Leak: Two-Thirds of New Amazon Employees Leave Within 90 Days

This is exactly what happened when two of my friends joined Amazon to work as in store shoppers at whole foods. They did their training, got paid, did the (incredibly intense) job a few days, asked themselves “is this really all there is to life” and left. They showed the company the same courtesy the company would have showed them and just didn’t turn up for shifts.<p>If you treat your people as things, you shouldn’t be surprised when they either hate you or just don’t care.

I used to live near a large Zappos, then both Zappos&#x2F;AMZ warehouse, in poor area where it was a decent job.<p>The local forums were full of people complaining they were fired for silly reasons right before their 3 month mark, when they&#x27;d become permanent and get benefits. This was oh, about a decade ago.<p>Now they&#x27;re sounding the alarm because the employees are just quitting instead? I have a really hard time feeling sorry for Amazon, here....

&gt; from entry level roles all the way up to vice presidents, the lowest attrition rate for one of the company’s 10 tiers of employees was almost 70 percent, with the highest reaching a staggering 81.3 percent.<p>How long till they run out of people? This can&#x27;t be sustainble in the long term.

&gt; workers are twice as likely to leave by choice, rather than because they were laid off or fired.<p>&gt; the issue is widespread throughout the company, not just with warehouse workers; from entry level roles all the way up to vice presidents, the lowest attrition rate for one of the company’s 10 tiers of employees was almost 70 percent, with the highest reaching a staggering 81.3 percent.<p>&gt; around three percent of the company’s hourly employees left each week<p>Wow. That sounds even worse than things reported in the past.

Nobody wants to work anymore

Realistically, how much can you make at Amazon pretending to work before they figure out and fire you?<p>Because, honestly, once you realize it’s ethical to do so, Amazon being a bad actor on purpose…