Amazon ends hazard pay while Bezos net worth climbs $30B during pandemic

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I want to lock this guy in an elevator with Elizabeth Warren and Katie Porter.
I would prefer it to be him and a dozen of his warehouse employees.
 
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Or me. I’d punch him in his long neck.

I girl can dream...
 

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I think the French had the right idea, a couple of hundred years ago. Bezos should be first.
Careful what you wish for, Trump mobilized the angry masses... Now that they are armed and deprived of moral inhibitions... just imagine wht would happen when they focus their entitlement on a share of wealth...
 

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Why single out Bezos, who owns about 9% or 10% of Amazon rather than the owners (including institutional shareholders) of the other 90% of the business, who have presumably seen the value of their shares grow by the same amount?

I'm a bit unsure about the wisdom of connecting share value with employees' pay and conditions, since the company's share value isn't something that can readily be converted into cash to pay the workforce, at least not as a long-term plan -- share value is not the same as money in the bank, any more than is the value of your house until you come to sell it.

There's plenty for which to attack Amazon as a business, but I'm not sure this is a particularly sound line of attack -- the decision to end double-overtime and hazard pay would have been a bad one regardless of Amazon's share value, and, had the circumstances been different, the argument "We had to end the programme because the fact our shares were falling meant we could no longer afford it" would have been spectacularly wrong.
 
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This is why I cancelled my Amazon Prime account and never shop at Amazon. Ebay and Craigslist fill my needs for the moment , and doing without (yes, I'm still a cheapskate).
 
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This is why I cancelled my Amazon Prime account and never shop at Amazon. Ebay and Craigslist fill my needs for the moment , and doing without (yes, I'm still a cheapskate).
I avoid them too whenever possible, however the cheap Chinese open source hardware circuit boards and controller modification sets seem only to exist on Ebay Alibaba and Amazon...

When my choice is between an Adafruit RTC module for 30 bucks plus 2 month shipping time or 5 Chinese no name RTCs for 5 bucks I can get tomorrow I cannot always decide for quality...
 

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Or me. I’d punch him in his long neck.

I girl can dream...
I forgot to mention none of his employees would be wearing ppe. And that it would suffer a breakdown.
 

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I read that Kroger (grocery store) is ending their $2 pandemic raise for employees.
 
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If you're all that upset: Don't buy at Amazon.
If enough people do so, they'll get the message.

And otherwise it is good for yourself.
I for instance never use Shell, because how sloppy they are/were in Africa with their oil production.
Shell is still around, but I feel good about it when I skip a Shell station to fill my car up with another brand instead.
 
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If you're all that upset: Don't buy at Amazon.
If enough people do so, they'll get the message.

And otherwise it is good for yourself.
I for instance never use Shell, because how sloppy they are/were in Africa with their oil production.
Shell is still around, but I feel good about it when I skip a Shell station to fill my car up with another brand instead.
The problem is they drove a lot of their competition out of business. I am self isolating as much as possible. Where should I get my supplies? Ebay?