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0 pointstablespoon4y ago0 comments

> I believe the commenter was implying that their policy takes retention into account, and amazon simply doesn't value retaining employees

I think there's some Bezos quote about people being lazy and it being easier to extract labor from fresh hires trying to prove themselves.

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MattGaiser4y ago· 1 in thread

> Bezos believed that workers' desire to perform well decreased over time and that an entrenched workforce was a "march to mediocrity," Niekerk told The Times.

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-polices-based-jeff-be...

oblio4y ago

That's a solid degree of irony from someone that worked in the same place for 27 years :-D

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