A common running thread about fascists is being fantasists. Trump’s tariff threat to force companies to re-shore is one of those fantasies. His plan makes sense if we are still living in 19th century when gunboat diplomacy, economic warfare, colonialism, or the general mindset of “might makes right” still works. But such reality has long gone and the world now has to be mulitateral. What Trump is doing is regression.
That’s a lot of jobs.
Sorry guys, the only way to pressure republicans to take action is a lot more of this.
Good luck.
It’s also on top of the 12,000 that were cut last year.
If they’re even going to try…
What? Is that headline in English?
Yes. They beat earnings estimates, but they are cutting jobs in anticipation of fewer Amazon shipments because tariffs.
Record profits! Job cuts! Capitalism, baby!
This is just saying they’re using their brain to recognize that there is a coming slow down.
Man I get a little tense when I see thousands of jobs cut at a time.
That’s a lot of people to compete with in the job market and a lot more people who’re now struggling to compete with the other thousands who lost their jobs.
BUT 'EM PROFITS!!!
I feel incredibly bad for them. I’ve been through it 4 times. Every time everyone else shrugged and said oh well that’s business.
Now we’re seeing how deadly and not normal layoffs are. And no I am not happy these people losses their jobs. Their families did nothing wrong and because of leadership failures, the rank and file get screwed over
People commit to working for a company. Companies need to have that same commitment for their workers. When shit goes bad , every leader should go before a single rank and file employee gets cut.
Enough.
All those jobs so we can have crap delivered to our doors.
And have a good chance of them being stolen.
Not the point.
It’s quite the perspective to see such a large slice of jobs created due to Amazon deliveries via USPS. In addition, to know that segment of jobs is for delivering Made in China product via Amazon.
I do have to wonder if Trump was mindful of this long game. Last time he said the USPS was getting ripped off by Amazon.
*UPS
I cancelled Prime after Bezos was hanging out at the inauguration. It’s all garbage anyway. Let it burn. Good luck to those who need a job.
The larger issue is AWS (Amazon Web Services) which generates more than 70% of Amazon’s profits. The retail side is almost inconsequential.
I haven’t used AWS for any personal stuff in a while, but as someone who’s been in the field for near on two decades, the institutional inertia behind “cloud == AWS” is frustratingly pervasive over the tech industry at large.
AWS is unavoidable, other clouds are barely a blip for now. But even if the other clouds surpassed AWS, it’s not like that’s an improvement. Google Cloud? Oracle Cloud? Microsoft Cloud? Are you really going to bat for them just because Amazon = Bezos?
There are other providers outside of the behemoths.
Not to mention: cloud vendor lock-in is something that can and should be mitigated by intelligently designing and architecting against it.
Prime used to be great for lots of things. Specifically heavy things. Now it’s 50% more than even using UPS or fedex to ship something like car parts to my door.
The usual Enshittification circle of something good turning into shit once you have users.
I pay monthly to get free shipping on things that I realized I didn’t even need in the first place. I haven’t bought anything in a month, and realized that I was buying things only because I could, not because I needed them.
I bought a 3d printer. Now all I buy is filament (plastic)
That’s their stated reason, but I’m sure installing automated small package sorters at every delivery hub last year is the real driver of this.
My brother’s best friend since high school drives for UPS. I just emailed my Trump-voting mother to let her know that she may have voted for him to lose his job. Fucking tragic.
Trump White House is now in damage control mode figuring out how to hide the real unemployment figures.
Amazon is absolutely livid about this. They felt those packages should’ve been shipped by them so that they could cut 20,000 jobs. It’s unfair! /s
