Though it may not help your position, I wouldn't dismiss the idea that petty / bureaucratic staff are giving you the runaround.
I had exactly that happen with the Apple App Review squad. I managed to somehow offend a mid-level manager type and she purposefully kept moving the bar to get our app through review.
"Did I say you need one of those? I meant one or two. You need two."
I had an old contact there that was way up the food chain and he contacted her boss on my behalf -- who called and apologized and took the idiot woman off the case.
If I didn't have that contact, we would have been at the mercy of some worthless drone who wanted to flex her muscles.
Big tech absolutely should be broken up. There is no such thing as Amazon -- well, there's Amazon the monopoly, but the Amazon you deal with is one of a 100 rent-seeking fiefdoms staffed with people who got picked last in school.
Collectively they do much more harm than good. (And that's ignoring the more pressing problem of political bias and censorship.)
Creating a tmp account to roast minimum wage workers, classy.
Feel free to go work as a reviewer at amazon/apple if you feel like you can improve the process. I'm sure you'll enjoy getting 20% of your current salary + being treated like an animal by basically everyone.
I had exactly that happen with the Apple App Review squad. I managed to somehow offend a mid-level manager type and she purposefully kept moving the bar to get our app through review.
"Did I say you need one of those? I meant one or two. You need two."
I had an old contact there that was way up the food chain and he contacted her boss on my behalf -- who called and apologized and took the idiot woman off the case.
If I didn't have that contact, we would have been at the mercy of some worthless drone who wanted to flex her muscles.
Big tech absolutely should be broken up. There is no such thing as Amazon -- well, there's Amazon the monopoly, but the Amazon you deal with is one of a 100 rent-seeking fiefdoms staffed with people who got picked last in school.
Collectively they do much more harm than good. (And that's ignoring the more pressing problem of political bias and censorship.)