Whiny Amazon Crybabies don’t want to go back to the office

Good day all. Thanks to the Great Panicdemic of 2020, many companies told their employees to work from home. I was one of them and was forced to work in my home office which was not set up for a separate environment for my company equipment. As soon as we were let back into the office, I was back. Now companies are telling people “Hey, we need you to back into the office.” The problem is, a lot of people don’t want to go back and are throwing hissy fits.

One group whining about having to return to the office are Amazon employees. These are office workers, not the people in the warehouses. These special snowflakes are going to show how displeased with Amazon they are by walking out. Here are the details from CNN:

Amazon corporate workers staged a walkout on Wednesday to signal a “lack of trust” in the company’s leadership, in what is perhaps the most visible sign of dissent among the e-commerce giant’s office workers in recent memory.

On Wednesday afternoon, organizers of the walkout said more than 1,000 corporate employees participated in the event. Amazon disputed that figure, saying it estimates approximately 300 people participated in the event.

I think I’ll go with the actual Amazon numbers. It’s possible that a number of people “Walked out” while on their lunch break so were on their own time.

In an email the night before, organizers had said more than 1,800 Amazon employees committed to join the walkout to call attention to employee frustrations on multiple fronts, including the company’s push to get workers in the office at least three days a week.

“We’re here because a lot of Amazonians feel in their gut that something is not right with the company,” Eliza Pan, a former Amazon worker and co-founder of the Amazon Employees for Climate Justice group, said Wednesday at the walkout in Seattle. “And there are a lot of signs of this, such as a rigid, one-size-fits-all return-to-office mandate.”

I hate to tell you this snowflake, but prior to the panicdemic, everyone was expected to go to work in the closest office. (Most companies have a range outside of which you are considered a remote worker) If the Panicdemic had never happened, (Say Fauci did something right and retired when Obama left office…or croaked, we wouldn’t be having this discussion)

The main in-person walkout began at noon local time outside Amazon’s Seattle headquarters. Organizers also had a way for employees at other Amazon corporate offices to participate virtually, and livestreamed the event on Twitter.

So they left the office at lunchtime? All I have to say is…Big Whoop.

The walkout was jointly organized by Amazon Employees for Climate Justice and a remote work advocacy group, according to an email from organizers and public social media posts. Workers participating have two main demands: asking the e-commerce giant to put climate impact at the forefront of its decision making, and to provide greater flexibility for how and where employees work.

If the Amazon managers have any stones at all, the answer will be short and simple.

One thing these special snowflakes may not be considering is that we are moving into really tough economic times. Amazon and all the Big Tech companies have been reducing headcount. What these morons have done is put a nice big “Fire me!” sign on their backs when the next round of layoffs happens.

At the same time, Amazon and other tech companies are trying to get workers into the office more. In February, Amazon said it was requiring thousands of its workers to be in the office for at least three days per week, starting on May 1.

“Morale is really at an all-time low right now,” an Amazon corporate worker based in Los Angeles, who plans on participating in the walkout, told CNN last week after the plans were announced publicly.

Think about how low your morale will be when you are laid off and can’t find another job because the President* YOU voted for has run the economy right into the dumpster, and set it on fire. The simple fact is, you are an employee of Amazon. Unless it was agreed to in your employment contract, you are expected to come into the office.

I know that I prefer to be working in the office for a number of reasons. One, it’s being able to walk over to another team and asking a question, and then getting an answer right away instead of using the internal ticketing system and instant messaging tools. It also allows you to get feedback from your team mates much more quickly. Finally, I prefer to be around other people. (I don’t care to talk to them, it’s just handy they’re there so I can if I feel the need)

Frankly, if there is another round of layoffs at Amazon, every single one of these morons should be shone the door. I have worked for companies where there were “Problem” employees and rather then go through the whole rigmarole of justifying their termination, simply put them on the list of the next bunch to be let go, which let the company keep people that didn’t rock the boat and got the job done. It’s long past time that these snowflakes learned that real life doesn’t provide you with participation trophies.

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