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Re:Bye, Amazon by cstross on Monday May 04, 2020 @07:14AM (#23066631)
He may not be planning on a "next gig" — he's 64, so edging close to retirement. I'm assuming as a corporate VP at that age he's probably got his pension sorted: he probably feels able to make a principled stand in a way that, say, a 34 year old (or a 44 year old) couldn't.

Even so, good on him for speaking out.

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Re:Bye, Amazon by GateCrasher on Monday May 04, 2020 @09:03AM (#23067494)
I just checked his Wikipedia entry. He will have to try a bit harder to become "radio-active" for potential employers...
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Re:Bye, Amazon by lopis on Monday May 04, 2020 @09:07AM (#23067536)
> he's 64

That definitely puts things in a different perspective. It can't really damage his career much when his career is 20+ years old. At this point, if he doesn't have his own side gig, lots of companies, big and small, would still want him.

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Re:Bye, Amazon by phatfish on Monday May 04, 2020 @09:43AM (#23067932)
It also shows how brave those who were younger and ended up getting fired rather than resigning were.
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Re:Bye, Amazon by StavrosK on Monday May 04, 2020 @11:46AM (#23069391)
Unless there's a company that is actually decent, and prides itself on having an exec that would quit on the first sign of a misdeed.

"See? You can trust us, otherwise Tim Bray wouldn't still be working here."

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Re:Bye, Amazon by ignoramous on Monday May 04, 2020 @01:03PM (#23070531)
I don't think a single trivial misdeed but really a culmination of things leading up to it and the scale of it all that broke the camel's back.
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