"Why trouble yourself and shit in the toilet when you can shit on the floor?"
Words to live by :fidel-salute:
Amazon HR are some of the most useless motherfuckers I've ever met in my life, I'm convinced they're only ever trained in how to fire people.
I've heard this is unironically something they ask HR candidates in interviews. How comfortable they are with telling people that they got fired and then handling their offboarding
Like just in general, not just Amazon
A friend of mine does interviews for medical doctor candidates and one of the questions they always ask is "how would you tell a deceased patient's family members that their loved one is dead?"
You would think that it's a pretty hard question to fuck up, but according to my friend, there's been more than one candidate who answered with some sort of meme and immediately got drummed out of the system.
there’s been more than one candidate who answered with some sort of meme and immediately got drummed out of the system.
Some good news for a change. :bloomer:
"there’s been more than one candidate who answered with some sort of meme"
.> be me
.> patient is dead
.> ohshit.jpg
.> family is in waiting room
.> walk over (like a boss)
. > ur fam ded kek
. >(insert pepe/wojak)
We really need an emoji of Dale Gribble from that episode of KotH where he gets an office job and all he's good at is firing people
Oh god they truly are incompetent. All they know how to do is direct you to their live HR chat on the app because they never know the answer to anything. They barely even know their own policies.
I remember the system eating several hours of PTO and telling them to fix it 3 times before asking if I needed to get a manager involved.
They're the enforcers of an incredibly formulaic system that constantly whittles away at good teams be removing the "bottom x%" at each review period.
These "company culture" things are both insidious (pay people less because you're always hiring new grads for those positions) and stupid (making your company less productive for the feeling that you're "managing" them).
:sabo:
Be cooler if you wrote the bugs in too though.
Also, this is why tech companies usually do gardening-leave.
So does that include like every job from the “tax break” office Bezos was hunting for in AOCs district in 2018ish?
Pro business NYers we’re acting like she single handily destroyed NYC with that move. Those jobs wouldn’t of last 5 years?
That was the contemporary equivalent of when Rockefeller used to throw shiny dimes into the street because he found it amusing watching the poors scamper and struggle to get each one.
:lord-bezos-amused: :capitalist-laugh:
Maybe if they had provided the tax break, Amazon could afford to keep those good jobs in the city! Ever think of that, tankie!?
The article cites slow online sales as part of why they’re laying people off. Aren’t the mass layoffs a possible explanation as to the slower online sales? Isn’t this fueling the problem?
Aren’t the mass layoffs a possible explanation as to the slower online sales? Isn’t this fueling the problem?
Capitalism demands optimization in ways that actually inhibit further optimization.
Look at the notorious SEO tactic and how it makes search engines worse over time and makes SEO tactics less effective.
Real cost of living has gone up enormously over the last few years and we've been in a de facto recession since 2007. People probably just can't afford to buy stuff anymore.
Also these white collar, tech job layoffs are happening right after quantitative easing ended and the fed started jacking interest rates. When liquidity dries up and debts become a larger obligation I feel like a lot of these email jobs are about to be liquidated
Their stock price fell $20 a share in the last quarter, so they gotta do something to appease the investors
