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在亚马逊工作时，我生了孩子又得了癌症
“I Had a Baby and Cancer When I Worked at Amazon”
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一位前亚马逊员工的自述：她在亚马逊工作期间先后经历怀孕和癌症确诊，随后被公司解雇。文章讲述了自己在病中和育儿期间遭遇的保险中断、绩效压力等经历，并质疑亚马逊对员工（尤其是女性）的对待方式。
为什么经久不衰：它以亲历者视角揭示了大型科技公司光鲜福利背后的职场现实，多年后仍是讨论员工权益与企业文化时被反复引用的案例。
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大公司对孕期员工的打压并非亚马逊独有，根源在于中层管理机制
这故事一点也不让我意外。我怀孕七个月的妻子在谷歌正经历一模一样的事。她告知经理怀孕一周后，公司就想赶她走，让她在绩效改进计划（PIP）和两个月遣散费之间二选一。幸运的是，因为高危妊娠（双胞胎）医生让她休假。处理谷歌短期残障福利的保险公司一团糟，这些'福利'被设计得极难使用，让人干脆放弃。总之哪里都一样。我确信拉里和杰夫创业之初是好意，但现在落到中层管理者手里，和其他大公司没什么区别。
tinbad查看英文原文
This story doesn't surprise me at all. My 7 month pregnant wife is currently going through the exact same experience at Google. As soon as she notified her manager of her pregnancy, a week later they are trying to get rid of her. Made her pick between PIP or 2 months severance. Before she could make her decision, luckily, her doctor put her on leave because of a higher risk pregnancy (twins), she was entitled to short term disability but the company that handles Googles disability is a complete mess to deal with. It seems like make it super difficult to make use of these 'perks' so you just give up and don't bother. Anyway, long story short its the same everywhere. Im sure Larry and Jeff had good intentions when they started their companies but now that it's in the hands of middle management it's no different than any other big corp.
保险被终止的'系统故障'结果恰好让亚马逊省下大笔医疗费用，令人怀疑并非偶然
太离谱了：'癌症手术后，我还在产假中，就收到一封格式信函，说雇主提供的医疗保险已被终止。几十封恐慌的邮件和电话之后，我被告知这是系统故障。来回折腾一周后，他们提出给我COBRA保险，而那时我已转到丈夫的保险下，整个治疗期间都留在那边。'这个'故障'可真够大的，而且结果对亚马逊极为有利。虽然她说是'行政失误'，但让人不禁怀疑：让她转投丈夫的保险，亚马逊可能省下了几十万美元。
curveship查看英文原文
Holy cow: "After my surgery [for cancer], while I was still on maternity leave, I received a form letter saying that the health insurance provided by my employer had been terminated. Dozens of panicked emails and phone calls later, the whole thing was, I was told, a glitch in the system. After a week of back and forth, I was offered COBRA coverage, by which point I had already switched to my husband’s insurance, where I remained for the duration of my care." That's a pretty GIGANTIC "glitch," one that turned out hugely in Amazon's favor. Cheiffetz claims she accepts that it was an "administrative error," but you have to wonder. By getting her to switch to her husband's plan, Amazon may have saved themselves hundreds of thousands of dollars.
美国医疗体系让重病和生育者还要为钱焦虑，是制度性悲哀
令人悲哀的是，在21世纪、在世界上最富有的国家，生孩子和确诊癌症的人竟然还要为治疗和钱发愁——这本该是他们最不需要操心的事。多么可悲的现状。
grecy查看英文原文
It saddens me that in the 21st century in the richest country in the world people having babies and being diagnosed with cancer have to worry about treatment and money, the last thing they should be thinking about. What a sad state of affairs.
生病即失去保障的'保险'根本不配称为保险
如果你会因为生病而失去医疗保险，那它就不是保险。
kevcampb查看英文原文
If you can lose your health insurance for being sick, it's not insurance.
缺乏竞争让亚马逊有恃无恐，竞争才能约束恶劣的雇主行为
读来令人耳目一新。她结尾指向统计数据（或其缺失），而不是诉诸情绪或社会政治立场。我不知道亚马逊对女性或其他群体如何，但很高兴听说在那里工作过的女性在别处找工作并不太难。被一家拒绝你的公司困住，比碰上它更糟。我愿意相信竞争能在一定程度上遏制糟糕的公司。我待过最好和最差的公司都是财富100强，最好的那家靠保持良好的员工留存率获得竞争优势。亚马逊缺乏健康的商业竞争，唯一面临真正竞争的是云服务（而我认识的在那边工作的人似乎挺喜欢）。
badrabbit查看英文原文
That was a refreshing read. She concluded by pointing the reader to statistics (or lack thereof) instead of appealing to emotions or socio-political views. I don't know how things are for women or any group of people at amazon but I am glad to hear women that worked there didn't have too much trouble finding a job elsewhere. Being stuck at a company that rejects you is worse than merely running into one. I like to think that to some degree competition can mitigate bad companies.The best and worst companies I worked at have both been fortune100's with the best one gaining a competitive advantage if they kept a good employee retention rate. Amazon lacks a healthy dose of business competition, the only area where it faces sound competition is cloud services (and people I knew that work on that side of the business seem to like it)
追问亚马逊是否有法律义务公开员工留存率等数据
真诚提问：上市公司在法律上有义务公布文中质疑的那些数据吗？
bob_theslob646查看英文原文
Genuine question: are public companies required by law to publish those figures in question?
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