Amazon Layoffs: Amazon is reportedly planning to reduce 14,000 managerial positions by early next year in a bid to save $3 billion annually, according to a Morgan Stanley report. This initiative is part of CEO Andy Jassy’s strategy to boost operational efficiency by increasing the ratio of individual contributors to managers by at least 15 per cent by March 2025.
Middle management deserves it.
Upper management deserves everything it gets. Middle management is often underpaid and expected to do all the jobs of their own plus their superiors.
Some *organisational tasks will always be needed. Middle management does that plus fielding some amount of customer service, plus a lot of what upper management takes credit for.
The system is fucked, but we shouldn’t let the people doing barely anything to earn their yachts turn us against those grinding their own bones to glue the grind-house together.
(No, I’m not a middle-manager.)
They’re fucking climbers. Every middle manager takes the job because they want to be upper management someday. Zero sympathy.
I’m gonna assume you don’t know any better. Not saying there aren’t bad or stupid middle managers, but usually the middle manager is the person who got shoved into a “management” position they probably didn’t want, and all they really get to do is take all the heat when decisions they didn’t make blow up in their face. It also usually comes with false promises of raises but upper management never really intends on giving it.
It’s like, top level squeezing the bottom out 101.
I’m pretty fucking sure you still have to apply to become a middle manager. You don’t just evolve like a Pokemon.
They voluntarily became the manager’s gofers because they’re disgusting climbers and they get what they deserve. 🙂
I feel like all of your knowledge about “middle management” is derived from The Office.
I work for a living honey. My knowledge is derived from dealing with them.