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Everybody is different, but I'm sure we all have one thing in common: a desire to earn big bucks and not do any work. It seems some of us get to live this dream. An Amazon Senior Technical Program Manager (in his words, at least) went to Blind, a website where workers share their thoughts anonymously, to tell a curious tale of how he does "nothing" and gets $370,000 for it.
As reported by Deccan Herald, in the now-deleted post, relaxing at work was his goal when joining Amazon 1.5 years ago, and since then, he hasn't met any goals and closed only 7 tickets.
"I joined Amazon 1.5 yrs ago after I was included in Google's layoff. I joined with the intention of doing "nothing", getting free money, and eventually get pip'd. I put in about ~8 hours / week, mostly in meetings. Without exaggeration, I owned 0 kingpin goal (Amazon's goal process), resolved 7 tickets, and delivered 1 automated dashboard that I built using chatGPT in 3 days (but said it took 3 months)."
His day consists of "saying no to other teams wanting to integrate with my team or have them own 95%+ of the integration work," and no one seems to have noticed his lack of contribution. "How much longer will I last?" the employee asked, and I suspect the answer is "not long" since the story has been shared on different social media now.
Some people praised the author, while others were not very happy about someone else cheating the system. Not everyone believes this story is true, with one X/Twitter user saying the company is "infamous for the outrageous work assigned to developers" and the "bottom 10% are removed every year."
Another netizen, however, claims they have an acquaintance at Google who also does minimal work for $25k per month.
Whether it is true or not, the post doesn't look good for Amazon and the tech industry in general. I could see a work investigation coming and possible layoffs with it.
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