Re:Laying myself off from Amazon
by twelve40 on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @05:55PM
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that can't be right (but i have no idea). In the new group, nobody has any desire to at least do a reference check with the previous group? That would be the first thing as a hiring manager i would try to check for, say "this person is a d-bag that the entire group hated, and we were about to pip him/her anyway"? That would be kind of an equivalent of an approval, even if there is no formal approval.
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Re:Laying myself off from Amazon
by bigfoot675 on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @10:21PM
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Yes they do this. I don't know if the other guy just hasn't seen it himself or what
Re:Laying myself off from Amazon
by therealcamino on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @10:27PM
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I mean, yes, having your manager say "I will destroy your career if you think about leaving" would be a kind of approval needed, but short of that level of viciousness it sounds like no?
Not familiar with Amazon culture so I don't know if that'd be considered acceptable behavior. I hope not!
have you considered that the manager may rightly have bad things to say? or that is just never warranted.
Re:Laying myself off from Amazon
by caskstrength on Thursday November 17, 2022 @08:13AM
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> have you considered that the manager may rightly have bad things to say? or that is just never warranted.
The manager should put those bad things _in writing_ during performance reviews instead of trying to prevent their employees from leaving by dunking on them after they are informed about the fact.