Re:Jeff Bezos Responds to the Amazon NYT Article
by venomsnake on Monday August 17, 2015 @09:19AM
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The email was [redacted]. We don't know what it is.
But in a way it is a time for action. Pushing your people to the extreme and caring about them are not mutually exclusive. Depending on Mr. Bezos' actions in a few days we will understand if the amazon toxic culture is policies stripped from a lot of nuance when made into soundbites or got that way by design.
And a CEO could indeed be somewhat isolated - at that level you see reports that have already passed a couple of levels of sanitation.
Re:Jeff Bezos Responds to the Amazon NYT Article
by Mithaldu on Monday August 17, 2015 @09:46AM
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> The email was [redacted].
Please clarify. The article does mention an email address. Twice.
Re:Jeff Bezos Responds to the Amazon NYT Article
by venomsnake on Monday August 17, 2015 @10:12AM
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Sorry. It was removed in the topic here on HN that quoted it. And i thought we were in it.
The CEO of a gigantic company, who's most likely already absolutely swamped in email, is asking people to email him at his direct, known-to-public address, which is most likely managed by a team of secretaries, instead of providing a specific target address along with instructions on how to send mail there anonymously.
I don't think anyone would dare take him up on that offer in the first place, and if he's really this deluded about it, he might end up taking zero incoming mails on this topic as "proof" that everything is fine.
That remark about contacting HR is also a little funny, since it seems like employees already consider HR to be enemy agents.