Re:“Standing Up for Us Plebs.” Amazon Leaders Reject Policy ...
by ncmncm on Friday December 10, 2021 @02:29PM
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This is just whataboutism.
Yes, for any sort of maltreatment, you can identify somebody else engaging in worse. Precisely because of this fact, identifying somebody else worse tells you exactly nothing.
Yes. Could be unrelated, could be related. We can't run a clinical quality controlled experiment to make that determination.
My initial point was that Amazon has produced stunning innovation while maintaining this HR policy. So at the very least, it doesn't appear to have held the company back in a meaningful way.
Much of the framing of stack ranking in these comments is that it is deeply inhumane. Over time, this type of framing undermines our conception of what actually inhumanity looks like. For reference, China's treatment of the Uyghurs is inhumane. Malaysia's treatment of the Rohingya is inhumane.
This claim is a laughable, being made by wealthy, coddled people who are complaining about a company's approach to accountability. But here's the thing, if someone can get a job at Amazon, they can get a job at just about any company. Particularly in tech, which has seen an imbalance of labor supply and demand for going on 30 years. So I say again, if you don't like stack ranking, don't work at Amazon.