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Amazon cloud boss says employees unhappy with 5-day office mandate can leave (www.cnbc.com)

submitted 23 hours ago by FenrirIII to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

if he walked out it would have put that entire location, the rest of our team both locally and extended, in a much worse situation. What it wouldn't do is hurt the company or the executives.

That's not your problem, that's the company's problem. You still get paid the same. If you have issues, take them to your supervisor, and go on with your life.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Unfortunately that's not how it works.

Boss turns around and says "new responsibilies. Get after them." You're especially fucked if the work is the type of tasks you are already responsible for.

Sure, you can say no, or slow play it, but that just means you'll either get a shitty review or get fired.

I'm not justifying this, I'm recounting what often happens.

Downvotes are hilarious. Doesn't matter if you line it, it's how it happens around the world.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Except I don't still get paid the same. Someone walked out last year and put the whole team in a tailspin and the rest of the team paid for it when review time came around and since we missed so many deadlines due to staffing issues no one got any sort of substantial raise. And missing your once-a-year raise doesn't just impact your pay for that year, it impacts it for every year going forward.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

I'm not sure I'd want to work somewhere that penalizes me for someone else's faults.

Have you considered finding a union to bring to your workplace?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

So... most workplaces? Most companies have department wide goals and metrics that don't change just because half of a department walks. Even in good workplaces, hiring to "right size" a team takes time, and most of the time the work still needs to be done, and there's only so far management can stretch until it starts impacting external customers.

It sucks terribly. It's not fair. Life isn't.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Trust me, I don't want to work here either, but having spent 6 months looking for a job and eating through my savings and knowing that I'm in no position to do that again anytime soon, I don't exactly have many options. And yes, I've considered a union, but I also don't want to end up unemployed again so I'm not going to be the one to champion that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

If you have the job now, why would you quit and burn savings instead of searching while you have stable income?

And getting fired for attempting unionization is a pretty slam-dunk case for a labor lawyer, but I'm sure you wouldn't want to go through that hassle.