More layoffs, more profits.
The full 30,000 jobs would represent a small portion of Amazon’s 1.58 million employees, but nearly 10% of the firm’s corporate workforce. The majority of Amazon’s workers are in fulfillment centers and warehouses.
It would be the largest layoff in Amazon’s three-decade history. The company trimmed about 27,000 jobs in 2022.
Amazon’s 1.58 million employees
No company should be able to have more than, say, 10.000 employees. After that, you’re too big to fail. Companies need hard caps on how large they can grow, both in number of employees, as well as in net worth. A y income it makes over that hard cap should go 100% to taxes.
Same for humans. We need hard caps on how much a single human being can own, be worth. No person should have a networth over 1 million dollars. Any income over that goes 100% to taxes
Two simple rules that will change the world. We can keep capitalism, all fine, just cap how much a human being can have as a net worth
Don’t you worry, they will make a hard cap for you and me, but politicians, billionaires, CEO, etc. will be excluded from that… People just need to watch all the anti-humans participating and speaking at the World economic forum, which is unofficial world changing platform that nobody had elected to do so, just because they are rich and powerful. Those anti-humans need to be separated from their heads.
I’m down for this but I will personally have a secret stash that goes over the limit
CEO Jassy attributes cuts to company culture, not financial or AI reasons
just his idea of fun, basically
‘Trimmed’
Would be nice to stop using such sanitized language to describe how horrible and unjustifiable these actions are from unfathomably wealthy & tax evading corporations.
Why would anyone ever work there. Every time I have gotten hit up by their recruiters, I kindly tell them that I could never work for a place so hostile to employees.
Not to say that I would willingly choose to work at Amazon, but I do know the reason. It’s documented here: https://www.levels.fyi/companies/amazon/salaries/software-engineer
My girlfriend worked for Amazon doing finance stuff around a decade ago. They treated their software engineers like royalty and everyone else like robots. She said they had open bars and chefs preparing gourmet meals on demand that only the tech staff could use, while she was brown bagging her lunch every day. Maybe that’s common in that industry, I don’t know, but hearing that made me laugh because it sounds so Amazon.
Amazon has never been like that, Google has had more perks like that in the past, but Amazon has always been much more frugal.
They pay more than average for pretty bad working condition
The majority of their employees are in warehouses. They have more than 1 million employees. Most people don’t have options, even white collar workers are outmatched in the employment relationship when they depend on income to survive month to month. Few are those who have the relativve luxury of employer political alignmnet.
People can barely feed themselves. The federal minimum wage hasn’t gone up in 19 fucking years. Think about the implications of that in a high inflation environment. That is work for no pay essentially.
Trust me, I understand my privilege. I don’t begrudge anyone working there because they have to. In the tech (read:coding) industry, where there are more options (though fewer these days), I don’t understand putting themselves into the meat grinder if they don’t have to.
Because they pay well and most of the corporate side has good benefits and perks.
good benefits and perks.
Didn’t they literally just introduce free coffee at the office post-pandemic?
Devaluing labor. Amazon. new logo do you Think Jeff would approve this?
do you Think Jeff would approve this?
Come on, you know Jeff laughs on his way to the bank with that shit-eating grin.
Would it even matter anymore? It could be “we hate you, piss off! Amazon” and everyone would still shop there.
Recession.
I’m happy I don’t work there anymore. I joined right before the layoff craze and between the horrible oncall nights and layoffs that was one of the more stressful experiences of my life.
Yeah duh, it’s Amazon. You’re a
wage slaveneedy flesh robot or a executive that want’s you away.
