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Re:Amazon fires two UX designers critical of warehouse worki... by qppo on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @03:00PM (#22870035)
Why would you want to create a workplace without personal responsibility for decision making? All I'm saying is to make that personal responsibility public.

It's pretty telling to me that I'm being downvoted for saying that I think people should own up to their decisions in the workplace that impact other people and are questionable ethically. Removing any kind of moral liability for those decisions is how we wind up with businesses that employ good people that do shitty things to other good people.

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Re:Amazon fires two UX designers critical of warehouse worki... by freejazz on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @03:26PM (#22870347)
Because that would just require corporations to have a "fall guy", which is basically what a lot of executives are already. Vessels into which the corporation can dump it's moral debt.
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Re:Amazon fires two UX designers critical of warehouse worki... by A4ET8a8uTh0 on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @06:19PM (#22872184)
I just had a minor epiphany. This is exactly what compliance officer is supposed to be.
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Re:Amazon fires two UX designers critical of warehouse worki... by Zanni on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @05:56PM (#22871998)
But it sounds like your recipe for responsibility is mob justice. What other possible result could come from publicizing the name of "the person responsible" for the firing?
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Re:Amazon fires two UX designers critical of warehouse worki... by SaxonRobber on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @03:28PM (#22870380)
The corporate structure institutionalizes immorality, it cannot be avoided. By law shareholder profits come first, everything else is secondary to that goal.
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