Workers have been begging for the Great Freeze to thaw — but not this way. With hiring largely frozen in the US, any uptick in firings could set off alarm bells. Just this week, Amazon slashed 14,000 jobs ; Paramount laid off about 1,000 ; and UPS announced it's shrunk by thousands more than expected this year. It's still a drop in the bucket — in terms of both Amazon's overall head count and the broader economy — and there's no guarantee that a wave of companies will follow suit. The overall