Amazon engineer quits, forfeits US$1mil to protest firings


Amazon has been fighting the spread of coronavirus cases in its logistics network and a public-relations battle against critics who say the company hasn’t done enough to make warehouses safe. — Bloomberg

A senior Amazon.com Inc engineer has resigned in solidarity with fired corporate and warehouse workers who protested working conditions at the company.

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 whistleblowers who were making noise about warehouse employees frightened of Covid-19”.

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