Working at Amazon became detrimental to my mental health

> I confronted my manager, they accepted their mistake, took full responsibility and apologized for what had happened. They stated that my current performance was strong and I had nothing to worry about.

In my opinion, that wasn't a mistake. The manager was telling the employee that he was doing great for a long time and then suddenly told him that he wasn't.

What does "took full responsibility" mean in this case? The manager will face no consequences at all and the apology sounds a lot like a politician's apology.

Unfortunately there's not much that can be done with the situation. An entity that pays well can get away with insolence. No matter how poorly they treat their employees, there will always be a long list of people willing to put up with it. They hold a lot of power in this interplay.

Now this becomes a problem when the entity is also big, because the effects spill over into the rest of the ecosystem. Thousands upon thousands going through this place pick up bad habits and spread it elsewhere. Worse yet, these habits are looked up to because they are coming from a powerful place.

I think the lesson at the end of the day is we should not let any entity grow that big and powerful. It's a huge imbalance in society and as individuals it's in our best interest to prevent these structures in the first place.

How are companies like Blizzard being discussed in congressional hearings for having too much laddish culture, while Amazon is literally driving it's staff to suicide, and everyone in power is like "yeah whatcha gonna do, it's amazon after all".

Each time I see a recruiter’s message for Amazon, I recall that it is not a place I want to be.

Maybe the best thing to do is play the game of diagonals and never get comfortable anywhere.

Shoot me now. I will never put myself through the humiliation of belonging to an organization that has that little respect or understanding of humanity

There such a massive logic failure in these orgs that implement complex and arduous interview and screening processes then assume 10% of those people are trash and need to be regularly culled.

The words PIP Quota make me gag. As an on again of again people leader, I dread the thought of the only way to prove my value as a leader being to arbitrarily assign one of my people a PIP.

I’ll never get this sentiment.

I used to work for FANG and most of my coworkers were godawful and just barely scraping by. This is part of the reason I decline a management role there and only transitioned to one after I left.

The pip process isn’t great but there really isn’t another tool out there to get similar results out of workers.

I have sympathy with the author of course but they come across as very naive. Of course this is how large corps work, they demean their employees, intentionally instilling fear and doubt through these ridiculous performance appraisal systems. That fear creates a feeling of dependence on the employer, so you then work harder, longer hours desperate to keep your job and survive. Just don't work at these places.

i don’t understand the naivity - i cannot imagine these companies to promote you regularly or when you deserve it. it’s always “if you do well this year maybe next year”. people need to negotiate.

I feel like at least some of these types of issues would be mitigated if (experienced) people work as (part time) contractors for one or more companies?