Last October, Dan quit his job at Amazon. He’d been looking to leave for a while; he was bored and unsatisfied. But then one morning in mid-September, a memo from the very top tipped him over the metaphorical edge.
“Hey team. I wanted to send a note on a couple changes we’re making to further strengthen our culture and teams,” the now infamous note from CEO Andy Jassy started. Buried in the tenth paragraph was the real zinger — a line that made Dan, who’d been working in New York City, want to smash the phone he was reading the memo on: “We’ve decided that we’re going to return to being in the office the way we were before the onset of Covid.”
