Amazon VP Resigns & Blasts ‘Chickensh*t’ Company Over Fired Whistleblowers
VP and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Web Services, Tim Bray, has resigned after the company, which he dons “chickensh*t,” fired its whistleblowers who outed their failed coronavirus response.
In a scathing blog post, Bray announced that May 1 was his last day with the company after five years. He says that he “quit in dismay at Amazon firing whistleblowers who were making noise about warehouse employees frightened of COVID-19.” In his letter he names the victims as Courtney Bowden, Gerald Bryson, Maren Costa, Emily Cunningham, Bashir Mohammed, and Chris Smalls.
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Bray says, “Firing whistleblowers isn’t just a side-effect of macroeconomic forces, nor is it intrinsic to the function of free markets. It’s evidence of a vein of toxicity running through the company culture. I choose neither to serve nor drink that poison.” He explains, “VPs shouldn’t go publicly rogue, so I escalated through the proper channels and by the book. Remaining an Amazon VP would have meant, in effect, signing off on the actions I despised. So I resigned.”
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