• breadsmasher@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    cutting head count without “firing” people. standard capitalism bullshit.

    stop using amazon. let it rot.

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      17 days ago

      It’s easy to avoid buying things from Amazon. It’s hard to avoid AWS. It would be insane to try to suss out what provider everyone that I buy stuff from uses, and their third party relationships. Regulation is better.

      • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.todayOP
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        17 days ago

        Yep, try browsing with ublock origin blocking all Amazon domains. Lots of things break because AWS is so large.

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        16 days ago

        The best way to do this is to correlate downtime with main providers. If a cloud provider goes down when AWS has outages on related services, it’s probably using an AWS service.

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        17 days ago

        That links says only a quarter did it because they wanted people to quit, so it suggests that chances are this is not the reason Amazon is doing it…and you’re posting while claiming it factually proves this is their motivation? Pretty deceiving.

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          I personally read this as “one quarter admit they did it to get people to quit”. If you think these folks are always transparent and honest, think again. They’re just trying to say whatever gets them the least amount of bad PR

          This is effectively a layoff without benefits.

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            17 days ago

            Your position hinges on the survey not being anonymous. I clicked through and found nothing that claims it was not anonymous, and these things are normally done anonymously for exactly the reason you point out: less honesty.

            Do you have anything to back this up or is it simply that holding this belief helps confirm what you already believe to be true?