From Click to Brick: Amazon's Office Odyssey

From Click to Brick: Amazon's Office Odyssey

Jeff Bezos woke up this week with his head spinning, no, not from a trip to the moon and back inside one of his Blue Origin space ships, but because Amazon, the company that revolutionized online shopping, has decided the best way to run an internet business is to get everyone offline and into the office.

Meet Sarah, a four-year "software engineer" at Amazon who's never written a line of code. Her expertise? Prompt engineering and AI wrangling. Her current task? Creating a "Quit Now" button using the "Buy Now" template.

"It's hilarious," Sarah chuckles. "You can cancel your employment faster than your Prime membership - six clicks versus one!"

As Amazonians reluctantly shuffle back to their cubicles, Slack watches its user count plummet from 30,000 to 10,000. "We didn't see that coming," a Slack spokesperson admits, eyeing their suddenly precarious revenue stream.

Meanwhile, Sarah's team scrambles to recreate their digital workflow in person. "We're shouting across cubicles to simulate Slack channels," she explains, while furiously scribbling on a whiteboard labeled 'Physical Cloud Storage'.

As the irony thickens, Amazon accidentally creates a new product category: "in-office remote work solutions." Because nothing says 'innovation' like forcing digital natives back into the analog world.