I can’t find much about this gig online, but the Setlist.fm page lists this as a ‘private event’ for Amazon Web Services.
AWS is not the part of Amazon where employees have to piss in bottles. It’s their cloud hosting subsidiary, and the most profitable part of the company. I also can’t find any mention that it’s just the executives of AWS either. It seems more likely to me that this would have been open to the employees of AWS in general as it is the most profitable part of Amazon and the crowd in the pictures seems quite big if it were only made up of ‘AWS executives who like the Foo Fighters’.
Its a yearly event that collects directors and above fork across the company to a week long “convention” that is supposed to be about building cohesive between leadership.
The author went in 2022, when they had bon jovi play, and said it was just a boozy networking event where leadership was dictated to by the execs with no actual exchange of ideas.
In 2022, Amazon made a record profits, but even then they were admonished to save money. Still, no layoffs.
This year? They also made record profits, but had record layoffs, yet the party goes on.
The authors overall point is that Amazon is successful by asking people to “lean in,” to go the extra mile. When you freeze wages and layoff 10,000s of people while threatening more and still throw your 10 million dollar party for yourself, you are telling good people to not only leave, but to lean right the fuck out before they do.
I can’t find much about this gig online, but the Setlist.fm page lists this as a ‘private event’ for Amazon Web Services.
AWS is not the part of Amazon where employees have to piss in bottles. It’s their cloud hosting subsidiary, and the most profitable part of the company. I also can’t find any mention that it’s just the executives of AWS either. It seems more likely to me that this would have been open to the employees of AWS in general as it is the most profitable part of Amazon and the crowd in the pictures seems quite big if it were only made up of ‘AWS executives who like the Foo Fighters’.
Its a yearly event that collects directors and above fork across the company to a week long “convention” that is supposed to be about building cohesive between leadership.
The author went in 2022, when they had bon jovi play, and said it was just a boozy networking event where leadership was dictated to by the execs with no actual exchange of ideas.
In 2022, Amazon made a record profits, but even then they were admonished to save money. Still, no layoffs.
This year? They also made record profits, but had record layoffs, yet the party goes on.
The authors overall point is that Amazon is successful by asking people to “lean in,” to go the extra mile. When you freeze wages and layoff 10,000s of people while threatening more and still throw your 10 million dollar party for yourself, you are telling good people to not only leave, but to lean right the fuck out before they do.
The article says what part of Amazon it was for. It’s for logistics, not AWS, which is a separate division.