I know someone who worked at Amazon while you were there, at a sortation center. They told me that despite a big vinyl decal plastered on the wall there, none of the so-called managers actually followed those principles; they used them against people to prevent them from getting promoted, claiming they had broken rule in the handbook, even going so far as to gossip about them in emails to each other (which they discovered by suing the company for discrimination).
That employee figured out a way to reduce errors that supposedly cost the company a lot of money every time it happened, which they said was an average of 15 times per day, per site. So, he figured out how to eliminate those errors and get the job done more efficiently, which would save the company more than $84 million in the first year alone across all sites. All they had to do is change one thing.
But that person's manager refused to even bring it to their manager, claiming it would cost money, even though it would have cost a few pennies (if that), while saving $84 million or more. In the end, Amazon did nothing, and those errors are still happening every day.
Yep, that's some brilliant management there.
Amazon is not a good company to work for unless you're in management being overpaid for doing no actual work that you're asking everyone else to do for a pittance. Amazon hires and promotes people into management positions who don't even have the minimum qualifications for a job posting, but if a mere Associate applied for any job, they'd have to meet every single qualification to even be considered. So instead of it being about qualifications, it's really all about who's sleeping with whom.
I know someone who worked at Amazon while you were there, at a sortation center. They told me that despite a big vinyl decal plastered on the wall there, none of the so-called managers actually followed those principles; they used them against people to prevent them from getting promoted, claiming they had broken rule in the handbook, even going so far as to gossip about them in emails to each other (which they discovered by suing the company for discrimination).
That employee figured out a way to reduce errors that supposedly cost the company a lot of money every time it happened, which they said was an average of 15 times per day, per site. So, he figured out how to eliminate those errors and get the job done more efficiently, which would save the company more than $84 million in the first year alone across all sites. All they had to do is change one thing.
But that person's manager refused to even bring it to their manager, claiming it would cost money, even though it would have cost a few pennies (if that), while saving $84 million or more. In the end, Amazon did nothing, and those errors are still happening every day.
Yep, that's some brilliant management there.
Amazon is not a good company to work for unless you're in management being overpaid for doing no actual work that you're asking everyone else to do for a pittance. Amazon hires and promotes people into management positions who don't even have the minimum qualifications for a job posting, but if a mere Associate applied for any job, they'd have to meet every single qualification to even be considered. So instead of it being about qualifications, it's really all about who's sleeping with whom.