A Culture of Fear

It's crazy that Jeff Bezos told everyone who has a management abuse problem to go to HR back in his August email to the whole company. We've already seen what that does in our org and the results are not good. Our top performing manager was being mistreated by his senior manager starting last spring, so he took very clear proof of his mistreatment to HR and their response was to very quickly show him the door. Apparently, HR doesn't like to be shown evidence of bad management behavior, so anyone who has a bad manager at Amazon needs to just tolerate it because there isn't apparently isn't any other recourse if they want to stay at Amazon. Everyone is even more afraid of HR than they are of their bad managers, so I'm sure this will eventually lead to some major legal issues for Amazon.