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Amazon has long been derided for employment practices governing blue-collar workers in their warehouses but now The NYT takes a look at their management of information workers. A woman who had thyroid cancer was given a low performance rating after she returned from treatment. She says her manager explained that while she was out, her peers were accomplishing a great deal. Another employee who miscarried twins left for a business trip the day after she had surgery.

Adam Feuerstein Aveo Oncology (AVEO_) fired 140 middle and lower-level employees – 62 percent of its workforce – on Tuesday in order to save money to pay the salaries and bonuses of its top executives who blew up the company, decimated shareholder value and are too cowardly to accept responsibility for their incompetence. At Aveo, accountability starts at the bottom. By way of Derek Lowe