Amazon Coverup

Word has gotten to me that of the many of my fellow employees who have filed EEOC or state discrimination complaints against Amazon, the usual response from the company is that the employee is entirely at fault for whatever they’re complaining about; as though age, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation or even religion could actually be that person’s fault. It’s just their attempt to blame everyone else instead of looking at the behavior of their abusive and unqualified managers, who target people they don’t like to try to get rid of them.

People have complained about age discrimination in promotions, and Amazon’s response is always to say they weren’t qualified. But if you look at their own job requirements for that job, you can easily see that not only were they qualified, but the person or persons they actually did hire didn’t have the qualifications the company says those other people didn’t have, but they were hired anyway. And they were a lot younger than the other people who did apply for those jobs.

And those people they call HRBP’s: the basic requirements for that job is at least a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources Management, with a preference for a Master’s Degree, along with at least five years of HRBP experience. But if you do even a simple search for that in LinkedIn, you’ll probably find that the HRBP at your site doesn’t even have those minimum qualifications at all. Most of them have degrees in something entirely unrelated to HR, and were promoted to that position because of favoritism, not because they were qualified. And they're among the worst of the worst in following the Amazon principles and the standards of conduct. So while they’re telling you that you’re rude, or insensitive, or disrespectful, they’re also the ones making threats to you while behaving in the exact way they say you do.

Don’t believe anything management says, including HR; they’re not there to help you or support your goal to move up. Their only goal is to keep you down, and when you’re not satisfied with that, they resort to trying to find ways to get rid of you, even if that means making things up that never happened.