They must really need another round of layoffs without severance.

Fuck… I was doing coffee badging recently. 5 days is a lot to just drive to the office and back. I need to look for other dev jobs in Seattle that actually respect their employees, but the market is gonna be so cold after this announcement.

I have until January 2nd apparently.

At least they still haven’t said a minimum time in the office yet…

I work for Amazon. People are NOT happy.

Sadly, this is exactly what Jassy wants. Amazon are desperate for people to leave, and this is another push towards this.

It'll be interesting to see what happens, but given that I'm unable to go to the office more than 3x a week due to having a young family to look after, my time.here is clearly limited - unless I'm able to work something out.

There is a strong remote advocacy group at Amazon, but the best that was mustered last time was a one hour protest during lunch. This might be the catalyst for people to say "fuck it, let's unionize", but I'm not confident.

No bathroom breaks, piss at your desk in a jug!

People need to stand firm against the needless RTOs and demands to be present in a workplace where your work consists largely of things you can do safely from the privacy of your own home.

Without more mass resignations when companies start to roll out RTOs like this; they will never learn. If you work at such a company; start looking for another job, even if you are willing to work in the office a few days a week. Punish them harshly for enforcing RTOs.

“We want to operate like the world’s largest startup”

Yeah, that’s not how it works when you get over 1000 people. And it’s definitely not how it works when you get over a million people.

Startups work because the product is small and everyone can be consulted and looped in with ease. Massive companies need thoughtful processes and communication practices to work.

This is hard to do well, and any time someone says they’re going to work like a “large startup,” you’re putting yourself in company with a number of other stupid leaders who have received some dumb advice from 20 year olds at McKensey or Deloitte.

Amazon shares ticked lower in afternoon trading.

I'm gonna have a really great laugh if/when the share price nose dives because office personnel start bugging out.

This whole "I want us to operate like the world's largest startup" crap is just infantile for the CEO of a multi-national conglomerate to be spouting and making into corporate policy. No one wants to work for a multimillion dollar "startup" with over a million and a half employees.

Working for startups is stressful as fuck and the incentives are to get a piece of the pie once the startup goes big. Amazon is already massive and the pie has already been eaten by those who came before. All they have left is corporate stability and he's just kicked the legs out from under that.

Hopefully everyone else watches the fallout of this and don't follow suit.

I'm surprised the insurance companies haven't forced companies to walk back their RTO policies. More sick days, more injuries, more medical expenses.

I'm not buying anything on Amazon for the next 90 days. Who is with me? I could quit Twitter but I don't know about a permanent quit of Amazon...

Thats all the days?!

Asked my buddy who is an L7/Principal at AWS with years of experience if this would affect him. He laughed. Said he had already decided to quit in January. This just clinched it. Said they kept hiring entry-level L4s. Lots more senior people going to leave.

Wait. My schedule is 4x10, do I have to come in fifth day?

This is bullshit.

Amazon is also flattening its corporate structure by having fewer managers in each organization.

Ah I see. Forcing out workers under false pretenses. Par for course, Amazon and Bezos are shit eating bottom dwellers.

How about you run your face over a belt sander.

Thank christ my company downsized offices during rona and they couldnt physically fit all of us in if they tried

Emboldened oligarch in a plutocracy.

But also kleptocracy and really a kakistocracy disguised outwardly as an aristocracy or neo-monarchy as Raskin said.

Outside of just saying "America" or "Capitalism" How do we combine all of this into one satisfying, effective term?

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