{"id":961470,"date":"2025-09-13T11:11:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T05:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=961470"},"modified":"2025-09-13T11:11:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T05:41:44","slug":"amazon-suspends-engineer-who-sent-threatening-letter-to-ceo-andy-jassy-saying-i-am-left-with-no-choice-but-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/13\/amazon-suspends-engineer-who-sent-threatening-letter-to-ceo-andy-jassy-saying-i-am-left-with-no-choice-but-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon suspends engineer who sent &#8216;threatening&#8217; letter to CEO Andy Jassy, saying: I am left with no choice but to\u2026."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has suspended a Palestinian software engineer who criticized the company&#8217;s business ties with Israel through internal communications, according to CNBC reports. Ahmed Shahrour, who works for Amazon&#8217;s Whole Foods division in Seattle, was placed on paid suspension following posts on company Slack channels and a letter to executives including CEO Andy Jassy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has come to Amazon\u2019s attention that a post you made in multiple internal company Slack channels may violate multiple policies,\u201d Shahrour received in a message from an Amazon HR rep, per CNBC. The company, as per the message, is said to be investigating the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has suspended a Palestinian software engineer who criticized the company&#8217;s business ties with Israel through internal communications, according to CNBC reports. Ahmed Shahrour, who works for Amazon&#8217;s Whole Foods division in Seattle, was placed on paid suspension following posts on company Slack channels and a letter to executives including CEO Andy Jassy. \u201cIt has come to Amazon\u2019s attention that a post you made in multiple internal company Slack channels may violate multiple policies,\u201d Shahrour received in a message from an Amazon HR rep, per CNBC. The company, as per the message, is said to be investigating the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}