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>>perfun+(OP)
I know a guy who works at Amazon. The person who spammed the internal email list soliciting participants for this is no longer at the company.

Survey sent in the email: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZSJH2G3

>>throwa+J2
> The person who spammed the internal email list soliciting participants for this is no longer at the company.

I could understand this from the AMZN shareholders point of view: as an employee of the company you are paid to defend private interests, not public interests.

>>krn+Y4
> as an employee of the company you are paid to defend private interests, not public interests

So all that "stakeholder capitalism" recent discussion was pure BS? [1]

[1] https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/investor-relations/larry...

>>pagane+57
That should come from the top, not from the bottom of the company. It's not the responsibility of a lower level employee to define what his company stands for. Everyone is free to work for a company that matches his values.

>>krn+Z8
> Everyone is free to work for a company that matches his values.

No, they are not. Maybe it is true for a select group of people (computer programmers, some lawyers, some medical professionals), but the vast majority of people are not "free to work" and choose any company that matches "their values". Which makes protests like this one even more important and noteworthy, as those people protesting are risking a lot more compared to the "privileged" professions I mentioned above.

>>pagane+1a
> Which makes protests like this one even more important and noteworthy, as those people protesting are risking a lot more compared to the "privileged" professions I mentioned above.

The profession doesn't matter at all, because anyone can go to the streets and protest to defend public interests. But attacking your own employer is not a solution. Why not to look for a job at NGO, or get involved in a non-profit startup instead? Oh, it doesn't pay well enough? Then you have to come into an agreement with yourself.

>>krn+kb
Wow... it's been a long time since you bootstrapped yourself through minimum wage jobs and had do work for anyone who would take you until you could save enough to start to crawl up out of that cycle...

Took me a tour in the military to change my overall chances in life.

And there aren't enough NGOs and startups to absorb thousands of Amazon workers anyway... hence having to get the warehouse jobs in the first place.

If employees aren't allowed to lobby / strike / speak out for better behavior of their own employer, no one else is going to have better leverage to encourage change either.