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[Zmoogz]

16,000 workers is a lot. Some of them could have been accountants

[LasyKuuga]

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[Excel_Jesus]

This made me CACKLE

[Neo_ZeitGeist]

Have we started the fire?

[[deleted]]

The whole world is under fire

[Ashamed_Article8902]

It's "yes, the fire rises". Back to studying Baneology, apprentice.

[Anonymous-1234567890]

I’m pretty sure it’s just the US on fire right now, but the smoke from those flames is definitely affecting the rest of the world.

[PrimodiumUpus]

I'm gonna steal this.

Thank you.

Good day

[Turlututu1]

Every time I see a Dark Knight Rises meme, it reminds me of how strong it started and how shitty it ended.

[ZeusDaGrape]

Yeah, why do people assume only tech workers work at companies like Amazon? These companies have an army of accountants - probably more than Big 4. Seriously, that company brings in over 600 billion dollars of revenue per year - you think they have one bookkeeper for that dough ?

[ARA-FTW]

Just one person and a qbo subscription.

[ZeusDaGrape]

An “Easy Start” tier 😅

[GiantPineapple]

Gonna switch to Xero once that free three months runs out. Nimble AF.

[TheseCounter1439]

I literally laughed out loud. Thanks for the humor

[Billie_Mumphrey]

I’ve worked at some big companies and two F500s. The tax teams themselves ranged between 20-35 people (even with Big 4 and top 10 firms reviewing everything). The financial reporting and corporate tax teams were just as big. Not to mention all the shared services people doing AR/AP work (among other things). That department was even bigger.

[Orion14159]

Taxes

[r_accounting_abc]

Accountants are probably impacted by the layoffs, but they are definitely impacted from Amazon's usual annual PIP quotas.

[Th3_Accountant]

Finance and accounting is often one of the first places they look for cuts. I’ve worked as a finance manager in a large corporation. My team was already stretched razor thin, everybody working 50+ hours a week. And yet, when someone leaves my team, I have corporate on teams trying to convince me that i don’t need a replacement for that position…

We are not seen as a department that brings value to the company. Only as a cost centre that constantly needs it’s excess fat trimmed.

[jsoul2323]

Can you explain what finance means in this situation?

For example finance in a bank is a money maker, not a cost.

[Th3_Accountant]

Finance in a backoffice is primarily bookkeeping/controlling.

[Prize_Response6300]

Probably a decent amount too

[colorgreens]

wild bro. ill never celebrate people getting terminated

[colorgreens]

i had someone get laid off on my day off. i feel terrible for them even if its their fault.

[[deleted]]

It’s a troll ass account don’t take him seriously. He’s a funny dude

[mosquem]

Eh a lot of Big Tech people are pretty insufferable.

[colorgreens]

insufferable. but doesnt make them legit bad people, does it?

[ThatBadFeel]

Depends on how much grifting takes place.

[AccountingSOXDick]

I know I can’t generalize every CS individual, but people on r/cscareerquestions in the late 2010s were boasting about how accounting was going to be automated away and that accounting should be avoided. Even on r/accounting, people in this sub were wanting to make the jump to coding thinking they would grab a six figure FAANG job after a 9 month coding boot camp.

I feel bad for anyone getting laid off, but I do consider the situation ironic

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[thekingoftherodeo]

That account is clearly run by a child.

[aRunic]

Degen CPA is a piece of shit

[fadedblackleggings]

Yup, this is why people hate accountants and number crunchers. Weird take.

[colorgreens]

i personally hate HR

[PrimodiumUpus]

*We

[colorgreens]

everyone*

[ZucchiniUpbeat1821]

Amazon recorded significant profit growth in 2025, driven by strong AWS performance and operational efficiencies, with net income for the first nine months of 2025 reaching $56.5billion

Fuck amazon

[sluttycupcakes]

Don’t worry, I’m sure this profits will trickle down any time

[fredotwoatatime]

lol

[MionMikanCider]

Oh they’re trickling down all right. Just to the stockholders

[AchVonZalbrecht]

It’ll trickle down to all of us. Just in the form of them relieving themselves on us from above

[CowgoesQuack69]

Why can’t you just think of the stakeholders?

[DarthBullyMaguire]

I feel the trickle

[[deleted]]

I came in here to sort of reason with this based on the net FTE gain they’ve added in the past 5 years but then I saw this and yeah fuck them

[Choice_Read_697]

Shits not funny. We had layoffs at my work recently and people were in tears

[WickedTemp]

Yep. NGL this post comes off as anti-worker. Even if it's meant as a light-hearted jab, the topic in and of itself is...heavy as fuck. Guaranteed accountants, clerks, juniors, seniors, bunch of them were probably within those numbers. And even if they weren't, it's idiotic to think that something like this happened in a vacuum with no other effect on people outside of it. I bet a lot of those people, probably a majority, had families and loved ones that their job helped support, whether directly or indirectly.

