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So stepping back from the unreliable narrator of a person living through this with ptsd: -person is suffering mental health issues due to strain of job. -pers

So stepping back from the unreliable narrator of a person living through this with ptsd: -person is suffering mental health issues due to strain of job. -persons performance drops rapidly without warning as a result. -boss takes workload off them without putting them on a pip process, to give them time to work through their issues. -person quits right after stocks vest which upsets boss who put extra effort into helping them -person gives interview to justify their behaviour

curiousgal 3y ago
This! People often forget that corporations are just a group of individuals at their core. If every one is as shitty as a human being as the person giving the interview, no wonder Amazon is so horrible.
civilized 3y ago
It's a bit peculiar to cite PTSD to discredit everything a person says except the things that reflect poorly on themselves. I'm not sure there's any mental disorder that causes that pattern of misstatements?
- curiousgal 3y ago
  Narcissism.
aylmao 3y ago
Even from this perspective I don't think the employee is in the wrong. If a job gives you mental strain, especially if it is affecting your performance, IMO the right thing to do is to quit. I'm not surprised the boss was disappointed, but I do think they should've seen it coming. I've been in situations where a job evidently isn't for me anymore, albeit in a seemingly healthier environment— my boss and I talked openly about the team no longer being a fit for me for weeks if not months prior. I was evidently not working at my full potential too, and when I told my boss I was quitting, they told me what date I should officially submit my resignation so that I'd still get my latest bonus. It was all very amicable and objective.
wavemode 3y ago
If it were some random company, I'd say your scenario is plausible. But with Amazon, I happen to know that everything written in this article is 100% accurate to their real PIP process.
pavel_lishin 3y ago
> -person quits right after stocks vest which upsets boss who put extra effort into helping them That's one reading, but unless we assume that OP is straight up lying in their description of events, the boss was lying to them about whether they were on a PIP or not, and had given them no indication that their performance was flagging until suddenly doing this to them. It doesn't sound to me like the boss put in extra effort.

curiousgal 3y ago

This! People often forget that corporations are just a group of individuals at their core. If every one is as shitty as a human being as the person giving the interview, no wonder Amazon is so horrible.

civilized 3y ago

It's a bit peculiar to cite PTSD to discredit everything a person says except the things that reflect poorly on themselves. I'm not sure there's any mental disorder that causes that pattern of misstatements?

curiousgal 3y ago
Narcissism.

aylmao 3y ago

Even from this perspective I don't think the employee is in the wrong. If a job gives you mental strain, especially if it is affecting your performance, IMO the right thing to do is to quit. I'm not surprised the boss was disappointed, but I do think they should've seen it coming. I've been in situations where a job evidently isn't for me anymore, albeit in a seemingly healthier environment— my boss and I talked openly about the team no longer being a fit for me for weeks if not months prior. I was evidently not working at my full potential too, and when I told my boss I was quitting, they told me what date I should officially submit my resignation so that I'd still get my latest bonus. It was all very amicable and objective.

wavemode 3y ago

If it were some random company, I'd say your scenario is plausible. But with Amazon, I happen to know that everything written in this article is 100% accurate to their real PIP process.

pavel_lishin 3y ago

> -person quits right after stocks vest which upsets boss who put extra effort into helping them That's one reading, but unless we assume that OP is straight up lying in their description of events, the boss was lying to them about whether they were on a PIP or not, and had given them no indication that their performance was flagging until suddenly doing this to them. It doesn't sound to me like the boss put in extra effort.