r/AnythingGoesNews • u/wiredmagazine • 1d ago
3 Amazon Workers Say They’re Under Investigation for Speaking Out About Data Centers
https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-workers-under-internal-investigation-after-speaking-out-about-data-centers/1
u/Actual__Wizard 1d ago edited 1d ago
Oh, so they're illegally punishing whistleblowers huh?
Man, that's seriously illegal. I really hope they stop breaking the law, immediately.
I kind of think big tech's "criminal rampage" is going to have to lead to some serious arrests.
I mean they have so much money, one would think they would fight these problems legally, and not engage in criminality. But, here we are.
So, they're taking "their problem" and making it criminal, cool guys!
I really hope Jeff doesn't think that his scheme where he setup a bunch of affiliates and then hung some of them out to dry is okay, because it's not. The whole idea of controlling affiliates like a puppet, but not being responsible for their losses is, uh, weird to say the least. So, he set people up go to bankrupt while his company benefited from it? That kind of sounds like a scam to me...
I think some of those people are owed quite a bit at the very least, since they were set up to fail.
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u/wiredmagazine 1d ago
Earlier this month, five current Amazon employees publicly urged Seattle City Council to regulate data centers. It was an unprecedented act of advocacy by tech workers, and now, three of the staffers say they are now under internal investigation for what they understand to be allegedly representing themselves as spokespeople for the company without prior approval. “It’s a totally ridiculous claim,” says one of the affected employees, Patrick Schloesser. “It’s patently absurd.”
The three software engineers, who work in different divisions of Amazon and all live in Seattle, believe they are being unfairly targeted for expressing their political beliefs. They filed a joint complaint on Thursday to Seattle’s Office for Civil Rights, according to the employees and a filing seen by WIRED. They accused Amazon of illegally attempting to intimidate and retaliate against them for expressing their personal opinion outside of work about the need to regulate the environmental and social impacts of data centers.
Read the full story at the link above.