Overview
- The account, shared on TeamBlind, claims the poster was laid off after 17 years at Amazon and now wants work that feels more meaningful.
- The poster says years of nonstop work cost family time, describes crying after the layoff email, and recounts cooking breakfast and taking the children to school for the first time.
- Indian Express reports that thousands of Amazon roles were cut last month as part of a restructuring focused on artificial intelligence initiatives.
- Financial Express and Indian Express contextualize the story with Layoffs.fyi data showing about 112,732 tech job losses across 218 companies in 2025, attributing cuts to AI, automation and economic uncertainty.
- No independent confirmation of the individual’s employment or layoff has been published in the coverage, and the articles do not include a response from Amazon.