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> Honest question, if you were running Amazon, how do you protect against bad actors or poor performers? define poor performers. I've work for abusive corpora
by throw_m239339 5y ago
> Honest question, if you were running Amazon, how do you protect against bad actors or poor performers?
define poor performers.
I've work for abusive corporations that were setting impossible goals and called employees "poor performers" and fired them when these impossible goals were not met.
- bluedino 5y agoEmployees who produce less than others. Say John packs 50% as many orders as Jim. Should he be fired?
- yifanl 5y agoDepends on what that means in absolute terms, how many Jims can you expect to hire?
- bell-cot 5y agoAnd we know that John is not getting handed the bigger / tougher orders to pack while Jim is cherry-picking the easy ones, and ... ?
- judge2020 5y agoAnd so defining the level of work required in law is usually not going to help anyone. This is why unions exist - so the people that know the workplace and subject matter best can negotiate to make the job fair.
- kelnos 5y ago... which is the ridiculous thing. As much as unions do have problems, I think a better fix to all of this would be a law that just said "all warehouse employees must be a member of an independent labor union". Amazon has fought tooth and nail to keep their warehouse workers out of unions. (I don't love this sort of law, but it'll probably give these workers a better outcome than they have now, and likely a better outcome than the law that we're talking about here.)
- rufus_foreman 5y agoIf the goals are impossible and they fire people who don't meet them, who does the work?
- pseudalopex 5y agoThey assign or enforce the impossible goals selectively.
- rufus_foreman 5y agoThat doesn't make sense. If it's impossible no one can do it.
- nomel 5y agoI believe that's where the selection comes in. You only select those you want to doom to failure/remove.
- lardo 5y agoWhoever has the worst alternative.