In Becoming a Technical Leader, Gerald Weinberg wrote about an IBM employee who was stuck in such a case and not performing in a training program. Once Weinberg

In Becoming a Technical Leader, Gerald Weinberg wrote about an IBM employee who was stuck in such a case and not performing in a training program. Once Weinberg found out what was going on, IBM immediately arranged for extended leave for the guy, and brought him back in later. Now, that was the IBM in its most profitable and secure days, and likely not something today's IBM would do. But is Amazon harder pinched than the IBM of 1965 or whenever that would have been?