{"id":40527,"date":"2023-06-08T06:13:44","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T10:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=40527"},"modified":"2023-06-08T06:13:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T10:13:44","slug":"whiny-amazon-crybabies-dont-want-to-go-back-to-the-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=40527","title":{"rendered":"Whiny Amazon Crybabies don\u2019t want to go back to the office"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 \u201cHey, we need you to back into the office.\u201d The problem is, a lot of people don\u2019t want to go back and are throwing hissy fits.<\/p>\n

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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<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Amazon corporate workers staged a walkout on Wednesday to signal a \u201clack of trust\u201d in the company\u2019s leadership, in what is perhaps the most visible sign of dissent among the e-commerce giant\u2019s office workers in recent memory. <\/b><\/p>\n

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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. <\/b><\/p>\n

I think I\u2019ll go with the actual Amazon numbers. It\u2019s possible that a number of people \u201cWalked out\u201d while on their lunch break so were on their own time.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s push to get workers in the office at least three days a week. <\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re here because a lot of Amazonians feel in their gut that something is not right with the company,\u201d Eliza Pan, a former Amazon worker and co-founder of the Amazon Employees for Climate Justice group, said Wednesday at the walkout in Seattle. \u201cAnd there are a lot of signs of this, such as a rigid, one-size-fits-all return-to-office mandate.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n

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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\u2019t be having this discussion)<\/p>\n

The main in-person walkout began at noon local time outside Amazon\u2019s Seattle headquarters. Organizers also had a way for employees at other Amazon corporate offices to participate virtually, and livestreamed the event on Twitter. <\/b><\/p>\n

So they left the office at lunchtime? All I have to say is…Big Whoop.<\/p>\n

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.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If the Amazon managers have any stones at all, the answer will be short and simple.<\/p>\n