Thank you for your loyal service to the company.
Now....GET OUT.
Oh, and we love you.
AI is gonna lay waste to the tech industry.
‘ve been an AMZ customer since Bezos sold books out of his garage. Save a ton of money there plus have free PRIME. My son worked there years ago as a programmer and they fired him too. My dermatologist nephew was hired as advertising manager the minute he graduated for $1 million/year.
Every large company does crappy things and wonderful things too. So do I, come to think of it.
Amazon has no fiscal or moral responsibility to retain employees they don't need.
Uncle Sam is the Sugar Daddy in America. Not Uncle Jeff.
>> The company’s ruthless pursuit of profit comes at the expense of its employees
So at what profit or loss is the company not ruthlessly laying off employees it can do without?
It’s just more money for the Bezos bank accounts
“...conveniently ignoring the human cost of their actions...livelihoods are sacrificed on the altar of corporate greed.”
Oh, please. If you kept everybody on forever, you’d never be able to shut down and shrink unprofitable businesses and redirect toward more promising, high growth areas.
Business is a dynamic enterprise. You are not promised a life-long sinecure.
I was laid off four times from small companies going through growing pains. I don’t begrudge any of the companies for their decisions. You pick yourself up and move on plus use what you learned to make yourself more valuable.
Spoken like a true communist.
Companies aren't meant to be run like families or charities. When a piece of machinery isn't needed anymore, it's sold or replaced.
If one company keeps unneeded employees, another company will outperform it and start taking away its market share. That's merely survival of the fittest, corporate-style.
It's that struggle to be the best that makes America strong. If one's job is eliminated, it's time to look for another one.
That said, companies can make the transition easier for employees with separation bonuses and assistance in finding new positions.
If you are self-employed and a market you are serving disappears or is taken away by a competitor, you have to change or your business will die. If you are a lawyer or accountant and your area of specialty is eliminated, you change or die.
If you are a potato farmer and no one is eating potatoes, you change or die.
Life is tough and corporations aren't supposed to be guarantors of life employment.
In most states, a company can dismiss an employee for any reason and an employee can leave for any reason.
I set my own path forward with direction from God - I don't rely on a corporation to do it for me.
Companies are in business to make a lot of profit, if possible. There's nothing unethical about what AWS did.
Bezos needs Diesel for his $500 Million Dollar Boat he owns.
Never mind the human cost - if their cloud services become unreliable, then their corporate customers will move their accounts to a competitor.
There have already been several major screw-ups, this can’t help.
The justification of streamlining operations to focus on “key strategic areas.
Tax brake for giving what ever the illegals needs for the next few years?.
Joey not answering the phone.
Anybody expecting a lifetime career at one needs their heads examined.
Sounds like someone’s confident in AI being able to do those jobs.
Why is the writer of this article taking time off from her busy schedule of protesting and social justice tirades to advise one of the most successful enterprises in history in how they should be running their business?
The reason there are so many starving writers and artists is because they are doing what doesn’t need to be done — and not that they should be guaranteed lifetime sinecures for doing it — to ensure Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
Those people need to apply to Harvard and become president.
Sooooooo....learn to code wasn’t such great career advice?