Thread regarding Amazon.com layoffs

LPs are a lie

The way this whole thing has been handled has been atrocious. I worked in a different industry for 15 years prior to working here and we never handled downsizing in such a poor manner. How do you tell your workforce that you are laying them off via The New York Times? How do you as a leader not say anything else about it until days later (Jassy)? You tell us to add FAQs in all of these ridiculous papers yet you give us no answers until DAYS after we find out there's a layoff?? Is that Earn Trust, Andy???

I knew this place was ridiculous when I saw the amount of wasted efforts in writing these cr-p papers with tons of iterations being passed around instead of actually strategizing and using your words in meetings. The Customer Obsession only applies to people spending money with this place - it has nothing to do with how they treat internally.

This whole thing has made me see that Leaders her at Amazon are WRONG. A Lot.

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Jeff Bozos LP's:

Customer Obsession - layoff employees so that customers will have to hire expensive new employees to do Amazon's work
Ownership - overhire then layoff, then BLAME "macro economy"
Invent and Simplify - write BS narratives, simplify to 3-6 pages, pretend like you did something
Are Right, A Lot - yeah, I can see that! Use better grammar next time.
Learn and Be Curious - learn from Google, Netflix, Meta mistakes, repeat them
Hire and Develop the Best - yeah, I can see that! they're now leaving!!
Insist on the Highest Standards- yeah, I can see that! High salary if you can stay longer than 4 months.
Think Big - only 10000 layoffs? not 250000?
Bias for Action - yeah, I can see that!! Lots of action!!!
Frugality - overhire, overspend because you're so BIG and NOT economically insulated
Earn Trust - don't tell anyone about layoffs until days later
Dive Deep - look at all of the unprofitable orgs, figure out who to PIP/layoff/manage out
Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit - walk back on your over hiring strategy
Deliver Results - do those hiring freezes, and layoffs!! more through 2023!!
Strive to be Earth's Best Employer - yeah, I can see that! But you can't hire anyone anymore, can you?
Success and Scale Bring Broad Responsibility - yeah, cause now you're f*cked

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The LPs are different expressions on how to bootlick. They're almost like something you would see from a CCP manifesto.

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