Amazon engineer and vice president Tim Bray said he quit his lucrative job at the company over the recent firing of several employees who raised concerns about protections for warehouse workers during the pandemic.
"I quit in dismay at Amazon firing whistleblowers who were making noise about warehouse employees frightened of Covid-19," Bray wrote in a lengthy blog post published on his website.
Bray said he had worked at Amazon for more than five years; his last day at the company was Friday.
"Firing whistleblowers isn't just a side-effect of macroeconomic forces, nor is it intrinsic to the function of free markets.
"That done, remaining an Amazon VP would have meant, in effect, signing off on actions I despised.