A few days ago, The New York Times published a report entitled "Walking into Amazon: Fighting Great Ideas in a Wounded Workplace".

A gesture that profoundly exposes Amazon's cannibalism culture.

I don't know how many people who followed the accusation, or former employees who jumped out to defend, really dragged that huge article to the end.

Because if you pull it to the end, you will find that all the words, all the little lives and all the little troubles are gathered into one message. It's unfriendly here, and you're not invited to dinner.

It became such a place because such people made it. If you are not such a person, don't come.

Maybe you once thought you were a strict, efficient and ambitious person, hated inviting guests to dinner, and then joined Amazon excitedly, and the result was unbearable. That only means that you were wrong about yourself in the past. In fact, you are not that strong. What you really like is the scene that everyone is talking about. Everyone is holding a cup and doesn't know what to celebrate. Finally, they didn't know who paid the bill and invited them to dinner.

One morning, almost two years after I left Amazon, I received a letter from my former colleague, which was repeatedly replied and forwarded with the title: Work hard, have fun and make history.

This sentence is the chicken blood advertisement of flax (Amazon). On the first day, newcomers usually have good people to popularize the company's first internal stalk-"Forget the content behind the efforts, that's a joke of our company, hahaha".

Many people's signature documents will also add this sentence, and then Have fun will be bold and prominent. In this way, every time I reply to the email at midnight, this shiny signature is like the brightest star in the night sky, with a magical' black humor', as if silently telling, you XXX, I XX, how all this happened.

The content of the letter is also very simple:

Today is my last day in Amazon, and yesterday I decided that today is my last day. The reason is that the buddy sitting on my left yesterday, who is not here recently, told me that he had leukemia.

He also told me to get out of here and live your life. He said that when everything is coming to an end, you will find that everything we do at work will not appear in your life flashback at all. Get out of here

Then the linen man responded to all kinds of feelings and said that he was inspired. I wish this resigned colleague a smooth and happy life near death, because I really don't know what to wish for.

I asked my former colleague this question. What do you think this letter will change?

He said that Mao can't change.

The next day, I still worked 16 hours, and I was still a colleague who didn't work hard. I still sent a shiny email signed by HAVE FUN at midnight:

I just want to know ... @ 3 am.

Because they are such a group of people, and this place is such a group of people get together and randomly name it Amazon. Just because they complain and laugh at themselves, don't think they don't like this place. They like this place very much. They like to be needed, assigned, urged and forced to progress to death.

Each of us has such hidden needs more or less, but Amazon just puts them on the surface.

1, right, after being called a dog?

People often get together and think that the United States is a very insincere country, and it is almost hypocritical to tolerate it. No matter how big the loser is, he will be gently held in the palm of his hand by the great goodwill of this society and will not let you fall on the real cement.

In short, you will rarely be reprimanded directly, talked about behind your back, framed and isolated when you work in the United States. These are all normal, but it is not good to scold you in person and kick you off the horse directly at the meeting, which is really impossible for male and female servants.

You don't have to worry about it in Amazon.

If you haven't been reprimanded for a long time and know that you are not awesome, it's probably time to change groups.

Explain that your group is weaker than you, and there is nothing to miss. People who are better than you can't help but scold you when they look at things with poor level. I really can't do it.

2. Being scolded for the first time is the new boss.

The first time I was scolded was by my new boss.

He asked me to make a flexible tool so that he could master how to arrange troops. I snorted and proudly held the tool to show my advantages.

At the beginning of the presentation, the boss said, what makes you think I will be interested in your trivial details?

Huh? Don't you care how this is achieved?

I asked you to make a tool to help me make a quick decision. These messy things in the middle are so slow and the output is so ugly.

I flew out of the office and finally made a minimalist tool like a fool's camera, hiding all my cleverness and self-righteousness.

He didn't praise me either.

One day, a leader asked me, what you do is neat and generous, and you don't have to waste much time to know what I want. Where did you get the experience?

I used to be called a dog in Amazon.

3. The female manager who was scolded for killing the devil for the second time.

The second time I was scolded, it was a female manager who was killed by the devil.

My predecessor resigned. As a temporary substitute, my boss asked me to hold a regional manager budget meeting without any training and no one to take it.

It was the first time in my life that I came into contact with budget vs. reality (budget and actual implementation), and I saw the vivid corporate GL and thousands of lines of accounts for the first time. I gulped it down and thought it would be okay to mix it up with my witty improvisation.

However, it did not succeed.

The female manager kept attacking and asking all kinds of strange questions. ...

Why is this company card thousands more expensive last month than two months ago? A group in India goes out to play every month and spends a little money. Why didn't you spend it this month? Why does the PTO in the United States exceed the budget many times? Is your prediction completely wrong?

After I said three times in succession, I'm not sure and I need to investigate, she turned directly to the big boss and said:

"I don't think this person can do budget analysis at all. I'm afraid this will make our expenses out of control. You should change to a more experienced person. "

But the boss didn't change me, but asked me to go to his office fifteen minutes before each meeting and dictate to him all the budgets and actual expenditures of eight countries last month.

Later, the female manager invited me to dinner, and I was always worried that I couldn't be friends with her. But I don't hate her.

A day later, a leader said, you are the most efficient budget analyst I have ever seen. You have done such a tedious job, but you have done it so well.

I used to be called a dog in Amazon.

4. Colleagues who were scolded for the nth time.

When I was scolded for the n th time, I was scolded by a person at the same level ...

As a crooked nut, I am used to being a silent person and a faceless person in the P group meeting. Once I was dragged to a meeting related to what I was doing. When someone asked me, I gave a brief explanation. At the end of the meeting, I said thank you and prepared to run.

As a China working in the United States, it's a normal scene, right? I hate these boring meetings that waste my precious time. Why don't I go back to my desk and make a model?

Some people can't watch it anymore. A colleague who had nothing to do with me came up to me and said, "Why are you so silent? That's what everyone talks about. Do you have no opinion? " Don't you care at all? Do you have ownership? "

I thought he was joking, and I didn't realize that things didn't happen as I expected until he walked away.

I was called a dog again.

Later, as you can guess, when Amazon has become a thing of the past, a colleague told me that what I respect most about you is that you speak loudly like a bulldog and work like you own it (you speak like a bulldog and work like you own this company).

Because I was severely scolded by the bulldog and I lost myself, I only have a strong desire to stop being so weak as soon as possible.

5. There is no conflict, no dissatisfaction, you just stay where you are gently.

Everyone wants to be treated gently by the world, but there is no conflict, no dissatisfaction, no one tells you that you are actually ordinary, and many times we just stay in the same place for many years.

In many companies, the goal becomes unclear when doing it. Sometimes they want political correctness, sometimes they want equality between men and women, and sometimes they want free lunch. These things are easy to have, but they are not necessary. As a company, as a group of professionals, it is uncomfortable to say harsh words and make difficult decisions, but it is reassuring at a deeper level.

Amazon's strict culture is to help each other face the cruel reality:

You are not that good, you can be better.

Work hard,

Have fun,

Make history.

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