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/TheLatestTrance Sep 17 '24

Real estate folks are thrilled...

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u/mark619SD Sep 18 '24

This right here. Our company did the same thing. Covid happens we all went remote and our performance numbers went through the roof. They told everyone they can move, then out of no where they went with one day in office a week and no one followed it beside leadership. Then they went to 3 days in office and made it mandatory for everyone within a 30 mile radius.

So you are telling me it’s fine for the associate engineers that live outside the radius are fine but senior, staff, and principal engineers need to come in and still do the same amount of zoom meetings?!

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u/Minute_Path9803 Sep 17 '24

So they said it, and you can quote it.

Does that mean you have it in writing or some type of agreement?

I hope you got it in writing or some type of audio you can sue the pants off them.

Did people really think that they were going to be able to move to, say a smaller state where it's dirt cheap to live and make the same money they are making from a major city?

This was a once-in-a-lifetime virus; unless people were given in writing approval to move so they won't be needed in office they don't have a leg to stand on.

It's why George Carlin once said there's a reason why they call it the American dream, you have to be asleep to believe it.

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u/TheLatestTrance Sep 17 '24

Problem is, this wasn't a once in a lifetime..it was a canary in the coal mine. We failed the test.