Longtime Amazon VP Tim Bray just quit in dismay, calling the company 'chickens---' for firing workers who criticized it

https://news.yahoo.com/longtime-amazon-engineer-quit-dismay-111341522.html

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-engineer-resigned-treatment-warehouse-whistleblowers-2020-5

Charlie Wood
May 4, 2020

A longtime Amazon engineer and vice president said he "quit in dismay" over Amazon's firing of whistleblowers who raised concerns about warehouse employees scared of contracting COVID-19.

Writing on his personal blog, Tim Bray said that remaining in his job "would have meant, in effect, signing off on actions I despised." He said his last day at the company was May 1.

"I quit in dismay at Amazon firing whistleblowers who were making noise about warehouse employees frightened of COVID-19," he wrote.

"What with big-tech salaries and share vestings, this will probably cost me over a million (pre-tax) dollars, not to mention the best job I've ever had, working with awfully good people. So I'm pretty blue."

Bray described the firing of activists as "chickenshit."

The tech giant has fired multiple employees who criticized working conditions at its warehouses.

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