Topics regarding layoffs at Amazon.com

Topics regarding layoffs at Amazon.com

Tips intended for drivers

Driver here. What Amazon did between 2016 and 2019 was a really shady practice. The news now appearing in the media that the company took away 62 million dollars in tips from us is nothing new, but it still piss me off. Excerpt from the article -... — read more 

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| 1120 views | | 1 reply (February 19, 2021)
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Organizing in Alabama?

Amazon is organizing in Alabama. So what will Amazon do to stop workers from having a voice, getting fair wages and safe working conditions?... — read more 

The worst place to work

The very worst place to work; under backstabbing, narcissistic, despotic managers who are supported wholeheartedly by craven HR Business Partners. I would not recommend this place to any but the most supplicant masochists who return home at night... — read more 

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| 2180 views | | 1 reply (February 7, 2021)
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Feeling miserable

Sorting again, endlessly stacking packages on palettes... another day older, with an even more painful spine... feeling stress but I try not to get noticed because they would replace me immediately... worried about how to pay the bills, more indebted... — read more 

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Why Amazon doesn't do layoffs often

Amazon has created this image of a company that rarely lays off people but the reason why that's true is that it's using and abusing its employees to the point where the only thing they can do is quit! Of course they don't do layoffs when everybody... — read more 

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| 2730 views | | 3 replies (last February 7, 2021)
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Corporate culture

Interviewing for a corporate role but trying to get a handle on the culture. Would love to be in an upbeat growth company. Is that Amazon? My recent Tech experience is daily knife fights among team members when the company was making billions anyway... — read more 

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| 2230 views | | 2 replies (last February 7, 2021)
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Colleges Tapping Amazon? Or Amazon Tapping Colleges?

https://www.educationdive.com/news/why-4-year-colleges-are-tapping-amazon-to-help-deliver-cloud-computing-degr/589750/ Looks like at least one of these schools, Purdue University Global (formerly Kaplan University) is subprime.

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Don't make me laugh

Workers at Walmart, Amazon, Kroger and other major retailers are calling on their employers to reinstate hazard pay and strengthen safety protocols ahead of the busy holiday shopping season as coronavirus infection rates... — read more 

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| 1030 views | | 1 reply (December 15, 2020)
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Amazon.com Layoffs 2021

What's your prediction as it relates to the possiblity of Amazon.com Layoffs 2021? Any news or rumors?

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| 2160 views | | 5 replies (last February 16, 2021)
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Just in - Amazone Drone Team Cuts

Amazon’s drone delivery team hit with layoffs amid reorganization The company adds, however, that it is committed to the Prime Air project. The initial report points to dozens of layoffs, though Amazon, unsurprisingly, is loath... — read more 

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Option to work from home

Unfortunately, I had to leave the company due to illness and now I saw the news that Amazon will allow some employees to work from home until mid-2021. Can someone give me more detailed information, which workers will be covered and will those who... — read more 

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How is this possible?

Amazon is the second best employer in the world according to Forbes. Now, I understand that there are privileged employees at HQ who might call this a good place to work, but they are a minority! How can they call Amazon even a good employer, not to... — read more 

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| 2140 views | | 2 replies (last October 30, 2020)
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Has anybody come out of their PIP "alive?"

I was put on a PIP (their reasoning for it is mind boggling but I guess that's beside the point right now) and I've been told by several people already that I'm as good as gone. Considering the state of the economy right now, I'd really like to... — read more 

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| 2730 views | | 4 replies (last January 5, 2021)
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Snowflake as competitor?

I think Snowflake filing for IPO could be one of the 2020 best headlines but this headline is a bit exaggerated. We can only wonder what 2021 will bring to us but neither Snowflake nor Amazon controls the market, so competition between different... — read more 

Program Manager - Terminations

https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=28a4d6ec57b456ab&tk=1e4rm6lj1f90r801&from=serp&vjs=3 If AMZN is not planning massive layoffs soon, then why are they hiring someone whose job focus is making it easier to do massive layoffs? Sorry, I meant... — read more 

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| 2940 views | | 1 reply (August 22, 2020)
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UNIONIZE AGAINST CORPORATE GREED

THOSE RISKING YOUR LIVES WHILE FIGHTING FOR FAIR WORKING CONDITIONS, THE TIME TO COME TOGETHER IS NOW. THEY DON’T HAVE A CHOICE, YOU HAVE THE CARES ACT.

JB will make billions from Covid19

Let's all pretend we didn't see it coming. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lets-all-pretend-we-couldnt-see-coming-dahn-shaulis/

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| 1005 views | | 1 reply (March 23, 2020)
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Center for Investigative Reporting

Worth listening to. https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/amazon-behind-the-smiles/

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Amazon.com Layoffs 2020

What are your thoughts about potential Amazon.com Layoffs 2020? Any news or rumors?

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| 1793 views | | 1 reply (December 5, 2020)
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Massive layoff at TPA1 (Ruskin, FL)

Insiders report that there was a massive layoff of floor warehouse workers yesterday. Reason given was that there excess employees for the amount of work and they were layoffing people instead of cutting hours. Any confirmations

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Updates on Amazon NC Driver / Manager Layoffs

Nearly 200 workers at three Amazon facilities in North Carolina will lose jobs. Inpax Final Mile Delivery, a delivery company running a contract with Amazon until recently announced the 200 layoffs. Amazon had ended its relationship with the... — read more 

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NDAs

Something many sources within tech companies aren't aware of is that they have a legal right (under the National Labor Relations Act) to talk to journalists about their working conditions. That right isn't removed by an NDA.

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| 920 views | | 1 reply (October 14, 2019)
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Do Amazon Warehouses Lay Off Workers?

Check this out and judge for yourself: https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/25/18516004/amazon-warehouse-fulfillment-centers-productivity-firing-terminations Amazon’s fulfillment centers are the engine of the company — massive warehouses where... — read more 

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| 3180 views | | 2 replies (last September 24, 2019)
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