These aren't "job losses", these are "firings". They aren't unfortunate accidents of external origin that happened to them, they are conscious internal decisions to let people go.
Is there a difference?
Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division
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#22These aren't "job losses", these are "firings". They aren't unfortunate accidents of external origin that happened to them, they are conscious internal decisions to let people go.
From the CNN report [1]: --- Al won’t just effect change at Amazon, Jassy said. AI "will change how we all work and live," including "billions" of AI agents “across every company and in every imaginable field." However, much of this remains speculative. "Many of these agents have yet to be built, but make no mistake, they’re coming, and coming fast," Jassy said. --- [1] _ https://lite.cnn.com/2025/10/28/business/amaz…
Prepare for the bogeyman.
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#23> This includes around 350,000 corporate workers, which include those in executive, managerial and sales roles, according to figures, external that Amazon submitted to the US government last year.
I’m fairly ignorant to these things, but why does Amazon need 350k corporate employees?
People losing jobs always sucks, but I can’t help but think that a company of this size inevitably has bloat that they do not need.
At this point it really does feel like a corporate welfare program.
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#24These aren't "job losses", these are "firings". They aren't unfortunate accidents of external origin that happened to them, they are conscious internal decisions to let people go.
I was just thinking the same, this is quite the weasel wording. Not only the “losses” but the passive voice. As if Amazon is a person who walked to work one day and realise it has a hole in its pocket from which thousands of jobs fell off. “Oh well, these things happen, not my fault and nothing I can do about it”, Amazon says as it shrugs its shoulders and whistles down the factory floor with a skip in its step.
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#25This is a reflection of 1) compensation has come down since the ZIRP era at least in some roles and 2) it's a hirer's market.
This means companies see an opportunity to bring compensation down.
I wish employees would instead have an opportunity to sign up for lower salary. For whatever reason you just don't see that happening anywhere
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#27It really feels like we are in the middle of a recession.
Worse, we’ve been in one but have been pretending we aren’t. Stock goes up.
The biggest "pretend" is where spokesmen, spin doctors, and sycophants for the plutocrat class have somehow convinced the 99% that stocks going up makes more jobs for the little people.
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#28It really feels like we are in the middle of a recession.
"At the end of July, Amazon reported second quarter results which beat Wall Street expectations on several counts, including a 13% year over year increase in sales to $167.7bn (£125bn)." The stock-owning class is in a boom. The working class is in a recession. (People who have stock-market investments and need to work for a living are somewhere in between.) The average of one billionaire gaining £10M and a hundred mi…
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#29It really feels like we are in the middle of a recession.
Well, it may be - hidden, at least in the US, by the "AI"-Bubble. But also an interesting point is that these layoffs do not happen in struggling companies -they all have increasing profits.
It is most likely a way to squeeze out some easy penny and pump up share prices - remember the "shareholder value". Shareholders today are all looking for pump & dump schemes.
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#30These aren't "job losses", these are "firings". They aren't unfortunate accidents of external origin that happened to them, they are conscious internal decisions to let people go.
Is there a difference?
Passive vs. active voice. "Job losses" is chickenshit language.
If you're going to fire people, at least have the integrity to own your actions, instead of trying to make it sound like something that "just happened".