A few people I grew up with are frequently the "best workers in the company" and are similarly fired suddenly after a few months. If you haven't seen the pattern you can be forgiven when you believe them the first time.
Not having to pay the $3000?
If the unemployment makes up for it, maybe they're banking on him being dumb or intimidated, or maybe they're just dumb themselves.
If such an incentive did exist I suspect we will hear a great deal more of these stories and won't have to rely on a second hand account retold anonymously.
I feel like these comments are really giving a lot more benefit of doubt than Amazon deserves based on their previous actions.
That said, I'm surprised Amazon doesn't have a policy about avoiding firing around bonuses like this because it seems like such bad PR if a newspaper picks a story like this up and runs with it.
So, this kind of shit really does happen, at least to some of us. Some are smart enough to leave the sinking ship before it tanks their career.
They didn't fall apart but got fined.
Don’t get me wrong, Amazon or the manager might in the wrong here.
But when you only hear from one side, it reminds me of my coworker who complained of how poorly she was treated when she barely did any work and was eventually fired after a year.