What's happening in the rest of 2025? How about Q4? Any cuts planned?
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“Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt is paid. Where I once would fear the cost of truth, now I only ask: what is the cost of lies?”
@byw shared services in ops had a few in December.
Well, it doesn’t appear there were any layoffs at the very of 2025, that I know of and so far nothing in 2026.
@24d Meanwhile .....
OpenAI agreed to buy $38 billion worth of capacity from Amazon Web Services.
Laying off all these people while making billions of dollars.
@253 product technology, new business and underwriting, data engineering and analytics, operations technology, admin platforms, sanderling, document management, post-issue servicing
@24h
"These people are basically emotional money launderers—running human suffering through PowerPoint until it comes out sounding like leadership." -- Took me plain out
@24p I didn't see any notice of that, what teams are affected?
@24h There was a reorg in ETX today and messaging was around transformation and efficiency. Not sure if there were any layoffs but if not those will probably come in January
@24d
I read this post on linkedin regarding the 14,000 - 30,000 people amazon laid off and it speaks to the thinking mm has been on:
Meanwhile… today in an internal Amazon firing email-
“Some may ask why we’re reducing roles when the company is performing well,” Beth Galetti wrote. “This generation of AI is the most transformative technology we’ve seen since the Internet, and it’s enabling companies to innovate much faster than ever before (in existing market segments and altogether new ones). We’re convicted that we need to be organized more leanly.”
Yeah, see—this is the part that gets me. It’s not just one clueless Amazon exec mangling the language like it’s a packet of instant soup. It’s the whole machine behind her. This is what corporate “leadership” has turned into: a TED Talk with severance packages.
Every time one of these emails drops, the same theater plays out. They talk about “efficiency” and “transformation” and “AI,” and everyone’s supposed to nod like it’s progress. But what it really is—what it always is—is the same old story: a bunch of people at the top who’ve finally found a new religion to justify being a$$holes.
AI is just the new God they pray to when they fire you. It’s their burning bush, their golden calf, their “we had no choice.” You get fired by a line of code now, and they act like it’s destiny. “We didn’t want to cut your job—it was the algorithm’s will.”
And the language … oh my God, the language. “We’re convicted that we need to be organized more leanly.” It’s a whole new dialect of Corporate Esperanto. It’s designed to make cruelty sound noble. These people are basically emotional money launderers—running human suffering through PowerPoint until it comes out sounding like leadership.
And they’re doing this while bragging about how “well” the company’s performing. They’re not cutting jobs because they have to. They’re doing it because it feels good. Because it makes the numbers go up for five minutes, and that’s the only pulse they check anymore.
So yeah, it’s funny. But it’s also kind of horrifying. Because when a company’s performing well and people still lose their jobs, it means the whole definition of “well” is sick. We’ve built an economy where success means less humanity, not more.
And maybe that’s the real transformation they’re talking about: the one AI didn’t invent, but just made easier. The transformation of people into “resources.” The transformation of guilt into strategy. The transformation of language into camouflage.
So yeah, laugh at the “convicted” thing. It’s hilarious. But it’s also perfect, because deep down, that’s exactly what they are. Convicted.
Amazon laid off 14,000 people today.
To whomever mentioned early Nov was a potential target date; spot on.
Be prepared. Don't make any large purchases.
@15x I'm so miserable having been laid off because mm leaders only cre to grease their pocket and not do their jobs and haven't found work yet.
I’m so miserable here that I’d volunteer for the severance
@hy this would make it layoff #4. In one year. Does mm make any money?
@hw For those who were laid off a few months after being hired, no.
If you have been there 10+ years, probably yes. Maybe a years worth in salary. Which they deserve for their loyalty.
No info here but I do know November is notorious for layoffs. I wouldn’t be surprised if we see any mid November.
Well I for one would like to be the recipient of a generous severance package, do they still offer decent severance?
No layoffs from mid-November to mid-January. Expect a good sized one in Q1 though.
@f7 in what area?
I heard layoffs 2 weeks before Christmas in a grinch style attack
That would be awful and fully reprehensible. Layoffs before the holidays is cruel and would need the board to step in and make changes in how mm is ran.