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Re:Ask HN: Amazon employees how do you feel about Bezos' han... by natalyarostova on Friday April 03, 2020 @02:01PM (#22772248)
If we took PPE we're receiving and gave it to Whole Foods employees and warehouse workers, that means taking it from the hospitals that are running out. Do you think that Amazon is making the wrong choice, and should prioritize its warehouse workers over hospitals? It's not a fun choice to make.
Re:Ask HN: Amazon employees how do you feel about Bezos' han... by mav3rick on Friday April 03, 2020 @02:10PM (#22772343)
Is this what Amazon is telling you inside ? How about the Whole Foods email about asking employees to donate their time off to other sick employees. In these times they should go above and beyond to help their employees. Instead, it's one insensitive thing after the other.
Re:Ask HN: Amazon employees how do you feel about Bezos' han... by natalyarostova on Friday April 03, 2020 @10:03PM (#22775606)
Well Bezos said this publicly as well. I’m not interested in giving a whole sale defense of everything amazon does. It’s a huge company. But there is a world shortage of PPE as you’ve probably noticed, so if we diverted supply to ourselves over delivering it to hospitals, that seems like the wrong call. Don’t you think?
Re:Ask HN: Amazon employees how do you feel about Bezos' han... by rdtwo on Saturday April 04, 2020 @11:16AM (#22778703)
It’s kind of an interesting quest though where is PPE most effective. Somewhat counterintuitively it might make more sense to deploy it where the contact quantity is Is the highest like grocery stores as opposed to where individual risk is highest at the hospital