Yes. Amazon hates you. I’ve worked there. It’s one of the few places that’s openly hostile to workers and openly says they’d replace you in a heartbeat if they could.
Leadership gives no shits. They’re all disconnected monkeys running around in circles hoping to make their bonus stock numbers go up.
They’re the same people that tell you how said it is and critical for layoffs to happen while plugging their stupid rocket project in the same all hands meeting. They don’t care about you.
Can we get a community rule banning any article shitty enough to use the word “slam” in a headline?
It needs to stop. Seriously. Being slammed is not a joke. Real, actual slamming, not the headline kind, has devastating consequences. People have been literally decimated (reduced by one tenth) by slamming. Words matter. Language matters. Stay safe and live gently.
Loans to build data centers have stopped (red flag anyone?) so in order to pay for them they have to lay off workers. AI is killing jobs, it’s just not replacing them.
Businesses can’t stop though. A line has to go up.
Publicly traded businesses*
Amazon isn’t replacing those workers with AI, instead they’ve been approved for roughly that number of H-1B Visas, in fact 33,181 exactly.
This sort of news just promotes the scam that is AI and distracts from real news, imo.
I pointed out the H-1B visas the last round of layoffs and was called a bigot and promaga. It’s probably another reason why journalists are avoiding that hot potato. Hopefully this time around people are waking up.
I’d ignore those people. You’re not a bigot for supporting domestic workers and not wanting them to be undercut
Moral debate about foreign vs domestic workers aside, I just think it’s unnacceptable to claim AI is capable of doing something it isn’t.
We’re going to burn life off the surface of the earth with the power costs of AI and it still hasn’t demonstrated any capability to truly replace workers.
The other thread about the h1bs and trump wanting to add a $100k price tag to them has a bunch of ignorant people in it, who do not understand how abusive companies are with h1bs. It’s literally modern day indentured servitude. They pay low wages to the h1bs which in turn keep the wages they would pay to citizens low. They also hold the h1b visas hostage, as they can basically tell the employee, if you don’t like the pay then you can go back home. It’s a lose lose, and anyone suggesting it’s not is naive at best and an idiot at worse.
This is unfortunately the reality of journalism in the current age.
Investigative journalism is on the brink of extinction. What little is left of it is drowned out by lazy reporting that copy pastes from corporate press releases and of course bite sized social media posts that captivate the short attention span of the TikTok generation.
Yeah? They were slammed? slammed? Shitty journalism.
I hope Amazon corporate starts unionizing. Amazon deserves it.
They were SLAMMED! Can’t you read?! No major corp can survive a slamming!
It’s a joke.
Lemmy Commenter Eviscerates CNBC Over Editorial Practices
destroyed
Come here just to comment on the slam. Looks like you have to covered though.
Slam dunk!
So slammed dude!
I’ve seen softcore porn with more slamming than anything the media has done to Amazon.
They laid off the people to free up money to build the data centers. This is what a lot of companies mean when they say they laid people off because of AI. It’s not because the AI did their jobs.
Someone needs to make “slam” a synonym for “unionize”.
Companies are salivating at the prospect of replacing their loyal employees with AI. And it’s telling that they don’t even feel they have to pretend to care about workers…
Haven’t seen ‘slam’ for a hot minute.
I’m seeing a lot of it in the comments!
Lot’s of peaple slamming its use…
A unionized Amazon R&D could be world-changing. Not only workers would take a lot of money from Jeff, but the power to shutdown a third of the world’s cloud infrastructure, including gov’t cloud infra is quite a bit more significant that what many other unions wield.
Oh, shit! Amazon got slammed! What are they going to do now?
SLAM
Oh Snap! Y’all got slammed, son!
SLAM!
