‘Uncomfortable Conversation:’ Amazon Walks Back Pay Raise, Blaming Computer Glitch
Amazon had to walk back an announced pay raise for corporate employees after a computer glitch miscalculated their compensation, according to internal emails obtained by Business Insider. Managers were advised that they would have to prepare for an “uncomfortable conversation” with employees losing out on the raise they were promised.
The pay glitch will be embarrassing news for a company that is regularly in the headlines over poor working conditions. This glitch, however, appears to have affected the company’s corporate workforce, not its warehouse workers, the more frequent source of the online retailer’s employment controversies.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy (Isaac Brekken/AP)
Via the New York Post:
Amazon clawed back raises for some recently promoted corporate employees after discovering an internal glitch made the pay packages more lucrative than they should have been.
Amazon brass gave managers the bad news in a Thursday email obtained by Insider. The managers were told that the impacted employees received larger bonuses than they should have because the payouts were erroneously calculated based on outdated Amazon stock prices.
It’s unclear how many Amazon employees are receiving less money than they initially expected following the promotions. But an internal IT ticket related to the software glitch suggested that about 40% of workers promoted in the current quarter have “been impacted by this issue,” according to Insider.
In an email, Amazon warned its managers that they may need to have an “uncomfortable conversation” with their employees in the likely event that “the promotional cash value your employee will now receive is lower than you originally discussed with them.”
The news comes shortly after Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced that the company would scale back hiring due to worsening U.S. and global economic conditions.
Like most tech stocks, the value of Amazon shares have plunged over the past year. The company’s shares are now valued at roughly $115 per share, down from highs of nearly $186 per share in mid-2021.
Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News. He is the author of #DELETED: Big Tech’s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal The Election.
WSJ: Amazon Hires Unsafe Trucking Companies Twice as Often as Competitors
A recent report from the Wall Street Journal claims that e-commerce giant Amazon hired known dangerous trucking companies twice as often as its competitors.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon uses a huge network of delivery services to transport merchandise around the U.S. But many of the trucking firms that it has hired for its deliveries are reportedly more dangerous than other companies. The companies include one whose driver was found with a crack pipe after running an Amazon trailer into a ditch in Minnesota and was convicted of driving while under the influence of narcotics.
Amazon delivery trucks (Todd Van Hoosear/Flickr)
Another driver contracted by Amazon was involved in a fatal accident in Canada, losing control of his vehicle while braking just two months after his employer ignored orders by police to fix the truck’s brakes. A third driver at another Amazon contracted firm had two crashes during a single trip between Amazon warehouses, careening across a Wyoming highway into an oncoming truck, killing its driver.
All three of the companies contracted by Amazon reportedly raised red flags at the U.S. Transporation Department, according to an analysis by the Wall Street Journal. Between February 2020 and early August 2022, over 1,300 Amazon trucking contractors received scores worse than the level at which DOT officials typically take action, according to the WSJ.
Trucking contractors that worked for Amazon were more than twice as likely as all other similar companies to receive unsafe driving scores, according to the WSJ. Approximately 39 percent of the regular Amazon contractors in the WSJ analysis received scores at that level. Trucking firms that worked for Amazon have been involved in crashes that killed more than 75 people since 2015.
Steve DasGupta, the safety director of Amazon’s freight unit, commented: “Our goal is zero accidents, zero fatalities. We run a very safe network of tens of thousands of carriers.” Amazon stated that it eventually suspended all of the contractors involved in the Minnesota, Kansas, and Wyoming crashes.
DasGupta also stated that the company recently made changes to its screening process for contractors and that as of July, 96.5 percent met Amazon’s internal threshold for safety scores.
Read more at the Wall Street Journal here.
Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolan
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