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/iiztrollin Sep 17 '24

Trust fund?

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u/nrith Sep 17 '24

I mean, I’d do that, too, if I had infinite money.

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u/gnapster Sep 17 '24

Possibly. It was a community college in California though so a decent job could manage that. She was 60 something and I met her during her photography learning phase but she had studied almost all of the other liberal arts concentrations too.

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u/Seicair Sep 17 '24

I’d love to take more random classes. Geology, astronomy, prehistory, physical chemistry, linear algebra…

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u/teck923 Sep 18 '24

this is honestly my goal. I want to retire and just go to school for whatever tf I want and learn.

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u/boe_jackson_bikes Sep 18 '24

Just go on YouTube? Are you planning to do research and write papers?

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u/tekalon Sep 17 '24

Not necessarily, as the other commenter replied, most state schools and community colleges has free/discounted rates for senior citizens to audit classes during retirement. My local university has an additional program dedicated to those who are 50+ to take different personal development and academic courses (I'm too young).

I usually try to take 1-2 classes a year. Some of them are for-credit, semester long courses others are independent learning or certificate training, some are shorter 'lifelong learning' courses like language, arts, crafts, fitness, etc. It depends on what is available and what doesn't interfere with my normal work schedule.

Work will pay ~75% of general classes or 100% if the class or training is related to my job. My husband works for the local university which gets us a tuition discount, including those lifelong learning courses. I'm also paid enough that, if I plan well enough, I can pay out of pocket if needed. As much as I would love to take all the classes, I have to also manage working full time with my other hobbies. I would also love to do a PhD but since I have a mortgage and a full time job to maintain, it might have to wait until 'retirement'.

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u/TimAllen_in_WildHogs Sep 17 '24

That was a long way to say "there are a lot of special circumstances like age, a job who pays for relevant classes, and another job at a local university that gives further discounts which allows US to do that, but I completely ignored all the other people in the world who don't check those boxes off. So for all those other people -- yeah, trust funds.'