© Alan Berner / The Seattle TimesAmazon workers stand at their stations in a Kent warehouse, which employs 2,500 people who handle goods coming in and out. Computer screens are ubiquitous, giving workers information about their tasks and running updates on their rate per hour.
Tim Bray, a senior Amazon software engineer, has resigned from his role at the company after five years, citing "dismay" over Amazon's decision to fire outspoken critics of its labor practices.
In a fiery
blog post, titled "Bye, Amazon," Bray, a vice president at Amazon Web Services (AWS), said his last day at the company was Friday. Bray said he "snapped" after Amazon
fired Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa, two former user experience designers who criticized Amazon's climate stance and, most recently, its treatment of warehouse workers amid the coronavirus. Amazon has said it fired Costa and Cunningham for "repeatedly violating internal policies."
"I quit in dismay at Amazon firing whistleblowers who were making noise about employees frightened of Covid-19," Bray wrote in the blog post, adding that "remaining an Amazon VP would have meant, in effect, signing off on actions I despised. So I resigned."
Bray did not respond to a request for comment. Amazon declined to comment on Bray's resignation.
Comment: Very fishy. One wonders if Liu was on the verge of beating Bill Gates to the punch. Or maybe his work exposed the man-made modifications in SARS-CoV-2...
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