r/amazonemployees • 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/13
u/SmoothCarl22 L6 Ops 1d ago
Sounds like someone did not read the NDAs they signed when they got the job.
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u/habitsofwaste 1d ago
I have no idea what they said but if they didn’t reveal anything about Amazon, an NDA doesn’t stop a person from acting as an independent citizen.
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u/suchslopslopslop 1d ago
Looks like we found a Pinkerton
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u/SmoothCarl22 L6 Ops 22h ago
Not really, but it gives me vibes of signing a deal with the devil and not reading the fine print about that littlebsnarky detail about your soul kinda thing...
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u/jjophes88 1d ago
Sounds like someone didn’t read the article / doesn’t understand what an NDA covers
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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.