Jeff Bezos is a psychopath who revels in hurting people.<\/p>\n
His ethos permeates Amazon, and it’s why you hear so many stories about the inhumanity of its workplace, not just in its warehouses, but in its corporate offices.<\/p>\n
It turns out that Amazon gives its a mangers a quote of people to fire each year, which has led to a practice called, “Hire to Fire<\/a>,” where they hire people for the express purpose of firing them in a few months so that they can hit their numbers.<\/p>\n Why does this world embrace sadists?<\/p>\n Amazon has a goal to get rid of a certain percentage of employees every year, and three managers told Insider they felt so much pressure to meet the goal that they hired people to fire them.<\/p>\n “We might hire people that we know we’re going to fire, just to protect the rest of the team,” one manager told Insider. <\/p>\n The practice is informally called “hire to fire,” in which managers hire people, internally or externally, they intend to fire within a year, just to help meet their annual turnover target, called unregretted attrition (URA)<\/a>. A manager’s URA target is the percentage of employees the company wouldn’t regret seeing leave, one way or the other.<\/p>\n \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n