Amazon vice-president resigned in protest, accusing the company of “toxicity” and creating an “atmosphere of fear”

The last straw, he said, was the dismissal of employees rally due to conditions in warehouses during the pandemic.

The Vice President of Amazon and one of the leading engineers of Amazon Web Services (the “cloud” unit of Amazon) Tim Bray told about the resignation of the actions of the leadership. He worked in the company for five years and five months: his last day on this place was May 1. Before Amazon, Brey worked at Sun Microsystems and Google, among other things, he was one of the creators of the XML marking language.

As for the salary and shares, this decision will probably cost me more than a million dollars before tax deduction. And this is not given that I lost the best work of those that I have ever had, and very good colleagues. So I am quite suppressed.

Tim Bray

The reason for the departure, Bray called the dismissal of warehous employees who protested due to working conditions during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. He called this decision of the company by the result of the “toxicity that penetrated” its corporate culture.

Here are a few phrases that you can describe the decision to dismiss activists in Amazon:

1. "Sykla";

2. "Kill the messenger";

3. "Effect Streisand? I never heard ”;

4. "Designed to create an atmosphere of fear."

Tim Bray

In an open letter, Bray mentioned several recent dismissals in Amazon. For example, the company broke up with a warehouse employee in New York, who in March called on the leadership to provide more masks and other protective equipment. In addition, two employees were fired from Amazon, who compiled and sent to colleagues a petition demanding to increase the deadline for paid leave for illness, payment for work in dangerous conditions and paying for children care-they also helped organize a conference-cell between employees about the work during the epidemic. Amazon’s protests were observed at once in several warehouses.

At the same time, Bray admitted that Amazon pays attention to security in warehouses. However, he noted that he believes ordinary workers.

In the end, the greatest problem is not how Amazon reacts to the Covid-19. The fact is that Amazon refers to warehous employees as interchangeable units, "take and packe." This is not only in Amazon is how capitalism works in the 21st century.

Tim Bray

Amazon did not respond to the requests of several publications. Earlier, she explained the dismissal of employees by violation of corporate rules during quarantine. Back in early April, Amazon said that she began to supply masks to warehouses and check the temperature of employees.

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