At Amazon, you can appeal your firing to a jury of coworkers

At Amazon, you can appeal your firing to a jury of coworkersAt Amazon, you can appeal your firing to a jury of coworkersIf youre on the chopping block at your job, the decision of whetherbei or not you get fired is usually in the hands of your manager. At retail giant Amazon, however, you can defend yourself and appeal the decision to a jury of your peers. Announced last year, the Pivot probation program is designed to help underperforming employees in danger of being fired in Amazons growing workforce.If your manager puts you on this performance-improvement plan, you are reportedly given three optionsQuit and receive severanceWork to meet scheduled performance goals set by your manager for the next weeks or monthsAppeal your managers decision to put you on this performance-improvement plan to a global jury of coworkers in a video conferenceAmazon workers on track of being fired can plead theircase in trial-by-juryAmazon said that the global panelists selected for this trial are Amaz on workers who have similar titles at the company. The odds of an employee winning their case are not good, however. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, employees lose 70% of the time. The odds are still better than most of us who get to appeal our managers decision 0% of the time. If employees win, they reportedly get placed out of Pivot and can choose to work with the boss they just publicly challenged in a video conference duel or can get placed on another team. When they lose, they must choose between the quit and get severance option or the option of completing the performance-improvement plan goals.The reason why employees are likely to lose may come from the structure of the panel itself. Bloomberg reported that employees within the company have complained about the unfairness about the panel. Employees can dismiss panelists that they think will be biased against them, but overall employees do not get to choose who they want to be part of their jury. Panelists can be employe es who have never worked with you personally.One anonymous Amazon worker said the choice of dismissing panelists does not help her At the hearing, the video conference made it difficult to connect with any of the panelists or engage on a personal level, and she sweated through her shirt. She wasnt invited to watch her bosss presentation, and he got the last word. She waited by the phone until the career ambassador called to tell her shed lost, Bloomberg reported.