Seems 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 ass

Seems 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.