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puck ,

Corporate musicians still suck

emptiestplace ,

So that's who listens to this garbage...

AstronautOlympian ,

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'.

EnderMB OP ,

The article says what part of Amazon it was for. It's for logistics, not AWS, which is a separate division.

mosiacmango , (edited )

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.

snownyte ,

This is no different than seeing all of them old farts at the golf course. Taking breaks from fucking everyone underneath them over just to swing at a few holes they'll probably be tired half way of playing.

profdc9 ,

Yup, this is really maximize shareholder value. I can totally see this teambuilding event doubling dividends. Wait? You said the company never pays dividends and rarely buys back its stock? Wow, I am really seeing those profits!

DarkDarkHouse ,
@DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

WWRATMD

SDK ,

… With a pocket full of shells.

0ops ,

Probably not what they tell them

fraksken ,

Bayer is solving it a different way: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pharmaceutical-giant-bayer-getting-rid-111358398.html

sunbeam60 ,

They aren’t “solving it”, yet. They’re desperate to do something to wake up the stock and for investors to have some, any belief in the future of the business.

Whether they’re actually solving anything remains to be seen.

buddascrayon ,

It'll be very amusing to see that company to go down in flames.

Draedron ,

Bayer is one of the evilst companies in the world. Responsible for millions of deaths from AIDS

SuspiciousCatThing ,

The song "Dr. Aiden" by B.o.B. talks about this. I think it's a good song.

_sideffect ,

Maybe to defend Dave, he thought that he was just doing a concert for amazon workers in general?

I'm sure they didn't explicitly state that "this private concert is for execs only"

Sunforged ,

No pass granted. Amazon is currently hiring their anti-union lawyers as direct warehouse managers to fight the unionization efforts at KCVG Airhub. There is no excuse in 2024 to take a gig from this company and not understand who you are getting in bed with.

Support KCVGs union effort! They are the companies largest airhub and function as a critical choke point in their supply lines. A union win would be a huge success for unionization across all warehouses at Amazon.

_sideffect ,

You think Dave keeps up with all of this?

Sunforged ,

I don't care if he does or does not, the point is Amazon's ruthless exploitation of the working class is not an unknown fact.

Ignorance is not an excuse.

_sideffect ,

Lmao

"Hey you can't park here"

"There's no signs saying that?"

"I don't care if you know or not, don't be ignorant"

Sunforged ,

Idk what point you're trying to make. Are you saying we need to make signs for how Amazon abuses it's employees?

_sideffect ,

Do you think every person on the planet knows this information?

Sunforged ,

Yes dude, piss bottles in the warehouse are a meme at this point. Working conditions in the warehouses have been making headlines since people died due to overheating way back in 2013.

_sideffect ,

😂 Keep believing that everyone knows that. You have to open your mind as to exactly how much information is out there and who reads what.

Sunforged ,

Were you yourself ignorant to this?

_sideffect ,

That's irrelevant to my argument

Sunforged ,

Ok bud.

https://y.yarn.co/85ddc1c7-e588-458c-a9ab-2aaec2fd82d5_text.gif

_sideffect ,

🙄

aniki ,

That's not an excuse.

applepie ,

Pathetic

Isoprenoid ,

Dave will have a manager that knows this stuff. Do you think Dave does all the administration that is required to set up a concert? The guy probably has a team of people. There is no way that they didn't know. Amazon has a public reputation.

_sideffect ,

And you think his manager gives two shits about who he performs for? Money comes in, the manager books the gig.

You can't blame Dave then, if as you said his manager set it up, which was my original point

Isoprenoid ,

You can't blame Dave then.

If his manager set up a performance for neo-Nazis, you don't think Dave still has a say?

Dave: "Oh no, my manager set up that performance for the group of sex offenders. You can't blame me, I just play in the band."

Please.

_sideffect ,

Stupid counter argument

Is it stamped on their heads that they are neo Nazis or sex offenders? Lmao, come on.

Isoprenoid ,

Is it stamped on their heads that they are neo Nazis

You're right, sometimes it's hard to tell, especially when you can't see their foreheads. How else are we supposed to know?

How was Dave and his managers supposed to know that Amazon is a terrible company?

How

were

they

supposed

to

know?

/s

_sideffect ,

😂😂😂

Cold_Brew_Enema ,

Too bad the Foo Fighters are garbage, so they treated themselves to shitty music

zelifcam , (edited )
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    applepie ,

    Wtf does this even mean?

    Isoprenoid ,

    Essentially, if you're nice enough you're allowed to do something bad once in a while.

    It doesn't make sense.

    ganksy ,
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    The hate is proportional to the level of betrayal people feel. These people are scum(Amazon execs). Dave and the band rewarded them with a special people only concert for being extra parasitic on society. Shame is not unwarranted here.

    KRAW ,
    @KRAW@linux.community avatar

    I mean, I'm not exactly giving FF a pass here but rewarded is factually incorrect considering FF was paid to do the gig. The show wasn't some free pat on the back for the execs doing such a great job.

    ganksy ,
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    True but it's not like it was a life-changing payoff. If they didn't do this gig they could have been paid for a regular gig.

    KRAW ,
    @KRAW@linux.community avatar

    Again, not giving them a free pass. Just pointing out the terminology used is an overstatement.

    ganksy ,
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    Fair enough

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