Amazon texts layoff notices

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00:00LOL, OMG, you up? These are messages you might expect to get via text. You're fired is not one

00:07of them. Well, no one told Jeff Bezos. Amazon is laying off a whopping 14,000 employees and at

00:13least some of them reportedly learned their fate via text message. Classy. Business Insider first

00:19reported the move claiming that Amazon sent affected workers two messages early Tuesday when

00:24the layoffs began. One message urged employees to check both their personal and work emails before

00:29coming into the office because that's not ominous. This was apparently so they wouldn't show up at

00:35the office to find out that they were let go because their badges didn't work. Woof. That is

00:40ice cold. The second text might have been worse. The second text told employees to call the help desk

00:47if they had not received a quote email message about your role. Being laid off sucks, but being

00:53texted by your job and instructed to then call said job to see if you still had said job,

00:59that's just rude. What's worse? This could be just the beginning. The reduction in workforce,

01:04which HR says is aimed at cleaning up bureaucracy, could, according to Reuters, land 30,000 people or

01:109% of the company on the unemployment line over the next few weeks. Even more cuts are expected in

01:16January once the busy holiday shopping season is over. Santa doesn't need to check twice. Bezos is

01:21no doubt on the naughty list.