re: #76 Charles Johnson

By the way - on that NYT article slamming Amazon for being a terrible place to work. I mentioned yesterday that I talked to a friend who works at Amazon and he told me the NYT piece was wildly exaggerated; he enjoys working for Amazon and said it was challenging, but very rewarding.

Here’s a piece at Medium by another Amazon employee who’s basically saying the same things with much more detail: medium.com

I don’t trust the New York Times very much when they do these hit pieces. They go into some stories looking for a negative angle and will write it that way no matter what they find, in my opinion.

I used to work at a 400 person publisher where a woman was basically all but threatened with dismissal, because she had the temerity to have breast cancer while employed there.

I’m sorry; but I’m having a hard time believing that shit doesn’t go on at Amazon. Maybe not to the degree as stated in the article, but if it happened in a relatively small workplace like mine, it’s happening there.