Working with the river tribe
End of March: "We're switching to a new schedule and new location assignments to accomodate social distancing requirements while you essential employees continue to work to provide 90% of our tribe's profits. Management will be working from home."
Early April: "You all are doing so well. We're going to be providing additional compensation for your essential work during this dangerous and uncertain period. Please remember to keep following all social distancing guidelines."
April-today: "We're still working on the details for the additional compensation."
Last week: "Submit your questions for the cluster all hands" *everyone asks about additional compensation.
Today: "2.5 hours of blathering about success stories, safety updates, and just how awesome AWS is. Our morale has never been higher, even through the pandemic and the protests. No i'm not going to answer any questions from SEA because we're over. I hope you all have a safe, secure, and highly-available day"
I no longer feel bad about being late to work yesterday.
re: Working with the river tribe
@kelseyhusky Sounds to me like it'd be a good time for the techs keeping it up and alive to organize and provide some unscheduled downtime if compensation doesn't arrive. <..<
re: Working with the river tribe
@kelseyhusky I suppose the alternative would be folks turning off the on-call pages. <..<
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@Soreth Since corona, there is only one person who gets pages, and he's a manager. (the newest one) They shut down the on-call rotation, and no one wants to go back onto it until we get answers.
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@Soreth God i wish, but we're too easily tracked.