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Circlejrkr t1_jd6aue7 wrote

They’re paying out the salaries for an excess of labor cost. No one looks at the balance sheet after several months and notices results far in excess of budget?

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yaykaboom t1_jd6c664 wrote

I thought oversight and excess is very common in big orgs.

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Circlejrkr t1_jd6cs39 wrote

Revenue/cost center owners receive balance sheets monthly at very large companies I’ve worked at. We meticulously manage headcount, being one of the largest expenses.

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josefx t1_jd97zpc wrote

And they will waste a billion for the illusion of cutting costs.

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Circlejrkr t1_jdb0dug wrote

In 3 months time, we will hear more whining about how they can’t find skilled workers. I’ve already read about callbacks to reemploy niche workers. These kind of ppl would have to pay a small fortune to get me to do something like this, otherwise I’d be happy to tell them to eat my ass.

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GarbanzoBenne t1_jd7mdu7 wrote

Right. Comprehensive "oversight" is hard because teams are different and specialized. There's not some omniscient team who is able to watch all details. Parts of the business consider normal what other parts consider excess.

But go over your budgeted costs and that'll be noticed real quick.

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SlowMotionPanic t1_jd7y4lm wrote

Amazon needs to mass fire it’s management, including all the way up the chain. This doesn’t just happen because of employees. Someone was signing off on all this supposed overhiring.

So why are the employees bearing all of the cost alone? Fire the managers which make more than them and undoubtedly cost the entire organization a huge amount of money between recruitment/on boarding, salaries, severance, and naturally opportunity cost.

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