{"id":176617,"date":"2020-05-04T18:47:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T23:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/05\/04\/heroism-someone-put-their-money-where-their-mouth-is\/"},"modified":"2020-05-04T18:47:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T23:47:00","slug":"heroism-someone-put-their-money-where-their-mouth-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/05\/04\/heroism-someone-put-their-money-where-their-mouth-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroism: Someone Put Their Money Where Their Mouth Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Amazon VP Tim Bray, just quit <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2020\/05\/amazon-vp-resigns-over-companys-chickenst-firing-of-whistleblowers\/\">citing what he calls the &#8220;chickensh%$&#8221; behavior of the company toward whistle-blowers<\/a>, who they had aggressively harassed and fired.<\/div>\n<p>This guy probably made 7 figures a year over this, and he walked away over the toxic company culture promulgated by Jeff Bezos.<\/p>\n<p>If more people did this, and did this as <b>LOUDLY<\/b> the world would be a far better place:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Amazon VP Tim Bray, who had been with the company for more than five years, has resigned in protest of Amazon&#8217;s treatment of warehouse workers and the firing of other employees who spoke out. <\/p>\n<p>The company <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2020\/04\/amazon-fires-at-least-3-employees-who-criticized-workplace-conditions\/\">fired multiple warehouse and office workers<\/a> in recent weeks amid organizing efforts to improve conditions in the company&#8217;s distribution centers, where individuals have contracted COVID-19. Firing the whistleblowers is &#8220;evidence of a vein of toxicity running through the company culture,&#8221; Bray said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tbray.org\/ongoing\/When\/202x\/2020\/04\/29\/Leaving-Amazon\">blog post<\/a> explaining his departure. &#8220;I choose neither to serve nor drink that poison.&#8221; <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The alpha and omega of the particularly nasty nature of Amazon is its founder and CEO Jeff Bezos.<\/p>\n<p>It is literally a part of its DNA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon VP Tim Bray, just quit citing what he calls the &#8220;chickensh%$&#8221; behavior of the company toward whistle-blowers, who they had aggressively harassed and fired. This guy probably made 7 figures a year over this, and he walked away over the toxic company culture promulgated by Jeff Bezos. If more people did this, and did &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[365,368,364,522,465,590],"class_list":["post-176617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-corruption","tag-evil","tag-heroism","tag-labor","tag-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}