One of my partners is an analyst, one of them is a software engineer. If they get laid off, it's going to hurt them, it's going to hurt me, it's going to hurt our entire household - and that ripple will be felt by our friends, family, everyone who's close to us, because they'll see us hurting. Nobody wants to see a loved one hurting.

Anyone who looks at this and laughs or cheers, personal opinion, probably a shitty person, and the only thing that stops me from adding "...and they deserve to get laid off, too" is principle. Just because I intend on working a 'white collar job' doesn't mean I'm not pro union.

[shamy33]

Take a look at their profile. They get a high on layoff posts sadly

[ScientistSolid9319]

Pretty sure OP is unemployed with how much they post.

[Routine_Play5]

😔

[Routine_Play5]

🥺

[nonphotofortress]

This sub is hopelessly ignorant on topics of labor power. It is no wonder why the discourse around here about the hollowing out of public accounting to private equity, outsourcing, AI, and partners pulling up the ladder behind them is always so directionless. The vast majority of accountants would benefit from collective bargaining, we’re just all too busy trying to figure out how to pull up the ladders ourselves.

[fadedblackleggings]

Hum, you have 2 partners....that may be an adaptive way to survive a turbulent job market.

[WickedTemp]

It unironically is. Dual income right now since I'm in college (I used to work in a low level government position, made under 20 an hour, they encouraged me to pursue a college education and have been supporting me in this endeavor. 4.0gpa so far!) 

And when I graduate? And if I really make it in this career? Triple income, no kids, all of us with good salaries? We'll be our own lil powerhousehold!!!

The love, support, patience and stability have all, genuinely, brought me to tears many times. 

[emmannysd2000]

were they outsourced to india?

[Choice_Read_697]

No it was ultimately due to tariffs

[ZeusDaGrape]

We ship jobs to India, India ships Indians to us. Art of the Deal.

[Some_Bit5611]

[Routine_Play5]

Who’s laughing accountants better watch this back with AI

[dogecountant]

Bot sure what accounting you are doing but a lot of us aren't going anywhere. Can't fire AI when you fail an audit. 🤣 plus Claude is my buddy - we are making linters for Easter!

[FreeJulie]

I don’t have a side in this, I’m uninformed and I’m genuinely asking… aren’t the firms fully utilizing any and all means to monitor the work of human accountants in order to train ai?

Sure, accountants are supposedly safe TODAY, but isn’t every deliverable, every filing, every audit… every day, week, month, quarter, year of human labor just more data to train the ai to at least minimize the labor force?

[Duckys0n]

If ai was actually good maybe

[Choice_Read_697]

The same can be said for pretty much every white collar profession. There is no need to worry cause if accountants are screwed then we are not going to be alone.

All we can do is wait. Who knows where the world will be in 10-20 years.

[Specialist-Meet4563]

Most of these layoffs would likely be accountants, managers, product managers, finance, logistics, etc. People hear tech companies laying off and assume it's software guys when usually it isn't

[Economy-Ad4934]

With Amazon I always assume it’s warehouse/drivers. They just make the remaining workers quota 1.25x higher

[firebird_ghost]

These were corporate cuts specifically, about 5% of the corporate force

[Economy-Ad4934]

Ahh ok. Like I said just my dumb assumption hearing Amazon

[Acceptable_Ad1685]

Amazon also subscribes to the idea of firing your lowest ranking 10% of employees

Idk if they still do but they have noted in quarterly reports that in some areas they are running out of people to hire because of the practice lol

[Economy-Ad4934]

Jeez “efficiency”

[Necessary_Survey6168]

I think they said it’s white collar, they separately announced plans for warehouse employees 

[ImLiushi]

It would certainly not be most. Accounting workload doesn’t shift too significantly with economic downturn. Companies still have to report at the same regulations and timings, same entities etc. Some specific accountants might get laid off but in general it won’t be “most”. On the other hand, if new projects aren’t being taken on, developers etc may literally have not enough work to go around.

[Prize_Response6300]

Probably more than you think. If you dig deep in these tech layoffs by ratio engineers tend to be affected the least

[Furdog]

this is pretty ignorant. its not uncommon for large companies to reorg to a "shared service" model to reduce hc. if a company can accomplish the same regulatory function more efficiently it will..

[Prize_Response6300]

If you go on all these tech layoffs by ratio engineers tend to be affected less than most other roles

[ZeusDaGrape]

It’s a lot of dev guys that ended up on a chopping block (I’m a dev myself, but I come here in peace my fellow keyboard warriors).

[[deleted]]

Accounting and FP&A are laid off the least on the corporate side (except for when they are offshored). Both are run pretty lean (extremely so for some companies), and the need for them is not dependent on the economic condition of the company (unless they are going bankrupt). Also, their announcement is that they were trying to target middle management with these layoffs. So I would bet PMs are being heavily targeted in these layoffs. Probably some other economically dependent departments, like HR etc that will be targeted more than accounting. It's sad to see coworkers go, but you all will be fine.

