According to a senior employee of the online retailer, he joined Amazon specifically expecting to get paid to do nothing.
According to a senior employee of the online retailer, he joined Amazon specifically expecting to be paid to do nothing except wait to be placed on a Performance Improvement Plan. That was more than a year and a half ago, and nobody appears to have noticed that he hasn’t accomplished much and hasn’t contributed much to the firm.
The Amazon employee said in his now-viral confession on the anonymous site Blind that he is paid around 370,000 USD (about ₹3 lakh) for doing “nothing.” He recounted his ruse, wondering when his luck would run out.
Getting paid to do nothing
“After being laid off by Google, I joined Amazon 1.5 years ago. I joined Blind with the goal of doing ‘nothing,’ receiving free money, and ultimately being pip’d,” he stated. Blind is a forum where verified professionals may talk about anything connected to their jobs.
According to the Amazon employee, he gets paid a total of 370,000 USD in Market Comparison of Location as a Senior Technical Program Manager.
But in 1.5 years, he hasn’t produced any noteworthy work. He said, “I owned 0 kingpin goal, without exaggeration,” alluding to the internal goal-tracking system used by Amazon’s teams.
The employee went on to say that during this period, he had finished seven tickets and supplied one automated dashboard that he created with ChatGPT in just three days. He made up the story that it took three months to construct the dashboard.
According to the top Amazon employee, he now spends the most of his eight-hour workday attending meetings. He said, “My current day-to-day involves turning down requests from other teams to integrate with my team or having them handle more than 95% of the integration work.”
On X, a screenshot was posted of the Blind post. Look at it as follows:
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“Everyone else who genuinely wants to work and earn an honest day’s work is being ruined by these people,” an X user said.
Another joke was, “When the game is rigged, exploit the game.”
“It is entirely incorrect for people to link their sense of purpose and self-worth to their corporate employment. One individual said, “A person who works two hours a day, gets paid for eight, and still has time for their hobbies, family, and private lives, is winning at life.”
