Amazon Analysis

Throughout American history, it’s society has glorified the idea of being gritty and its virtues, such as perseverance, toughness, and courageousness. These ideas were apart of the American man that settled land from the east the west coasts, built business from the ground up, worked multiple jobs to singly support his family, or if need be, go off to war. Today, these virtues have spread much further throughout society, but have started to take backlash from camps of people who see life’s potential more developed by the quality of a person’s environment, rather than seeing how well someone can adapt to broken situations. These two camps have lead to opposing ideas in society, from workplaces that pamper every aspect of your life to women’s

Companies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon all sport “dog-friendly offices, workforces that skews young and male, on site farmers’ market and upbeat posters” that portrait the new era of all encompassing, supportive company landscapes. The difference between these companies lays on the inside. While “Google and Facebook motivate employees with gyms, meals and benefits... ‘designed to take care of the whole you’”, Amazon has shifted away from this new rising philosophy, and runs its workplace with one simple word: grit. Amazon became the “the most valuable retailer in the country, with a market value of $250 billion” by putting each one of their employees against the exceedingly high standard of Amazon’s Leadership Principles. These standards include principles such as “ownership( No. 2) or mastery of every element of their businesses, and ‘dive deep,’ (No. 12) or find the underlying ideas that can fix problems or identify new services before shippers even ask for them.” Amazon’s rigorous standards breeds a high stress environment that keep employees always on edge and in competition with fellow employees to keep turning out good work “just to stay ahead of the executioner’s blade”. While one might think that too much stress might cause Amazon’s environment to crumble, instead Amazon has breed an environment in which “conflict brings about innovation”. The high stress

For women, almost every aspect of their life is critiqued. Women “must learn to be hungry” or fear ridicule for having “hairy legs and armpits”. Pain, mental or physical, is everywhere in a woman 's life, even beyond what their shamed constantly for from “the pain of rejection.... the pain of recovery... the pain of nursing... the pain of arguing with your husband while your child is on the other room”. At a certain point pain loses all its ability to be motivating or instructional, and just becomes pain. Emotional or physical, it makes no difference, the discomfort is a natural response for your body telling you to stop. For women, epidurals answer the simple question “why not do the thing that makes you happy?”. The pain that comes with childbirth is easily avoidable and no way necessarily to most women. When it comes to epidurals, the options are simple; Either you go against society telling you endure the pain and choose what’s right for you, or you suffer the pain and hope that somehow you learned your lesson. For most, it’s an easy decision to save the pain for