Submitted 6 months ago by EnderMB@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/22/ghaderi_v_amazon/
Ghaderi claims Krishnakumar later pressured her into delaying the start of her maternity leave from the planned date of November 7. Agreeing to the request, she worked until November 15, 2022, “the day she was forced to undergo an emergency C-section,” according to the filing.
What the actual fuck!?
delaying the start of her maternity leave
“Hey, can you give birth a little later? It’s totally going to hurt our performance metrics.”
The thing that gets me is that it doesn’t even hurt performance metrics. The performance of this type of employee is not measured in hours worked. That extra week made zero difference to the company but had an immense impact on her.
Soon it’ll be, ’ give birth in our facilities then you can work when you’re finished with labour, don’t worry we can provide education and daycare as long as you sign an indentured servitude for you and the new employee’.
You’ve never worked for a death cult before? Anyone above an l9 at Amazon is a sociopath.
“Amazon specifically told me to ignore IP laws. That’s wild, right?
On an unrelated note, did you know that there’s now a torrent with infohash 5e007531c6e7c8d23a957f828c0632b4c57b5078 that compiles all of Kindle books and Prime videos? Crazy stuff!”
Which tracker?
It’s fictional :(
I don’t care all that much that she was asked to. I care that she did.
It doesn’t sound like she did if you read the article. She was assigned to point out when their shit broke their own copyright policies; she did and was then transferred to a different task a few times, basically setup to fail, before being canned.
transferred to a different tasks a few times, one of which being to rework the entire AmazonBot network storage system to reduce its size by 75% in 8 days (a task engineers told her was impossible even if she understood the system), basically setting her up to fail, before being canned
I’m pretty sure that that is also illegal.
Highly doubt anybody ever "asked"
She did it and she knew not to say stupid shit to legal so they don't flag it.
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
“Hello, we’re <insert multi billion mega corporation here>. Laws and rules do not apply to us. Go ahead. Give us a fine. Sue us. Whatever amount you request is mere crumbs to us.”
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Fines should be a percentage of annual revenue, not a fixed dollar amount. That way it will hurt a large company just as much as it would a small one.
randompasta@lemmy.today 6 months ago
The GDPR fines are. Other laws should be similar.
subignition@kbin.social 6 months ago
This is why we need a corporate death penalty.