What kind of perverse logic is the take the mad money and agree to never work for Amazon again? People change, work environments change. If I signed an agreement to never work for an employer again I certainly wouldn't be spending my money there or recommend my friends work or shop there. The seeds of the downfall of the mighty Amazon have already been laid by the 500K employees who at some point will take the mad money, change jobs, bad mouth the company, stop shopping there, share horror stories and convince others to stop shopping there to.
I hope you're right. I would like to believe that bad culture can kill a business. But I think that people will keep shopping at Amazon despite the fact that they may have heard horror stories in the news, or through a friend of a friend. For better or worse, I think Amazon corporate culture really doesn't matter at all to 95% of Amazon shoppers.
I think "The Offer" makes a lot of sense but $5,000 isn't enough. My guess that they're just experimenting with a very low number for now. If it was something like $20,000 then it would really change the work dynamic and force people to really commit to work.
The Offer not only changes the dynamic between employees and company, it also changes the dynamic between employees and other employees. I think it probably makes people less tolerant of complainers in their midst. I could imagine that people would say, "If you hate it here so much, just take the money and get the F out."
What kind of perverse logic is the take the mad money and agree to never work for Amazon again? People change, work environments change. If I signed an agreement to never work for an employer again I certainly wouldn't be spending my money there or recommend my friends work or shop there. The seeds of the downfall of the mighty Amazon have already been laid by the 500K employees who at some point will take the mad money, change jobs, bad mouth the company, stop shopping there, share horror stories and convince others to stop shopping there to.
I hope you're right. I would like to believe that bad culture can kill a business. But I think that people will keep shopping at Amazon despite the fact that they may have heard horror stories in the news, or through a friend of a friend. For better or worse, I think Amazon corporate culture really doesn't matter at all to 95% of Amazon shoppers.
I think "The Offer" makes a lot of sense but $5,000 isn't enough. My guess that they're just experimenting with a very low number for now. If it was something like $20,000 then it would really change the work dynamic and force people to really commit to work.
The Offer not only changes the dynamic between employees and company, it also changes the dynamic between employees and other employees. I think it probably makes people less tolerant of complainers in their midst. I could imagine that people would say, "If you hate it here so much, just take the money and get the F out."