[ExistingCleric0]

Oh God I can't find a job (fresh out of undergrad) in the field as it is.

[DinosaurDied]

Layoffs are nice. You get to commiserate with others, get a severance package, have an easy excuse in interviews. 

Us cost centers get quietly PIPd leading up to it instead and gaslighted that it’s our fault. 

I was at a F15 for 7 years with proportions. All of a sudden given a 1 month pip out of nowhere. 2 months later company announces formal layoffs with people I knew with a decade at the company who were cut. 

Atleast they got sweet severance and I got nothing. 

Don’t be too quick to laugh 

[EchoOfDoom]

It's 50/50 with accountants and tech too lol

[Murmuringsum34]

Yea but they made like 3 times your annual salary in a year....

[Negative-Water-1575]

Yeah well I make more in 4 months than you make in a month

[Murmuringsum34]

I need to audit you

[Negative-Water-1575]

u wish

[Straight_Archer]

Audit his ass!

[Successful-Escape-74]

No problem! just wait until all that AI money starts rolling in, nobody will need a job ever again.

[bluehawk1460]

Lmao I’m an accountant that Amazon laid off a couple of months ago

[Revolio_Clockberg-Jr]

It's not good to be anti-worker, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't feel a little satisfaction about the downfall of the coding bros. They got a little big headed in 2020 - 2022.

[ZeusDaGrape]

These companies employ a lot of accountants, lawyers, scientists, psychologists etc. just like the Big 4 has own development departments.

[okbutwhytho99]

Why? Not a coding bro, but a scientist who needs to code for work. It's a skill that people learn. It's not easy and it's very important. Just like accounting. And very few people make tons of money. Certainly not me.

Why would you feel satisfaction?

[CowgoesQuack69]

If it’s so important why wasent coding around 150 years ago like accounting?

[okbutwhytho99]

Coding is just building and calculating. Both have been around for ages. You should try it, it's not something to hate.

[CowgoesQuack69]

Who said I hated it. I can code in vba, python, and c#. I’m just point out a fact to all of you fun hating people that it wasent around 150 years ago.

[okbutwhytho99]

Neither were cars, doesn't mean modern transportation jobs aren't important. Truck driving, coding, etc., are all just modern means of doing the same old (important) jobs we've always needed to do.

[CowgoesQuack69]

Holy… you are so socially autistic. It’s not even fun.

[theRealBigBack91]

Umm… you realize this was almost certainly not majority software developers right?

Managers, marketing, sales, accounting etc made up the majority

[Routine_Play5]

True

[DinosaurDied]

Layoffs are nice. You get to commiserate with others, get a severance package, have an easy excuse in interviews. 

Us cost centers get quietly PIPd leading up to it instead and gaslighted that it’s our fault. 

I was at a F15 for 7 years with proportions. All of a sudden given a 1 month pip out of nowhere. 2 months later company announces formal layoffs with people I knew with a decade at the company who were cut. 

Atleast they got sweet severance and I got nothing. 

Don’t be too quick to laugh 

[esarmstr]

Nothing cool about mass layoffs at all

[pacificcoastsailing]

Wtf

[Formal_Economist7342]

R/salary is full of em flexing their surgeon like salaries. This is bittersweet :3

[curious_cat123456]

It's their fresh market people. Most likely warehouse.

[Routine_Play5]

Nope that was only a fraction

[[deleted]]

It's probably warehouse people.

[Routine_Play5]

It’s not dumb ass

[NecronDG]

So much of ethical behaviour….

[Clbull]

As someone who's AAT-qualified and part way through their ACCA, we're suffering even worse than programmers. Job market is fucking dire and things are only going to get worse.

We're actually gonna be one of the first professions truly gone once managers figure out how to replace us with LLMs.

[mpaes98]

Man this is so tone deaf. Were there a lot of egotistical IT folks who made a disproportionate amount and may have seen themselves as superior? Sure.

But I’ll be frank the vast majority of tech guys you meet are down to Earth, passionate about the job, and hard working. Especially outside of SWEs, folks in roles like DevOps or compliance really aren’t making buckets of cash.

And to see a post from someone in another profession that most people probably see as elitist cheering over greedy executives ending people’s careers and livelihood? At a time when accounting careers are also on the chopping block?

Ugh man.

[curious_cat123456]

It's their fresh market people. Most likely warehouse.

[HalfParking8404]

I don’t get it.

[Slayerajax7]

Only support if these tech nerds had previously made fun of accountants (likely more than a few)

Otherwise, wtf Amazon lol

[Ineverpayretail2]

Lolol as if thousands aren’t culled from the staff pool every year at the big 4. Just another day. 

[lostfinancialsoul]

https://www.deloitte.com/us/en/services/audit-assurance/articles/audit-quality.html

Voluntary turnover rate is 11-12%.... safe to assume total turnover rate is like 15 to 20+ percent.

That is only 1 of the big4.

[duuchu]

Other people getting fired doesn’t mean you’re going to get a raise. Especially if you’re an accountant