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would Jeff Bezos invite those poor amazon workers to his 23 Million Home?

38,964 6,569 April 24, 2018 at 03:29 PM
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so that those amazon workers could pee in his 23 million home.
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Iaaaiws
04-24-2018 at 09:29 PM.
04-24-2018 at 09:29 PM.
I wonder how many of those "poor Amazon workers" will ever push themselves to be even a fraction as successful as Bezos?
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04-24-2018 at 10:30 PM.
04-24-2018 at 10:30 PM.
The bromance continues.

Just ask him out on a date, xxxHolic.
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04-25-2018 at 05:15 AM.
04-25-2018 at 05:15 AM.
I bet OP got fired from Amazon. He sure has a huge chip on his shoulder about them.
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04-25-2018 at 09:03 AM.
04-25-2018 at 09:03 AM.
Quote from rayzac :
I bet OP got fired from Amazon. He sure has a huge chip on his shoulder about them.

He applied for amazon launchpad and was turned down.

Letter simply said "That's a Gatorade bottle, not a portable bathroom. No one will spend $79.99 on that".
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04-25-2018 at 09:24 AM.
04-25-2018 at 09:24 AM.
Quote from Iaaaiws :
I wonder how many of those "poor Amazon workers" will ever push themselves to be even a fraction as successful as Bezos?
Nice one, I'll take the bait.

If everyone had the capacity to do what people like Bezos do, the world would be a different place. Most people can't, not won't. And it's not just about pushing one self.
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04-25-2018 at 10:36 AM.
04-25-2018 at 10:36 AM.
Quote from Fallacy :
Nice one, I'll take the bait.

If everyone had the capacity to do what people like Bezos do, the world would be a different place.
Notice I never said they had to. Hence the reference to being even a fraction as successful.


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Most people can't, not won't. And it's not just about pushing one self.
Are you suggesting that most people end up in a job that represents the maximum potential that they have? I find that laughable.

Do you believe that most people put their maximum effort into their current job and just don't have the capacity or the opportunity to improve their position?

I think most people settle into a career that matches their drive, not their potential.
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04-25-2018 at 01:27 PM.
04-25-2018 at 01:27 PM.
Quote from Iaaaiws :
Notice I never said they had to. Hence the reference to being even a fraction as successful.



Are you suggesting that most people end up in a job that represents the maximum potential that they have? I find that laughable.

Do you believe that most people put their maximum effort into their current job and just don't have the capacity or the opportunity to improve their position?

I think most people settle into a career that matches their drive, not their potential.
Drive, potential and success aren't mutually exclusive.

Of course everyone doesn't end up in a job that represents their maximum potential.

I believe that the packing people who are the "poor Amazon workers" might not have the potential to do a lot more. You don't see many people who have the potential to be a working as .

It's not just about drive. Or just about potential. A person could have very high potential and low drive, could still make it out OK. But a person with a high drive and low potential, ain't getting very far.
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04-25-2018 at 02:34 PM.
04-25-2018 at 02:34 PM.
Bezos is just the target de jour. The same kind of thing has been said in the past of various Waltons, Bob Iger, Steve Jobs, and pretty much any other CEO/president of a really successful company that employs or contracts low-skill workers.

Of course, there does seem to be an issue with how Amazon treats some of its workers, but trying to make that point by reverting to base classicism is overly simplistic at best.
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04-25-2018 at 07:20 PM.
04-25-2018 at 07:20 PM.
Don't get me wrong. I admire that the guy built the company from a small venture in his garage to a multi billion dollar company.

It's just the boot prints his company is leaving on all the little people in his employ through bullshit quotas that don't earn them a nickel more in money for hustling their ass to keep up and hiring most of those employees through temporary agencies. At least Walmart brings on people straight company, even if they do shady shit like Bezos and crew to keep from paying benefits.

Stuff like practically frisking warehouse workers on the way out AFTER they're off the clock, not fixing the stifling warehouse conditions that're causing the workers to pass out and other things I'm sure we haven't heard about yet are just the icing on the rotten cake that Amazon is feeding to all the gullible people who think that his 'deals' are actually ones from his company directly when most times they're just matching somebody else.
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04-30-2018 at 06:25 AM.
04-30-2018 at 06:25 AM.
If I were him I sure as sh!t wouldn't. I would view them as replaceable/expendable cogs in my machine.
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05-06-2018 at 07:04 AM.
05-06-2018 at 07:04 AM.
Quote from Iaaaiws :
I wonder how many of those "poor Amazon workers" will ever push themselves to be even a fraction as successful as Bezos?
Any worker is entitled to breaks long enough to walk to a bathroom without resorting to peeing in a bottle no matter how much you push yourselves compared to the great Bezos. This is basic human rights and important for public health.
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05-06-2018 at 10:55 AM.
05-06-2018 at 10:55 AM.
i wouldn't, those damn idiots keep screwing up on all my orders
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05-06-2018 at 02:44 PM.
05-06-2018 at 02:44 PM.
Quote from SnakePlisken :
i wouldn't, those damn idiots keep screwing up on all my orders
you should blame amazon's computer. Those Amazon wh poor people that have to scan all the items when they prepare customers order.
If the computer says it's the right item, wh workers put it in the box.
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