Amazon lays off another 9,000, because why not?

Amazon kicked off this week by cutting another 9,000 jobs, bringing its total layoffs to some 27,000 since late last year. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy shared news of the upcoming layoffs in a letter to employees Monday, adding that most of the cuts would be in Amazon's AWS, advertising, Twitch, and "People Experience Team," also …

[Anonymous Coward]

Will they at least be offered a ride in the bosses space ship or a leaving do on his mega yacht? Thought not.

[ecofeco]

They can blame anything they want

...but we know it's about keeping the peons from getting uppity and demanding more money.

[Snake]

Re:peons

Yep. Just like Zorn in The Fifth Element, "Lay off a million". Because who cares about the peons over your quarterly reports??

[gandalfcn]

Re: They can blame anything they want

The peons are complicit in the entrie, overarching dishonesty that is G00gle.

[Esoteric Eric]

Re: They can blame anything they want

Maybe if you put as much effort into bettering your own life as you do moaning about the success of others you wouldn't be such a miserable twat

[The Oncoming Scorn]

Pets & Cattle

"adding that most of the cuts would be in Amazon's AWS, advertising, Twitch, and "People Experience Team," also known as human resources."

Now the PET's get to experience how Amazon treat's it's staff like cattle.

[A.A.Hamilton]

"Amazon ... shared news of the upcoming layoffs in a letter to employees Monday," I've read it a few times: it still doesn't make sense. Is there an apostrophe missing from the word 'employees' ? Not that that would improve understanding: I have no idea what an employee's Monday is. Should I understand it to mean 'employees named Monday'? But no, there can't be 9,000 of them, surely? Or could it mean that El Reg needs to wake up to itself and abandon this irritating headlong rush to the bottom in its American abuse of the English language?

[I miss PL/1]

BS

Most teams weren't done with their analysis. Amazon is a clockwork org. You are given a task and it is due. No exceptions. This just goes to show how Jassy is not the guy.

I should have dumped my stock when Bezos left.

[Anonymous Coward]

Kuiper still hiring - seriously?

What can one say? It's one way to move Fire Phone from the top of the failure list.

[that one in the corner]

Bye Bye DPReview

Ever since stumbling across it, I've not bought anything photography related until I've had a chance to check DPReview for the specs & reviews, even when I've been buying that gadget from Amazon (yes, I've got an Amazon account and I've bought stuff from them!). Yes, there are other photography sites, but I appreciate the consistency and (for the bits I'm into) completeness of their kit database. Plus the fact that they don't take themselves too seriously.

Now I've just received an email that dpreview.com is to be shuttered in April, as Amazon wants to concentrate on Project Kuiper, Prime Air and Smart Homes. All of which will, of course, encourage me to spend more money with Amazon than I ever spend on photography. Not. Project Kuiper: Space trash. Prime Air: sky trash. Smart Homes: Ground trash.

Pah.