Maybe this is a true story, but it doesn't make a lot of sense - Amazon is desperate for workers, that's the entire point of the bonus. Firing each worker you

Maybe this is a true story, but it doesn't make a lot of sense - Amazon is desperate for workers, that's the entire point of the bonus. Firing each worker you get after a few months to back out of the bonus seems very unlikely to me, they would run out of people to hire very quickly. And imagining some middle manager doing this (i.e. not official policy) also doesn't make sense - it's not like they personally pay the bonus, what's their motivation? It's more likely they gave the new hire the full length of time to prove themselves, and they decided they were inadequate for some reason that the story teller will of course never tell us.