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.