shalafi@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Despite lemmy thinking CEOs are useless, they’re usually the most important person in the company because they set the tone. That tone rolls downhill. Show me happy or sad employees, I’ll tell you what kind of leadership they have.
Bezos set the grind culture when Amazon was starting, and that’s fine for a startup, what has to be done. But he never backed off, and now we get shit like this, 100% on him.
Sometimes you have to grind at a shit job to work your way up, I get it. But there appears to be no level at Amazon where you’re not under the gun.
Awkwardly_Frank@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
But why should anyone have to grind at a shit job? If your business can only survive by grinding people down, maybe society would be better off without it. If the only way we can get same day delivery is over the burnt-out, permanently injured ex-employees of a multi-national, is it really worth it? Maybe that start-up never should have made it. Maybe strong labor laws should have forced them to scale back their ambitions or close their doors.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
I don’t wanna just say “this”, but for real, excellently put.
“But we just have to abuse people for a little while until…”
Then it’s not a viable business model. Easy as that.
Cooperatives are a thing, and they work, they just don’t scale like cancer by generating hype-funding over destroying their employees, so they don’t drum up so much excitement from the moneyed.