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Re:Amazon's Silent Sacking by spenczar5 on Saturday December 30, 2023 @06:25PM (#38820303)
Twitch did the free food and snacks thing. When acquired by Amazon, Twitch opened a Seattle office, on a floor of an existing Amazon building. We got to keep getting free food!

Every day around lunchtime, hungry Amazon workers from adjacent floors would quietly try to slip in to get a sandwich or a kebab or whatever, or would surreptitiously attempt to get a bag of chips.

Eventually the Twitch side started to complain: there was never enough food to go around at lunch time. If you were more than ten minutes late, all the food would be gone.

The Amazon management’s response? Lock off the Twitch floor so it required special badges for access. Let the Amazonians starve!

Re:Amazon's Silent Sacking by chihuahua on Saturday December 30, 2023 @08:06PM (#38820874)
That is exactly what I expected to happen.
Re:Amazon's Silent Sacking by Rebelgecko on Saturday December 30, 2023 @11:03PM (#38821672)
TBH I expected that everyone would lose the free food
Re:Amazon's Silent Sacking by chihuahua on Saturday December 30, 2023 @11:06PM (#38821687)
That will happen a bit later
Re:Amazon's Silent Sacking by wyclif on Saturday December 30, 2023 @11:50PM (#38821892)
True. The badness is almost always incremental.
Re:Amazon's Silent Sacking by nradov on Saturday December 30, 2023 @10:44PM (#38821551)
The last thing most tech workers need is more chips.
Re:Amazon's Silent Sacking by tonyedgecombe on Sunday December 31, 2023 @08:34AM (#38823930)
Yeah, free food looks like a negative to me.