 So I wanted to share this story. This is absolutely infuriating. So this is an Amazon employee so she made the grave sin of daring to suggest that maybe if Amazon employees are gonna work on Juneteenth, which is a holiday they receive holiday pay and what Amazon did to her just for making the mere suggestion is absolutely Unacceptable but totally predictable if you know anything about Amazon. So she says Amazon illegally trying to silence our voices I posted an invitation to petition on the VOA board I believe this is the voice of associates board for Amazon employees and they called me to the GM's office Said they take it down and then took away my permissions to post violation of law of the law and discrimination so We're gonna get to what she posted So they had this forum essentially for employees to do exactly what she did and She got in trouble for it and they stopped her from posting there You do not have permission To view and post on the site. So this is what she posted folks. Ask yourself. Um, does this warrants? getting penalized here So on 621 AA spoke to GM for holiday pay on Juneteenth Dismissed ALU put together a petition and is gathering signatures over 50 plus now presented again Felipe confirmed that he wouldn't use any energy effort to make positive change for workers So you're invited to come sign the petition for well-deserved holiday pay at the ALU tent speak up for yourself and help make history Is this really something that should should warrant? Getting called into the GM's office getting scolded and losing your posting privileges privileges on the VOA board. I mean It's comparable to like trying to gather petitions and support for a company picnic, right? If you get enough people to agree to it sure you can you can have a company picnic or whatever or some event For her to get banned from the board is insane now. Thankfully There's a little bit more to this story So This is from Jordan Sheridan. He says Amazon HR brought in Dana a black female worker and accused her of solicitation For organizing a worker petition for Juneteenth Back pay how petty is Amazon? I mean we saw how desperate they were to crush the union which by the way the teamsters got involved but like think about how petty Amazon is now thankfully Jordan Sheridan Interviewed her and there's a little bit more details to the story that she shares. This is So like Amazon is insufferable They are insufferable as many complaints as I had when I worked at Walmart It seems like Amazon is like Measurably worse in so many so many ways and Walmart is terrible like they have no respect For for anyone. Yeah, Amazon is Walmart on steroids Man, okay, so let's watch this. This is courtesy of Jordan Sheridan of status coup Petition to our general manager Felipe and he dismissed it again said, oh, no, we're not even gonna consider it And I told him you're not even going to make a phone call an effort one effort to put this into into play into practice He said no so that's when I went on the VOA board and I told everybody look He's not gonna make an effort so it's up to you come out to the tent You're invited to come sign the petition so we can present this again every 50 signatures We're gonna do this. He called me in a couple of days later General manager general manager sends his senior assistant or something of HR to talk to me and say hey This is against company policy. You're soliciting. We don't do that here and we're gonna take the comment down I said, I'm just gonna put it back up. I'm not soliciting or selling anything. That's the definition of the word You don't understand that look it up. That's what it is and I was very very nice about it You know very very nice, but still it's against my freedom of speech to actually put that up And you could do the right thing by law and keep the comment up. I will say just the correction It's not technically a freedom of speech violation because that would be the government trying to silence you But I mean still if your employer is silencing you that's still very bad it's it's It's pretty authoritarian, which is why I am a proponent of democracy in the workplace But that's neither here nor there I'll let her kind of finish because this story is it It makes me hate Amazon even more up there. He said no, well, we're gonna remove it and they'll be for the consequences I love her persistence Because it's it's not like Amazon employees are making enough like Amazon the reason why they said that their workers don't need a union It's because they pay them $15 an hour But we all know that in the event they had a union they'd be making well over $15 an hour So the fact that like they're so mad that this one employee Had the audacity to ask for a holiday pay on a holiday and back pay when they didn't get holiday pay It's just it's they're so petty. But I mean, I love her persistence. I love that. She didn't back down. So whenever I dealt with you know the bureaucracy in these large corporations, I never I Never did things like this I would just give up because anything that you wanted to recommend They just they don't listen to you. I remember it when I worked at blockbuster I made the grave mistake of we were selling DVDs There were four for $20 and we had some five for $20. So here's what I did that was so egregious I printed up my own sign on my on my printer at home that said four for 20 five for 20 Because we didn't have any of the signage for additional tables that I set up and When my district manager came she's like you've got to take that down and I'm like I've got to take it down She's like you can't have any non corporate sanctioned Signage up so this is a violation and it's like okay in the event We actually get like the fucking big wigs from dish network, which is who owned blockbuster at the time come in Are they gonna literally fire me or something because I put up a fucking printed sign? Because I wanted to make sure that customers knew the prices of the DVDs that they were purchasing. It's just Holy fuck, but I mean this is the thing with these corporate these corporate companies. They're so fucking petty So, you know, I could have tried to elevate this and tell the district managers to take it to the regional manager But it's like it doesn't it literally doesn't matter They have zero desire to listen to anything that employees say because you are a peon you are You know less than a cog in the machine. You are nothing to them They don't care at all and look I was the store manager of And I couldn't even hire employees by myself like it was they they're like listen This is basically your store. You're the manager. This is your home So feel free to do what you what you want to do use your own Opinion discretion we trust you. That's why we made you the manager and like I Couldn't even hire people. I had to have the district manager come out and approve She then had to take it. I believe to others to approve for a higher just to hire someone part-time for minimum wage It's just it's so frustrating. It's it's Corporations are petty. They're out of touch and anyone like this who gives them hell Immediately earns my respect immediately. I love that