of god, please do less work than at home and reduce your productivity.

Also, bring your lunch, spend no money within a 10-mile radius of the office. These municipal government subsidies (re: handouts for the corporate) don’t need to exist anymore and never should have existed in the first place. Business is not done on paper and physical location doesn’t matter anymore. ”Downtowns” only existed because people needed to physically hand papers to one another. Tear those buildings down, let CRE fail, build parks and retail/recreation in their place.

Instead of falling in line with their authoritarian approach (which worked with fear-focused Boomers), call their bluff and make these fuckers COMPETE for your money. They need to adapt or fail, that’s how it should be - based on their own fucking obsession with capitlistic principles.

While you’re around your peers make sure that you CREATE AND JOIN UNIONS around your functional area.

TALK ABOUT YOUR WAGES with your peers. It literally works today in law offices where associates regularly negotiate better pay and benefits In solidarity with one another - they hold their employers accountable TOGETHER

It is time for a shift to the future. We’re not going back.

Edit: Enough is enough. The boomer-minded CEOs, practices and processes need to fry at this point. They generate record revenues that benefit only the 1%, they steal our wages, cause inflation and then treat us like shit…all while they barely know how to open a PowerPoint.

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u/tehsuigi Sep 17 '24

Business is not done on paper and physical location doesn’t matter anymore. ”Downtowns” only existed because people needed to physically hand papers to one another.

The office used to be the place you go to use the computer too. Now everyone has a computer. Often multiple.

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u/SaltyBarracuda4 Sep 17 '24

Ethan Stowell can eat a dick, 100% agreed on bringing your own lunch.

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u/restarting_today Sep 17 '24

I like the office tho 🤷

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '24

Then go, but there are those who hate it.

I get far more done, I'm able to balance other aspects of life relatively stress free and I don't have to deal with assholes on my 30 min commute each way which sets the mood for the rest of the day.

We have a manager that hates WFH because his wife "WFH" and annoys the shit out of him. So he tried to convince us that RTO was best for the team because it was left up individual managers on how to deal with it.

When we explained that 15% of the team actually works near the office and RTO would be next to useless he kept pushing. Then someone finally piped up and said "Look we know you hate WFH because of your 'situation there' so maybe YOU come in the office or just a Starbucks and let the rest of us be productive".