"With as many as 14,000 Amazon employees set to lose their jobs, some workers who said they were laid off by the e-commerce company are posting through it on social media. Several of them are sharing updates in real time as they process their feelings about the reductions. The person who posted the "get ready with me" video, for example, had planned to take her followers along with her for a morning run when she said he learned she was affected by the cuts."
""I no longer have a job to go to after I go running," the TikToker said in one of her videos. A few others are posting almost hourly updates on how they're doing since the cuts were announced. One user, who said she's on vacation in Mauritius, posted a video two hours after she said she learned she was laid off. She said it was 'divine intervention.' 'I'm not freaking out,' she said. 'I'm also still very much in shock.'"
"One TikTok creator who said she worked at Amazon told followers on Tuesday, when the company announced the layoffs, to place bets on whether she'd be affected. The next day, she said she'd been let go after more than eight years at the company. Since then, her updates have been a mix of jokes, including telling her cats the news, and crying videos. One of her videos has gone viral, with nearly 200,000 views in less than 24 hours."
Amazon is cutting up to 14,000 corporate positions. Many affected employees are posting about their layoffs on social platforms such as TikTok and LinkedIn, offering real-time updates and emotional responses. Some creators mix humor with calls to action, while others share shock, tears, or bittersweet reflections about future collaboration. Examples include a worker who learned about her layoff before a morning run, a person who posted two hours after learning she was laid off while on vacation in Mauritius, and a long-tenured employee whose candid videos about being let go quickly went viral.
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