Anyone with Amazon wants to make career, has a hard time: The work load is so high that employees work from their own salary assistants. Anyone who has cancer, has to fear for his job. These are the excesses of the system Amazon.
No one can say he was not warned. Anyone who advertises on Amazon, gets informed before the call, what is important in the largest mail order companies in the world. On the Amazon website 14 principles are listed that should explain any potential candidates which characterizes a good Amazon leader
A lot of it sounds obvious -. And most of it is probably also taught in every seminar for executives , But Amazon has the pressure to conform to this scheme, apparently displaces any human reason. This impression in any case, a report of the “New York Times”
Cancer is a private problem -. And a threat to the job
85-hour weeks are therefore on the agenda. Who does not manage the workload, has to think of his departure. Even a request for temporary work reduction – with plausible reasons -.
Here comes the career-suicide A woman who worked in the Kindle team, is still shocked by the reaction of her boss when she because of cancer wanted her father appear shorter: He called it “a problem”. Other Insiders report the “New York Times” of two women who were themselves suffering from cancer. Their suffering was dismissed as “difficulty” in “private life”, rather than support, there was a warning: Due to poor performance are their jobs at risk, the company stated
mission the day after miscarriage
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As the report further outlines will, in any case taken on personal feelings into consideration. This sets the case of another employee close: When she had suffered a miscarriage, they had to compete the next day on a business trip. The supervisor was sorry. “But the work still has to done,” he added
In fact, it is in one of the directives:. “. Executives keep relentlessly high standards maintained – many people may think that these standards are unreasonable high” Elsewhere it is pointed specifically at how these high standards have to be met: “Achieve more with less. [...] There are no bonus points for growing staff numbers, budgets or fixed costs “
” Have almost every person cry seen “
This is according to the report understood from Amazon so. Marathon Conferences on Easter Sunday, emails after midnight – and who does not respond immediately receives a text message with the question of why the answer fails
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Also at the meetings themselves, it goes to ruthlessly. “It is out of the conference room and sees how an adult man buries his face in his hands,” said an employee who worked in Buchvertrieb two years. “I’ve seen almost every person with whom I have worked cry at her desk.”
This is no wonder, the managers have an obligation to question decisions if they are of a different opinion – ” even if it is uncomfortable and debilitating. Executives have beliefs and are persistent. “Control
Staff and evaluate each other
no compromise should in any case be undertaken for the mere social cohesion. Instead, apparently smallest mistake in conferences are discussed in detail and denounced unsparingly.
Almost like in the GDR makes loud “New York Times” also an internal spy program that feels constantly watched each. So there will be an online vote system in which employees can skip over their counterparts – with the aid of predetermined formulations. A rule of thumb is: “I am concerned about its inflexibility and complaints of smaller tasks.”
pressure as a sect
particularly dramatic: The Ankreider will remain anonymous and need for its not justify accusations. The accused, however, must face the consequences. After all, who, once again find themselves at the end of the year in the ranking, which is produced with the help of these reviews in the rear area, would be released in the “annual culling”, reports insider.
Rather than terminate itself, make the staff seem like a sect itself pressure. The “Amazonians” as they call themselves, give everything for the success of the company. Whoever fails – or exit -., Is your own fault
workers stay only a year
“Once I have four days not slept,” said a woman who is six years the company’s headquarters in Seattle took care of greeting cards. “These projects were my babies. I did everything possible to make them successful. “They were even worth it to secretly employ a freelancer in India who could remove her some work.
The constant high load holding, however, only very few of . A study of the content analysts PayScale revealed two years ago that employees stay on average only one year at Amazon:. One of the shortest times among the 500 largest companies in the world
Addicted to the work culture at Amazon
Only 15 percent of employees remain according to PayScale more than five years at Amazon. spokesperson for the company explained that with the tremendous growth of the company. Because it constantly give new hires, only a few people were already more than five years there. data which would substantiate this claim, they would however not publish
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counter this presentation also speaks of what firms from the region Seattle report: Again and again, there are calls from Amazon employees who complained about unfair treatment. “Injustice is not illegal”, is little hope-giving words of a lawyer
Those who are going to especially shine with a feature in other companies:. The ability to boost their own careers. Quite a few say later that they had understood only after the withdrawal that they were literally become addicted to the Amazon work culture.
“grandest place where I hate to work”
“Many who work here feel this conflict: it is the greatest place to I hate to work,” says the former Amazon executive John Rossman. He has long since settled with his book “The Amazon Way” with the 14 guiding rules of the company – and now works as a management consultant
Bezos:. “I would so leave a company”
In a letter has Bezos dismisses the accusations. “The article does not describe the Amazon, I know,” he emphasized in an email to employees, which was released on Monday by several technology blogs. The report put individual stories about “shocking callous management practices” in the foreground.
“I’m convinced that everyone who works for a company, as described in the New York Times’, insane would stay. I know that I would leave as a company, “says Bezos on. At the same time, he calls the employees if they become aware of such cases, this must be reported to the Human Resources Department or directly to him personally.
” Since we do new things, we accept that we may be misunderstood for long periods “, stands in one of the rules for managers. The” New York Times “reporter said, according to own data with more than 100 current and former Amazon employees. If Bezos misunderstood by his own employees
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