Jeff Bezos is a psychopath who revels in hurting people.

His ethos permeates Amazon, and it’s why you hear so many stories about the inhumanity of its workplace, not just in its warehouses, but in its corporate offices.

It turns out that Amazon gives its a mangers a quote of people to fire each year, which has led to a practice called, “Hire to Fire,” where they hire people for the express purpose of firing them in a few months so that they can hit their numbers.

Why does this world embrace sadists?

Amazon has a goal to get rid of a certain percentage of employees every year, and three managers told Insider they felt so much pressure to meet the goal that they hired people to fire them.

“We might hire people that we know we’re going to fire, just to protect the rest of the team,” one manager told Insider.

The practice is informally called “hire to fire,” in which managers hire people, internally or externally, they intend to fire within a year, just to help meet their annual turnover target, called unregretted attrition (URA). A manager’s URA target is the percentage of employees the company wouldn’t regret seeing leave, one way or the other.

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The most senior executives at Amazon, including incoming CEO Andy Jassy, closely track their URA goals, according to internal documents obtained by Insider. Jassy, for example, is expected to replace 6% of his division through “unregretted” departures on what appears to be an annual basis.

Something is deeply broken in our society.

I don’t know how to fix this.  My only advice is that if you go postal at work, go after senior executives first.