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Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division

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Re: Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division

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Post by tirant »

playworker wrote: post #66
portaouflop wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s the same language used when taking about “car accidents” They aren’t accidents, it’s an inherent part of how we designed cars and roads and we decided as society that we are ok with thousands of people killed by cars.

killed by drivers , cars are inanimate objects

Killed semantics includes intentionality (and lack of), while dying by accident clearly removes any intentionality whatsoever.

So it's much more faithful to truth to talk about accidents than by killing, even if both terms are semantically correct.

Re: Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division

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Post by noir_lord »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #77
bell-cot wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

SP500 is flat this year when you account for loss of purchasing power of the US dollar: https://ycharts.com/indices/%5ESPXEUR

Factor out the AI companies doing circular dealing to juke their stock price and GDP growth was like 0.1% combine that with purchasing power loss and US economy is net negative.

It's pretty clear what happens next.

Over 42 million people are about to lose their SNAP payments in 4 days[1] and millions more medical care.

It's gonna get bad.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g7d9j7p5qo

Re: Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division

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Post by nxm »

nemomarx wrote: post #14
raziel2p wrote: post #10

> The company has more than 1.5 million employees across its warehouses and offices worldwide. > This includes around 350,000 corporate workers, which include those in executive, managerial and sales roles, according to figures that Amazon submitted to the US government last year. So roughly 4% of jobs in Amazon's corporate division disappeared. Not to downplay that the world/economy is in a bad state, but I don't th…

Not catastrophic, but probably a sign that jobs are shrinking instead of growing and so good market information if you were thinking about getting promoted or moving around?

Rather, a correction for over hiring during periods of low-interest rates and excessive money printed which promoted & rewarded hiring just to be compretitive

Re: Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division

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Post by softwaredoug »

actionfromafar wrote: post #48
softwaredoug wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If not for the top 10 of the S&P 500 - the companies that can get a meeting at the white house - we'd probably be in a recession and S&P would be down.

It's almost like a merger of Capital and State.

You might say its rather socialist...

Re: Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division

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Post by hansmayer »

martin-t wrote: post #44
phoe-krk wrote: post #4

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.

It's wild that you can legally work for a company, spend your limited life's time to build a part of it while not owning even a tiny bit of it (getting paid for unit of time - a finite resource) and then just get fired once you are not longer useful and that's the end of your income from the thing you built for you. All the while people who own it don't have to perform any kind of work and keep getting paid in perpet…

Well you do get that weird "ownership" concept, pushed on everyone by that bozo Bezos, where you are supposed to "act as owner" of the business, but get no benefits out of it, only the risks :)

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Post by dust-jacket »

seydor wrote: post #21
phoe-krk wrote: post #4

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?

in the uk job losses and firings are different things, with different meanings, so the criticism here is a bit off.

job loss / redundancy = there is no need for this role any more. your job is gone firing = you are not appropriate/fit/whatever for this role. your employment is gone. someone else can have your job

(the passive/active criticism is totally right though. this should read "Amazon CUTS / REMOVES 14,000 jobs")

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Post by wiseowise »

nothrowaways wrote: post #46
heresie-dabord wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Replace Jassy with AI

They will. But by the time it happens, Jassy already made millions in cash + much more in stocks and will retire comfortably while others will slave away for new AI overlords.

Re: Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division

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Post by dangus »

Q3 results [PDF]: https://s2.q4cdn.com/299287126/files/doc_financials/2025/q2/...

Numbers are all in the black and up year over year and compared to previous quarter.

Double digit revenue growth in both retail and AWS.

Often I wonder whether corporate leaders took any kind of logic class in college or if they just have a fetish for harming people for no reason. Either that or whatever business school they went to believes that poor customer service and bad products increase revenue.

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