Yup 14k getting layoffs
UPS has eliminated 14,000 management jobs and 34,000 positions from it's operational workforce this year
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More than 300k federal workers
Mass Amazon firings
Mass ups firing
Farmers are going into debt
Add on smh shyt is ugly
Mass Amazon firings
Mass ups firing
Farmers are going into debt
Add on smh shyt is ugly
Clayton Endicott
Superstar
“Firing…firing…firing UPS oh oh
Firing…firing…firing the Amazoooon.”
Amazon confirms plans to lay off 14,000 corporate workers as part of wave of cuts
Retail giant, which is vying to reverse pandemic hiring spree, attempts to cut costs and slim down its operation
www.theguardian.com
and these greedy companies are still makinmg billions
bring back teh guillotines
bring back teh guillotines
desjardins
Veteran
Sad. Alot of those management types are dudes with HS degrees and lifers. They worked their way up over 20-30 yrs from package handlers and drivers. On top of that the options for management logistic positions are probably limited.
Richard Glidewell
Yall done tore all the bottom of ya shoes w/me!!!
All that dismissive talk butches use to slight folk is out the window now......they gone need a new tired ass line to throw around now
YepYoucaught therecovered from the vapors?
Scustin Bieburr
Baby baybee baybee UUUGH
If you didnt see this coming i dont know what to tell you.
A company's goal is to maximize profits and minimize losses.
The reason A.I. and automation is being so heavily invested in isnt because it produces a usable product for YOU the average person. It is because it is a profit saving tool for the companies that are investing in it.
Imagine higher levels of productivity with less financial costs. With less humans you can shrink departments like HR, you can stop paying health insurance, vacation, parental leave, etc. You no longer have to compete for workers with other employers because you no longer need workers. You no longer need big offices either because the majority of your work force lives in one room in the form of giant computers processing the requests.
The heavy investment in driverless vehicles isnt to make your life easier. You'd have to be a moron to think these guys dont know what street cars, high speed rail and busses are. Those are transportation methods that get people where they need to go quickly and without input from them. That is basically a "driverless car" the point of the autonomous vehicle is to eliminate the costs that come with paying drivers and paying for their training and insurance.
At all levels this technology is meant to achieve the central animating principle of all business in a capitalist system: cut costs, increase profits. And morons voted for politicians who want to double and triple down on this job destroying technology.
So here's what's going to happen: the layoffs will continue. The money that would have been spent to hire people or pay severance will be hoarded. If the market signals an a.i. bubble bursting, much like during covid and earlier this year, they will immediately take that money and buy their own stock and buy more stock in a.i. companies to shore up the value and make it look like it was simply a small dip. This investment climate has trained people to see a dip in price as a discount, so people who maybe wanted to buy some shares in Nvidia or Microsoft but couldn't because the share price was too high, will see the reduced price as their chance to get in while the stock is low so that when it shoots up again they'll have made money and now own shares they couldn't have afforded earlier.
But what about all of those people without jobs? That's no longer UPS or any employers problem. They dont care. Those workers are material for the gig economy to chew up and spit out until that gets automated fully too.
A company's goal is to maximize profits and minimize losses.
The reason A.I. and automation is being so heavily invested in isnt because it produces a usable product for YOU the average person. It is because it is a profit saving tool for the companies that are investing in it.
Imagine higher levels of productivity with less financial costs. With less humans you can shrink departments like HR, you can stop paying health insurance, vacation, parental leave, etc. You no longer have to compete for workers with other employers because you no longer need workers. You no longer need big offices either because the majority of your work force lives in one room in the form of giant computers processing the requests.
The heavy investment in driverless vehicles isnt to make your life easier. You'd have to be a moron to think these guys dont know what street cars, high speed rail and busses are. Those are transportation methods that get people where they need to go quickly and without input from them. That is basically a "driverless car" the point of the autonomous vehicle is to eliminate the costs that come with paying drivers and paying for their training and insurance.
At all levels this technology is meant to achieve the central animating principle of all business in a capitalist system: cut costs, increase profits. And morons voted for politicians who want to double and triple down on this job destroying technology.
So here's what's going to happen: the layoffs will continue. The money that would have been spent to hire people or pay severance will be hoarded. If the market signals an a.i. bubble bursting, much like during covid and earlier this year, they will immediately take that money and buy their own stock and buy more stock in a.i. companies to shore up the value and make it look like it was simply a small dip. This investment climate has trained people to see a dip in price as a discount, so people who maybe wanted to buy some shares in Nvidia or Microsoft but couldn't because the share price was too high, will see the reduced price as their chance to get in while the stock is low so that when it shoots up again they'll have made money and now own shares they couldn't have afforded earlier.
But what about all of those people without jobs? That's no longer UPS or any employers problem. They dont care. Those workers are material for the gig economy to chew up and spit out until that gets automated fully too.
all those people lost their jobs and this was your first thought huh
you hearing that a lot or something? questionable username detected!
BrehUPS isn’t hiring
In 2024, Amazon's total annual revenue was $638 billion, with a net income of $59.2 billion.
Went from UPS is hiring to UPS is firing 
Sobering, potentially true and maybe too pessimistic.
Mankind has endured tons of disruption and signals the end of times with each one. I totally get how this time may be different but I do think time will truly tell how this plays out.
AI could create more opportunities similar to what happened with the Internet v1. There was a bubble then but the .eventually things got better. This is one scenario but there are many.
