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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I agree. I'm in pre-sales working at an AWS partner and honestly our whole team is treated as dispensable.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

At Amazon literally every employee is dispensable. They have a firing quota.

Edit: to be clear I'm talking about the Amazon divisions outside the warehouse. They make managers fire a certain percentage of people on a regular basis.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I have been laid off from every job (5 in total) since the pandemic. We are a subhuman commodity. Companies that are hiring now are exploiting the market by offering lower salaries.

Meta and Amazon are in their hiring season and they'll start their layoffs again next spring or summer. And somehow, everyone forgets this fucked up cycle keeps happening in perpetuum.

We need to stop being afraid of mentioning the U word. We need better protection and rights as employees.