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Amazon 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: The numbers will likely soar even higher once the lockdown is 'eased' and people who were 'furloughed' are forced to finally face the reality that their job no longer exists because the economy, dealt the final death blow by the lockdown, can no longer support it. Those who begged the government for the lockdown, believing the media hysteria over a pandemic that never was, are likely to be quite disgruntled, indeed.
The UK's benefit system has been exposed by endless scandals in the last decade for failing to deliver what it is funded by the taxpayer to do, all the while, aided by shady MPs, it deflected blame on to the people who depend on it. In the past much of the British public were quick to scorn those who found themselves on welfare however with those numbers rising the true nature of the system will be revealed to a great many more and they will begin to see the true nature of what is a callous and corrupt system.
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