Slippery Slide To Third World Status

Before 6AM today, the President tweeted:

[quote]Amazon is doing great damage to tax paying retailers. Towns, cities and states throughout the U.S. are being hurt - many jobs being lost![/quote]

Background: Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon owns the Washington Post.

So, as the WaPo continues to provide factual coverage, and reports the real story, and seeing that people don't believe Trump's claims (that the WaPo is fake news), he's going after the owner (who does not actually get involved in the WaPo's content).

Amazon is one of America's success stories, it employs hundreds of thousands of people, and has made $Bs in investments in this country's manufacturing and infrastructure. But, because the WaPo refused to become FoxNews, then let's use the power of government to shut them up.

Doesn't this sound like something a third rate, third world dictator would do?

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Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

It appears successful, that's true. It's certainly large enough !
But Amazon is renowned the world over as being a bloody awful company to work for !

Northwest · M

@Picklebobble2 It's in my backyard, and quite a few friends and former colleagues work there. It's no worse than any of the other Seattle tech companies.

That said, I would agree that it could be an awful workplace. It's still better than Trump's coal mines, and the job comes with golden handcuffs, called stock options. Employees can walk away, and get another job, without having to move, but they stay (hint: the money).

It's even awful to get to work, unless you live in one of the residential towers, surrounding the company (more than 90% Amazon employees occupancy). The views are great, plenty of restaurants, a Tesla dealership at the floor level, and you're surrounded with lakes, like across the street.

I avoid the area between the hours of 6AM and 9PM, because it can take 45 minutes to cover a few blocks. But, when I have to do there, I know some side roads that even Wayz is not aware of :-)

But I digress, because this is not what the topic is :-)

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

I was going to post an article i read a few years ago, then did a bit of research on youtube and found dozens of scathing videos on the work culture....it's all there.

Northwest · M

@Picklebobble2 You can if you want to, but I gave the 100,000 feet level summary in my earlier post. Yes, for some, it's an awful place to work. There's got to be a reason why it takes months to book a decent therapy appointment in Seattle.