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		nobodyandproud on May 8, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon abruptly fires senior managers tied to unio... The rules of unionization need to change with the times. The line manager making less than a SWE 1 isn’t in the same league as senior management who own a significant portion of the company equity. Even software engineers are subjected to the meat grinder in Amazon.

rolandog on May 10, 2022 [–]

Indeed. I feel the benefit of unionizing for managers is making the buck stop earlier in the trickle-down chain of bad policies or orders.

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