Amazon Cuts Follow 30,000-Job Round, Straits Times Says

What BBN said about it

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorAs we told you earlier, Amazon made fresh job cuts, mainly in retail.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorNew: the Straits Times says these follow a 30,000-job round that began in 2025.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorMoneycontrol carries the same retail-focused story. Joining us via satellite is Bartholomew Quillfeather-Nakamura, a management consultant. Welcome, sir.

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   Bartholomew Quillfeather-NakamuraGloria, thank you. I bill four thousand dollars an hour, so I'll be brief: when a company cuts jobs, it has fewer jobs.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe Straits Times calls these small reductions since the big round. Is this a pattern, or a company trimming?

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   Bartholomew Quillfeather-NakamuraBoth. Think of it as a haircut given one strand at a time. Our proprietary framework calls this a slow haircut.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorYou charged a client for that framework. Was the framework a drawing of a scissors?

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   Bartholomew Quillfeather-NakamuraIt was a very expensive scissors. Laminated. The client wept with gratitude and then sent a wire transfer.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorAmazon has about one million five hundred seventy-six thousand employees, per its filings. Does a small cut even register?

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    Bartholomew Quillfeather-NakamuraGloria, to a company that size, a layoff is a sneeze in a stadium. To the person sneezed out, it is a hurricane.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThat was almost useful. I am concerned. Do you have a real recommendation, or only a slide?

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    Bartholomew Quillfeather-NakamuraBoth! The slide says synergy, and my invoice says four thousand dollars. I also once got stuck in a revolving door for an hour.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorWe will have to leave it there. I have been asked to leave embassies for less. Futures are flat.