I saw this myself. When Amazon started Amazoning with me and I knew the PIP was coming, I didn’t panic. I did just enough to make them think I was taking the “focus” seriously, waited until my next vest and then the “severance or PIP offer”.
For those who don’t know how toxic Amazon really is, once you get the try to work through the PIP or severance offer, if you try to work through the PIP and fail (and you will), your severance amount is decreased to a third of the original.
But you can appeal the failed pip and if your appeal is denied, that gets cut to another 1/2.
So $40K would have quickly become less than $7K.
All of my coworkers on H1B were scared shitless it would happen to them. I was doing my 40 hours a week during my focus, refusing extra work, going on vacations and of course putting feelers out to all of my former clients (working in AWS’s consulting department) and former coworkers.
I had already paid off all of our debt, built up savings, sold all of my AMZN stock, and moved to state tax free Florida.
I knew someone would give me a job or a contract. H1B visa holders can’t work contracts and maintain their status.
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I saw this myself. When Amazon started Amazoning with me and I knew the PIP was coming, I didn’t panic. I did just enough to make them think I was taking the “focus” seriously, waited until my next vest and then the “severance or PIP offer”.
For those who don’t know how toxic Amazon really is, once you get the try to work through the PIP or severance offer, if you try to work through the PIP and fail (and you will), your severance amount is decreased to a third of the original.
But you can appeal the failed pip and if your appeal is denied, that gets cut to another 1/2.
So $40K would have quickly become less than $7K.
All of my coworkers on H1B were scared shitless it would happen to them. I was doing my 40 hours a week during my focus, refusing extra work, going on vacations and of course putting feelers out to all of my former clients (working in AWS’s consulting department) and former coworkers.
I had already paid off all of our debt, built up savings, sold all of my AMZN stock, and moved to state tax free Florida.
I knew someone would give me a job or a contract. H1B visa holders can’t work contracts and maintain their status.