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• Vox Jason Del Rey on x

  An Amazon VP's resignation shows internal unrest is rising to the top

• @emahlee Emily Cunningham on x

  Amazon VP, @timbray resigns over #covid firings of me, @marencosta and others. Says Amazon “firing whistleblowers” is “evidence of a vein of toxicity running through the company culture. I choose neither to serve nor drink that poison.” Thank you, Tim. https://www.tbray.org/...

• @timbray Tim Bray on x

  Friday was my last day at Amazon: https://www.tbray.org/... [Server's running a little hot but give it time, it'll come through.]

• @doctorow @doctorow on x

  Now, @timbray - co-inventor of XML, Amazon VP and Distinguished Engineer - has resigned from the company in protest, walking away from $1m in unvested stock. https://www.tbray.org/... 2/

• @cindygallop Cindy Gallop on x

  ‘May 1 was my last day as VP and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Web Services, after 5 years and 5 months of rewarding fun. I quit in dismay at Amazon firing whistleblowers who were making noise about warehouse employees frightened of Covid-19.’ @timbray https://www.tbray.org/..…

• @cindygallop Cindy Gallop on x

  '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.' @timbray https://www.tbray.org/...

• @ashleyfeinberg Ashley Feinberg on x

  jay carney you're up, my guy https://www.vice.com/...

• @alibreland Ali Breland on x

  from tim's departing letter: “I'm sure it's a coincidence that every [fired Amazon whistleblower] is a person of color, a woman, or both.” last fall, google only fired trans and lgbt staff when it fired union organizers. i wonder who these companies think is expendable https://tw…

• @naomiaklein Naomi Klein on x

  This is a really big deal. An @amazon VP has resigned over the firing of whistleblowers and mistreatment of warehouse workers. And he is going public with the whole story. This kind of courage is what we need right now, in every workplace and walk of life. Thank you @timbray http…

• @robpegoraro Rob Pegoraro on x

  “The warehouse workers are weak and getting weaker, what with mass unemployment and (in the US) job-linked health insurance,” @timbray writes of quitting his VP job at Amazon Web Services in protest. “We need to put legal guardrails in place.” https://twitter.com/...

• @martinfowler Martin Fowler on x

  I admire the action @timbray has taken - resigning from Amazon to support covid whistleblowers https://www.tbray.org/...

• @aprilaser April Glaser on x

  A Vice President at Amazon resigned over the company's firing of tech and warehouse workers organizing for better working conditions at fulfillment centers during the pandemic. With this resignation he's forgoing over a million dollars in stock https://www.tbray.org/...

• @colestangler Cole Stangler on x

  Scathing letter from Amazon VP Tim Bray resigning over what he calls “firing whistleblowers.” https://www.tbray.org/... https://twitter.com/...

• @josephfcox Joseph Cox on x

  Bray said he went through the proper channels and by the book to voice his concerns first, before then resigning very publicly like this. On firing whistleblowers + toxicity: “I choose neither to serve nor drink that poison.” https://www.vice.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @pronounced_ing Celeste Ng on x

  “At the end of the day, the big problem isn't the specifics of Covid-19 response. It's that Amazon treats the humans in the warehouses as fungible units of pick-and-pack potential. Only that's not just Amazon, it's how 21st-century capitalism is done.” https://www.tbray.org/...