Who shops on Amazon?
 

I admit to doing a lot of shopping on the internet with proportionally more on Amazon. My wife's majority of reading is on Kindle. Today I read this article. From now on I'm gonna make the effort to shop around. The Prime Membership is going to be dropped.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/repor...ticle25979726/

Anybody who still wants to do business with Bezoz should take a look at the story in today's NY Times.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/16...html?referrer=

It's a workplace designed for weasels.

Bezoz owns the Washington Post too. We're doomed.

Thanks for the info.

F#@k Amazon!

It doesn't sound much different than what what junior engineers experience in A/E firms, new hires at law firms and doctors in residency experience in terms of grueling hours and near slave-like exploitation. As exploitative as it is, it's a great (and sometimes necessary) way to cut your teeth in these industries.

Amazon reads like perennial residency. :(

I've known for several years what a Hell hole Amazon for it's employees.

But I still shop there. :o

Probably will continue to too.

It's just too damned convenient.

I will make no further attempts to rationalize it.

"It's a workplace designed for weasels." Ike Bana

It's a workplace designed to turn the worker into a weasel. A worker accepts a bonus upon being hired, and perhaps a moving bonus, and then finds out through experience that in order to succeed he must become a weasel.

The point is the job place "Amazon Coporate" turns him into weasel.

When a lawyer reaches partner or Dr graduates from residency or professor becomes tenured the pressure is lessened. It doesn't sound like that happens at Amazon. You get terminated for illness, death in family, or vacation. It sounds like a never ending pressure cooker for warehouse workers to middle management to upper management.

And the prices I'm paying as a consumer aren't that much cheaper. I'm gonna make it a point to no longer shop there. YMMV.

That pretty much 'splanes my feelings WRT Amazon. I keep a wish list until it gets to $35 for free shipping and then punch the button. Easy, peasy. The bottom line is that they provide a desired service.

Everything happens on a continuum. On the continuum of scumbag insane entrepreneurs, Bezoz is hanging off the extreme end by a thread. I haven't done business at Amazon for years. I won't be starting any time soon.

A saying around the Amazon campus, "Amazon is where overachievers go to feel bad about themselves." HR at Amazon is reminiscent of the Gestapo in 1933.

I have one of their facilities down the street. It's absolutely crazy during the holidays requiring rerouting traffic & police watching over all of the mayhem 24/7. :eek:

Maybe they were inspired by this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kZg_ALxEz0

Maybe they're crazy. Back before I went to counselor school when I was the VP of purchasing for the packaging company, all I ever needed to hear from the management of one of my suppliers was that their sales force was available 24/7...and I was out looking for different suppliers.

80 hour work week. You're an asshole if you demand it. You're a fool if you accept it.

Nobody writes dialog like Mamet! Nobody!

Coffee is for closing only.

the good news is you are fired.

A memorable piece of cinema.