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Amazon corporate offices are extremely cheap. Absolutely shitty coffee and enough snacks for 10 people in an office floor that sits 100. It's pretty much a fac

• microcolonel 7y ago
  > A live-able salary is the only perk of being an Amazon corporate employee. Yes, that is how employment works, and the compensation is better than livable for those who would make that elsewhere. After you are a toddler, and once you are rich, do you need permission to buy snacks?
  • michaelmrose 7y ago
    Spending token amounts and effort doing small things to make things nice is often taken as a sign that staff are valued. If work has shitty coffee I can of course bring my own but the kind of people that buy shitty coffee are often stingy in other ways that are more meaningful like raises. It might well be a good indication to look elsewhere.
    • microcolonel 7y ago
      If you have the luxury to think about that, you can choose not to work for Amazon in R&D. I know people who used to work for Amazon and left because they didn't like that aspect, but isn't that Amazon's problem more than anything? Or is it even a problem? Maybe Amazon deliberately puts on their best Ebenezer Scrooge to weed out people with too much taste and not enough nose-to-grindstone. You guys clearly think more about what messages the workplace is sending you than maybe Amazon wants their employees to. ;- )
      • soledades 7y ago
        Exactly, Amazon would prefer employees that don't actually think too much about the company.
    • vonmoltke 7y ago
      At least they have coffee. Some places don't even have that.