I'm an Amazon manager who found out I was on a Focus PIP after helping an employee

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An Amazon manager said they sought to go on leave after trying to help a direct report.

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My husband went through the Amazon Pivot process. It was crushing to watch him cry over losing his job.

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The wife of an Amazon corporate worker said she was sad to watch her husband go through the company's performance-improvement program known as Pivot.

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I worked in Amazon HR and was 'disgusted at what I was seeing' with performance improvement plans. Then I got put on a PIP and knew I had to quit.

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An Amazon HR staffer worked on the company's performance-review system then got put on a PIP.

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Amazon shut down a Slack channel where 2,000 employees talked about performance-improvement plans. Another one is up and running.

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Amazon shut down a Slack channel about performance-improvement plans.

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I thought I landed my dream job at Amazon. But after being put on an impossible performance plan, I quit even though I lost a $110,000 deposit on a house.

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Amazon has a performance-review system that includes an improvement program called Pivot.

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