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1. At Amazon, any a particular employees promotion isnt his or her bosss decision, but rather, depends on whether that boss can convince his or her peers that an employee is promotion-worthy. In other words, not only does an AMZN worker need to suck up to his or her supervisor, but it would behoove them to suck up to every other boss in the building. This can make office politics very tricky as well as cut-throat in that it allows someone to keep a better employee (i.e. competition) ineligible for any kind of advancement where they might become a threat.
2. The average warehouse worker, which is a huge segment of the AMZN employee base, earns an average annual paycheck of $23,582. Thats on par with Walmarts lousy pay. In some of those warehouses, Amazon employees were forced to raise a serious stink before air conditioners were installed. (Note: $23,582 = $11.33/hour, and if that's a typical wage average, it's right-skewed, meaning the typical worker makes less but the 'average' is raised by a minority of higher-paid workers)
3. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, Jeff Bezos has created a culture at AMZN where any customer complaint is presumed to mean an employee has made a mistake, or an employee is ultimately somehow at fault. Example: Any emailed customer complaint that Jeff Bezos receives and apparently thats a great number of them are simply forwarded to the appropriate individual with nothing more than a question mark added by the CEO. A resolution and a plan of action to prevent the problem from arising again is expected within hours; theres no one at AMZN who doesnt know what the lone ? actually means...
And make no mistake Jeff Bezos isnt simply being efficient by adding a sole question mark to complaint e-mails. He uses plenty of words when he feels its merited. He has been credited with saying the words Are you lazy or just incompetent? and Youre a total idiot, but do it anyway plenty of times.
There are better ways to get someones attention, and it might be less humiliating to simply fire an employee whos truly an idiot, incompetent or lazy. Under the right circumstances, harsh words like that can lead someone to commit suicide.
Unfortunately, Jeff Bezos doesnt seem to have any other way of making his point.
http://investorplace.com/2013/12/jeff-bezos-amazon-amzn-worst-company/2/#.VNLyz2ctGgw
and here's a comment from someone who worked in one of bezos' warehouses (the ones that are locked and allowed to heat up to over 100 degrees while compassionate Bezos keeps ambulances stationed outside to take away any workers who drop from dehydration)
AMZNhorrorshow's avatar
As a former masters level manager for AMZN, I could not even bear to watch what was done to the hourly warehouse workers, let alone participate. Worst job I ever had. I have never seen such contempt for workers, and I've managed globally, including China! Young, naive MBA's can bring their dogs to work at AMZN Seattle, but warehouse workers don't even have time to get to their lunch and back within 30 mins, in a million square foot bldg during a 12 hour shift, and that's just a minor problem. ( Most Chinese workers, btw, have a chef on the premises)
All of the sheeple excuses about "at least they have a job," plays right into the hands of Jeff "Beelzebub" Bezos...but as long as you get free shipping, who cares.( until they eat the competition, and end it) I am not religious, but that place made me believe in evil! True story.
http://investorplace.com/2013/12/jeff-bezos-amazon-amzn-worst-company/2/#.VNLyz2ctGgw