Re:Amazon abruptly fires senior managers tied to unionized w...
by wardedVibe on Saturday May 07, 2022 @03:17PM
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Another benefit of firing workers early is it increases churn, which makes forming unions in the first place difficult, since it relies on trust between workers.
Re:Amazon abruptly fires senior managers tied to unionized w...
by oicU00 on Saturday May 07, 2022 @03:38PM
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Same idea seems work in public favor when firing politicians frequently: https://www.nber.org/papers/w29766
Re:Amazon abruptly fires senior managers tied to unionized w...
by Ekaros on Saturday May 07, 2022 @03:48PM
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Having watched the HVAC videos about restaurants and walking freezers with doors left open by new employees causing problems for hardware and their operation in general. Maybe that isn't best solution. Then again maybe returns on other side cover any such issues...
Which I rather doubt that you can train them in all things in that timeframe...
Re:Amazon abruptly fires senior managers tied to unionized w...
by coliveira on Saturday May 07, 2022 @03:16PM
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You're completely right. Amazon strategy is to maintain constant turnover, so that employees never feel they have stability and can't complain of anything.
Re:Amazon abruptly fires senior managers tied to unionized w...
by abvdj2 on Saturday May 07, 2022 @11:53PM
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There's an internal tool showing how many total employees (~1m at that time iirc) where hired after/before you for . After somewhere between 6months-12months I was somewhere in the middle, meaning about 500k employees must have left and new 500k joined.
Just to give an estimate. Covid might have contributed to that though, probaly more temp workers than usual.
I just assumed they were always hiring because of consistent growth.
According to the guy (forget his name. Wears a gold chain.) representing the union; Amazon fires a lot of employees. Many for no reason.
(I once read a restaurant success book. Everything he recommended made sence, except one, and it does make sence, but it's weaselly.
His recommendation to restaurants was to fire all employees every six months. Turn over the semi-skilled completely. His reasoning was a new employee didn't complain, didn't steal (this was before companies had cams everywhere, gps tracking, and wrist movment counters), and worked harder.)
I believe this is Amazon strategy.
It's usually a bit harder to fire union workers for no reason.
Fire them before they can see the inequities in the company.