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Amazon Layoffs: Tech Firm to Cut 14,000 Manager Positions by 2025, Says Report

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Re: Amazon Layoffs: Tech Firm to Cut 14,000 Manager Positions by 2025, Says Report

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Imagine the bottom 14000 managers from Amazon on the loose getting jobs elsewhere and spreading the worst parts of its culture around in other companies. Effectively unleashes a biological virus at other FAANGs and smaller companies. Good job Amazon.

What makes you think they're really the bottom?

What makes you think otherwise, statistically?

Re: Amazon Layoffs: Tech Firm to Cut 14,000 Manager Positions by 2025, Says Report

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What makes you think they're really the bottom?

What makes you think otherwise, statistically?

There isn't any reason to believe that companies can or even want to identify the lowest performers, especially when doing mass headcount reduction.

Re: Amazon Layoffs: Tech Firm to Cut 14,000 Manager Positions by 2025, Says Report

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What makes you think otherwise, statistically?

There isn't any reason to believe that companies can or even want to identify the lowest performers, especially when doing mass headcount reduction.

There isn't any reason to believe...

There's no reason to believe the sky is blue.

...even want to identify...

Short of cuts of an entire division, sounds like fairy tales. Now, they might want to claim they have or have not done so; that's a different issue.

Re: Amazon Layoffs: Tech Firm to Cut 14,000 Manager Positions by 2025, Says Report

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post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There isn't any reason to believe that companies can or even want to identify the lowest performers, especially when doing mass headcount reduction.

There isn't any reason to believe... There's no reason to believe the sky is blue. ...even want to identify... Short of cuts of an entire division, sounds like fairy tales. Now, they might want to claim they have or have not done so; that's a different issue.

What are you even talking about?

Re: Amazon Layoffs: Tech Firm to Cut 14,000 Manager Positions by 2025, Says Report

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post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There isn't any reason to believe... There's no reason to believe the sky is blue. ...even want to identify... Short of cuts of an entire division, sounds like fairy tales. Now, they might want to claim they have or have not done so; that's a different issue.

What are you even talking about?

I am simply suggesting your assertion is self-evidently false.

Re: Amazon Layoffs: Tech Firm to Cut 14,000 Manager Positions by 2025, Says Report

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Imagine the bottom 14000 managers from Amazon on the loose getting jobs elsewhere and spreading the worst parts of its culture around in other companies. Effectively unleashes a biological virus at other FAANGs and smaller companies. Good job Amazon.

Is it any worst than the ex Facebook and Google employees?

"Meta to Lay Off Another 10,000 Workers" - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/technology/meta-facebook-...

"Google lays off hundreds of ‘Core’ employees" - https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/01/google-cuts-hundreds-of-core...

Re: Amazon Layoffs: Tech Firm to Cut 14,000 Manager Positions by 2025, Says Report

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post #17
post #2

Imagine the bottom 14000 managers from Amazon on the loose getting jobs elsewhere and spreading the worst parts of its culture around in other companies. Effectively unleashes a biological virus at other FAANGs and smaller companies. Good job Amazon.

Is it any worst than the ex Facebook and Google employees? "Meta to Lay Off Another 10,000 Workers" - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/technology/meta-facebook-... "Google lays off hundreds of ‘Core’ employees" - https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/01/google-cuts-hundreds-of-core...

Google and Facebook do not indoctrinate their managers with Amazon management policies.

Re: Amazon Layoffs: Tech Firm to Cut 14,000 Manager Positions by 2025, Says Report

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are you even talking about?

I am simply suggesting your assertion is self-evidently false.

By that logic, so is yours. We should talk to the World's Records people to see if we set a record for biggest waste of time.

Re: Amazon Layoffs: Tech Firm to Cut 14,000 Manager Positions by 2025, Says Report

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am simply suggesting your assertion is self-evidently false.

By that logic, so is yours. We should talk to the World's Records people to see if we set a record for biggest waste of time.

Perhaps you should. It's obvious that all companies at very least desire to know who is the high performer and who is not. To deny that for a trillion dollar successful company is just ridiculous.
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