The Bosses Never Change.

An internal Amazon memo proposed a smear campaign against the employee leading coronavirus protests over conditions at the retail giant’s Staten Island warehouse, according to a report

The company’s general counsel David Zapolsky, in notes taken at a meeting from a daily update with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos about COVID-19, discussed a plan to single out fired worker Christian Smalls as “not smart or articulate” — and to raise questions about his behavior.

“We should spend the first part of our response strongly laying out the case for why the organizer’s conduct was immoral, unacceptable, and arguably illegal, in detail, and only then follow with our usual talking points about worker safety," wrote Zapolsky in comments leaked to the website Vice.com.

Zapolsky issued an immediate mea culpa to Vice, but the African-American ex-employee wanted no part of it.

“They’re digging their own grave,” Smalls told the Daily News. “It’s borderline racist. These people are disgusting. They should be ashamed of themselves. It’s like a vendetta against me ... For what? For doing the right thing?”

The leaked notes also recounted a discussion among Amazon executives about using Smalls to discredit the wider labor movement at the company. Staten Island workers at the JFK8 warehouse began efforts to unionize two years ago.

“Make him the most interesting part of the story, and if possible make him the face of the entire union/organizing movement," wrote Zapolsky.

Smalls, who estimates as many as nine workers from the warehouse have gotten coronavirus, was absent from work on a mandatory quarantine order before his firing hours after Monday’s protest. He is calling for the shutdown of the massive facility for a two-week cleaning.