Amazon to Lay Off over 17,000 Workers, More Than First Planned

Re:Amazon to Lay Off over 17,000 Workers, More Than First Pl... by anonreeeeplor on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @08:47PM (#34254826)

I believe that there is a power swing about to happen where talented individuals may get a lot more powerful and influential in relation to institutions and corporations.

I liken it to how MANPADS allow individual soldiers to overpower tanks for far cheaper, flipping the script on 100 years of war.

It hasn’t fully come to pass yet but corporations hire way too many “credential dead weight.”

In my career I have often been completely outraged at how bad credentialed people are in the pure talent department. Some of the most credentialed people who automatically get top roles really are not that smart versus some of the other people I know.

Corporations and institutions favor credentials. Individuals who have talent are very different and hopefully will go much further in current market.

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Re:Amazon to Lay Off over 17,000 Workers, More Than First Pl... by midoridensha on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @09:40PM (#34255201)

MANPADS is for shooting down aircraft ("ADS" = air defense system). You're thinking of the Javelin and NLAW anti-tank weapons. Anti-tank rockets have been around for many decades; they're nothing new, but the latest ones are just more effective and have better range. IIRC, the Javelin itself was designed and first deployed back in the 1990s, so it's not exactly new either. What's new in the Ukraine conflict is that Russians apparently don't know how to (or just can't) properly operate tank battalions.

Back to MANPADS: man-portable anti-aircraft weapons aren't new either. The US was giving Stingers to the Mujahideen in Afghanistan back in the 1980s to shoot down Soviet aircraft.

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Re:Amazon to Lay Off over 17,000 Workers, More Than First Pl... by anonreeeeplor on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @10:43PM (#34255653)

I am in the Ukrainian army. Sometimes, for fun, we shoot MANPADS at the tanks because we already took down all the jets. It’s super fun you should try enlisting.

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Re:Amazon to Lay Off over 17,000 Workers, More Than First Pl... by ojbyrne on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @09:00PM (#34254922)

The “ADS” part of MANPADS stands for “air defense system,” so kind of a malformed analogy.

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Re:Amazon to Lay Off over 17,000 Workers, More Than First Pl... by AgentOrange1234 on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @10:58PM (#34255762)

Air defense is to MANPADS as cloud is to Individual developer?

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Re:Amazon to Lay Off over 17,000 Workers, More Than First Pl... by tomrod on Thursday January 05, 2023 @08:23AM (#34259225)

Having been on both sides of the table, credentials are shortcuts for expected minimum knowledge base for technical understanding.

One should likely never use credentialing to substitute or proxy as a marker for creativity or capacity. Credentials only show a snapshot of knowledgebase at a specific point in time.

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