Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

you must mean the REDS and GREENS

Hear hear, anon027! Unfortunately, many in Chevron who share that same work ethic are now gone, primarily because they were labelled as "arrogant", "demanding" , and not politically correct to work with.

Walmart pays better than Amazon.

There were several rebuttals from Amazon employees to the NY times story. Please read both sides of the story before forming an opinion.

So, having destroyed brick and mortar stores -- without ever having to turn a profit itself - Amazon destroys people as well? This will stop me from shopping there again.

I had some idea that Amazon was a tough, demanding place to work, but the conditions described in this article are sickening. It makes me question why I would want to continue to buy from a company that treats its employees so poorly. The thought that someone is working on a holiday or vacation or interrupting time with their kids to figure out why I abandoned a shopping cart makes me ill. Then there are the fulfillment warehouses and how they are run. Horrible. Obviously Bezos doesn't care as long as the money keeps piling up for himself and his shareholders.

Work is not daycare for adults. This country was not built on 40 hour work weeks and treating the office like a social club.

America needs more companies like Amazon that demand more from employees and rewards them accordingly. Our nation's Silicon Valley culture isn't perfect and can burn people out, but is also the reason we have Apple, Microsoft, and Google keeping us competitive. Tesla is on the brink of kicking our oil addiction that has crippled us with years of war and environmental catastrophes. Should we force them to work forty hour weeks and keep us in the automobile stone age for another generation or two?

Yes, Amazon clearly could afford to make tweaks to their work/balance culture, but it is not mandatory for anyone to work there. Workers aren't being tricked off the farm into boarding a bus to sew zippers onto jackets for pennies a week, they are at the top of their skill sets and aware of the achievement culture.

Stack-ranking and the ability to have your feedback about management taken seriously by management might force out a few employees before their time but is infinitely preferable to having dead wood in the office watching soccer games all day while managers run a department into the ground.

Readers need to understand that for a company to offer six months of paternity leave, Christmas parties, and free snacks, it must have someone in the office actually doing the work. We should be thankful a few companies in America are still putting in the hours.

Amazon folks typically work 80 hours / week. You are EXPECTED to work weekends. Backstabbing is institutionalized and openly encouraged. For more info check out this NYTimes aricle: Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace - Amazon is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers to get them to achieve its ever-expanding ambitions - link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-in-a-bruising-workplace.html?_r=1

Thanks for sharing this, at least we know some companies are hiring