Some Monday mornings are better than others. Others are worse than some. For one Amazon employee, this past Monday morning was particularly bad.
No doubt, the poor fellow would have been better off he’d called in sick to work. Such a simple decision would have saved him from extreme agony. But, unfortunately, he showed up to Amazon’s Seattle headquarters and put on a public and painful display of madness.
From what we gather, upon arrival, he blasted out an email to hundreds of coworkers, including Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos, outlining several reservations he had with the terms of his ‘Performance Improvement Plan.’ After that, he executed a flawless swan dive off Amazon’s 12-story Apollo building, presumably to his death.
Yet, somehow, he didn’t die. He lived. What now?
Quite frankly, we don’t quite know what this has to do with the economy by and large. But we have an inkling there’s some relevance. Perhaps it has something to do with an economy that’s approaching self-destruct velocity, where every action has a far more negative reaction. Continue reading







