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For those who didn't read the full article, here are a selection of quotes:
“You walk out of a conference room and you’ll see a grown man covering his face,” he said. “Nearly every person I worked with, I saw cry at their desk.”
The internal phone directory instructs colleagues on how to send secret feedback to one another’s bosses. Employees say it is frequently used to sabotage others... ...many workers called it a river of intrigue and scheming. They described making quiet pacts with colleagues to bury the same person at once, or to praise one another lavishly.
“One time I didn’t sleep for four days straight.”
Michelle Williamson, a 41-year-old parent of three [...], said her boss, Shahrul Ladue, had told her that raising children would most likely prevent her from success at a higher level because of the long hours required. Mr. Ladue, who confirmed her account.
A woman who had thyroid cancer was given a low performance rating after she returned from treatment. She says her manager explained that while she was out, her peers were accomplishing a great deal.
A woman who had breast cancer was told that she was put on a “performance improvement plan” because “difficulties” in her “personal life” had interfered with fulfilling her work goals.
A former human resources executive said she was required to put a woman who had recently returned after undergoing serious surgery, and another who had just had a stillborn child, on performance improvement plans.
A 2013 survey by PayScale, a salary analysis firm, put the median employee tenure at one year.
“Purposeful Darwinism,” Robin Andrulevich, a former top Amazon human resources executive [...] posted. “They never could have done what they’ve accomplished without that.”
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