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The difficulty with these stories second hand is that people often lie about why they have been fired, especially to family. I doubt anybody involved in the fir
by willcipriano 5y ago
The difficulty with these stories second hand is that people often lie about why they have been fired, especially to family. I doubt anybody involved in the firing had anything to gain here so I'd be interested in hearing their side of the story.
A few people I grew up with are frequently the "best workers in the company" and are similarly fired suddenly after a few months. If you haven't seen the pattern you can be forgiven when you believe them the first time.
- cmeacham98 5y agoSeems unlikely assuming the brother isn't lying about being promoted. To be honest, this just looks like a coincidence to me, Amazon is a large employer and assuming every warehouse worker gets this offer 1/365 firings of new employees will have this happen to them. That said, I'm surprised Amazon doesn't have a policy about avoiding firing around bonuses like this because it seems like such bad PR if a newspaper picks a story like this up and runs with it.
- armchairhacker 5y ago> I doubt anybody involved in the firing had anything to gain here so I'd be interested in hearing their side of the story. Not having to pay the $3000? If the unemployment makes up for it, maybe they're banking on him being dumb or intimidated, or maybe they're just dumb themselves.
- willcipriano 5y agoThey aren't paying the $3000, Amazon is. If that incentive isn't paid I doubt anyone involved here would receive it, even in part instead. If such an incentive did exist I suspect we will hear a great deal more of these stories and won't have to rely on a second hand account retold anonymously.
- passwordreset 5y agoNever underestimate the incentive of sucking up to management.
- willcipriano 5y agoBy firing a highly productive worker that they designed incentive programs around hiring and retaining?
- aaomidi 5y agoUnless they have an incentive to "save the company money". I feel like these comments are really giving a lot more benefit of doubt than Amazon deserves based on their previous actions.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 5y agoI don't work for Amazon, but as an employee of another large conglomerate, it's really no skin off my back if they pay one of my colleagues $3,000 more. I make no more or less money as a result.
- refurb 5y agoI always have the same impression. Don’t get me wrong, Amazon or the manager might in the wrong here. But when you only hear from one side, it reminds me of my coworker who complained of how poorly she was treated when she barely did any work and was eventually fired after a year.
- joeframbach 5y agoJust like every other post in r/maliciouscompliance is from the person at the bottom of the totem pole who is somehow the only person in the company who knows how to do the thing keeping the company afloat. One, the company will be fine without you, and Two, assuredly part of your job was communicating what you're doing so no you are not the best worker in the company. Sheesh.
- ipaddr 5y agoYou would be surprised how many companies fall apart after losing key employees.
- bentlegen 5y agoCould you name some? I’m genuinely curious.
- dekobon 5y agoProsper comes to mind: https://www.mayerbrown.com/en/perspectives-events/publications/2019/04/model-risk-strikes-again-sec-imposes-3-million-fine-due-to-error-in-computer-model https://www.mayerbrown.com/en/perspectives-events/publicatio... They didn't fall apart but got fined.
- bradknowles 5y agoAt one former employer, I literally was the best worker in the group -- I got the highest ratings possible from the interim manager who had been working there for years, and the highest ratings from our division chief above him. Then we hired a new manager, and I quickly got the lowest ratings. And lots of other top people in the group suddenly left around that time, too. So, this kind of shit really does happen, at least to some of us. Some are smart enough to leave the sinking ship before it tanks their career.