Amazon engineer quits, forfeits US$1 million salary to protest firings at world’s largest online retailer

A senior Amazon.com engineer has resigned in solidarity with fired corporate and warehouse workers who protested working conditions at the company, the world’s largest online retailer and cloud services provider.Tim Bray, a vice-president and veteran engineer with the company’s cloud computing division, said in a post on his personal blog that he quit “in dismay at Amazon firing whistle-blowers who were making noise about warehouse employees frightened of Covid-19”.Bray, who worked in Vancouver…

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