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re: Amazon cutting up to 30,000 corporate job. Yes 30K
Posted on 10/27/25 at 3:28 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
Posted on 10/27/25 at 3:28 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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Because you get part of your pay in options that seemingly double in price about every other year
You didn't earn that downvote. This is completely true.
People take the soulless, grueling Amazon job for shitloads of money. It's not complicated.
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Posted on 10/27/25 at 4:03 pm to Powerman
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believe some tech bros have been trying to acquire land in CA to do that but have been getting a lot of pushback from the locals
It’s not a couple tech bros.
Look at how many mayors of major US cities signed up for Agenda 2030 / 15 minute cities.
I’m talking about places like Miami, not just Portland or whatever.
Posted on 10/27/25 at 4:14 pm to sidewalkside
Learn to . . . uh . . . hmm.
Yea they might just be boned for life.
Yea they might just be boned for life.
Posted on 10/27/25 at 4:31 pm to kengel2
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Get your nose out of the air, you corporate people are no more valuable than warehouse workers or anyone else....
I think the point is that Amazon Warehouse jobs have a high churn rate. Corporate jobs typically don’t.
Posted on 10/27/25 at 4:32 pm to Cosmo
There worldwide workforce is 3. 5 mil. Maybe that answers your question.
Posted on 10/27/25 at 4:33 pm to Cosmo
Sorry, meant to say 1.5 mil, not 3.5 mil.
Posted on 10/27/25 at 4:35 pm to sidewalkside
30k or the Google searched 350k jobs. A 10% cut is significant, but if a billion dollar company is cutting 30k jobs, either you were not very good, or you weren't really needed and a computer can do your job by itself.
Posted on 10/27/25 at 4:56 pm to Cosmo
Span of control. In corporate to get promoted you need to have a certain size team depending on your level and within that the higher level employees reporting to you (preferably a peer or two). So people across the company were incentivized to hire people they probably didnt need so they could put that into their promo doc. Then once they rotate to the next role theres a half dozen dudes that dont really need to be there.
Jassy called out a few years ago that teams had gone rogue and hired way over their headcount plans. That would be why.
Jassy called out a few years ago that teams had gone rogue and hired way over their headcount plans. That would be why.
Posted on 10/27/25 at 5:18 pm to Dadren
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I think the point is that Amazon Warehouse jobs have a high churn rate. Corporate jobs typically don’t.
They do, just not as much. Amazon is known for being a corporate sweatshop as well.
Posted on 10/27/25 at 5:26 pm to sidewalkside
Recession here we come
Posted on 10/27/25 at 7:09 pm to sidewalkside
Wait a minute, they hired an extra 30,000 people for office jobs?
To do what exactly?
For frick sakes, how many people were doing the same job?
To do what exactly?
For frick sakes, how many people were doing the same job?
Posted on 10/27/25 at 7:17 pm to sidewalkside
That's a lot of corporate jobs. In general. Yes its a lot of jobs to cut, but 30k corporate jobs? How many will not be getting cut?
Posted on 10/27/25 at 7:20 pm to OweO
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How many will not be getting cut?
320,000 "useful" souls spared for now.
Posted on 10/27/25 at 9:07 pm to Earnest_P
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Crazy to me that society isn’t planning in any visible way for a time when employees just aren’t needed.
Well society isn’t, but their are definitely players in the world that are planning it.
Covid was a test run of it.
There is a reason billionaires are building bunkers globally.
Posted on 10/27/25 at 9:25 pm to dnm3305
Once they have the numbers for robotics and automation to replace enough of the workers it’s a wrap for the human race as we know it.
Posted on 10/27/25 at 9:41 pm to ned nederlander
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Learn to . . . uh . . . hmm.
Yea they might just be boned for life.
Learn to bone.
Oldest profession in history.
Full belly of food and jerk sauce.
If you need advice on how to get started ... ask SFP, HHTM or PowerBottom
This post was edited on 10/27/25 at 9:43 pm
Posted on 10/27/25 at 11:18 pm to Oilfieldbiology
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How do you over hire by 30k jobs?
Tell me you’ve never worked in a place with mandated DEI and a woman led HR without telling me.
Posted on 10/28/25 at 5:38 am to bostitch
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Span of control. In corporate to get promoted you need to have a certain size team depending on your level and within that the higher level employees reporting to you (preferably a peer or two). So people across the company were incentivized to hire people they probably didnt need so they could put that into their promo doc. Then once they rotate to the next role theres a half dozen dudes that dont really need to be there.
Jassy called out a few years ago that teams had gone rogue and hired way over their headcount plans. That would be why.
Posted on 10/28/25 at 7:20 am to sidewalkside
The vast majority of big publicly traded corporations are extremely overstaffed in the management and white collar type positions.
Musk cut 90% of Twitter and there was no visible difference.
Just think about your job if it's an office job. Every job I've ever had at least half the company is basically worthless. There are people who make power point presentations all day. Does the company actually need those to exist? The number of people who contribute nothing of value is way higher than you'd expect.
Musk cut 90% of Twitter and there was no visible difference.
Just think about your job if it's an office job. Every job I've ever had at least half the company is basically worthless. There are people who make power point presentations all day. Does the company actually need those to exist? The number of people who contribute nothing of value is way higher than you'd expect.
Posted on 10/28/25 at 7:50 am to FieldEngineer
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They do, just not as much. Amazon is known for being a corporate sweatshop as well.
Huh, didn’t know that. I have two former coworkers who (as far as I know) were at Amazon for a while so I never would have guessed they chew through their staff that fast.
In any event, I don’t think that guy’s point was a “white collar is better than blue collar” point. Hell at this rate of AI advancement, we might all end up as blue collar workers at some point.
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