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All I can think about while reading this is that it's so ironic that Bezos was making this speech, given the press on some of its abhorrent working conditions.

• venantius 12y ago
  This was pointed out pretty early on when I was thinking about this piece, but I don't necessarily think it makes what he says invalid, even if he doesn't practice it himself.
• pjwal 12y ago
  It's difficult to give any credence to those obvious agenda bent articles rife with unsubstantiated claims. The first author makes a stink of the fact (and mentions no less than three times) that one is fired if they are late the first week no matter the circumstance. Oh, the travesty. But then she even details the performance point system they use in which one is marked down 1.5 points for not SHOWING UP to work. And it requires 6 to fire you. You can actually just not show up 3 days to work and not get fired. Incredible. I mean really, she paraphrases a conversation she just happen to have with a woman in her late 50s about the tragedy of having to be at work at 5am the first day. The second author's statements are full of innuendos such as "if someone talks during work hours, the rest are expected to shun them." No claim that this is written policy of course of which he could not back up. No, the only explanation being, "it's a subtle thing because they ask you to "report possible anomalies to your superiors." The horrors of capitalism. Guess what? Working at a warehouse sucks, but after fully reading both the above articles it actually doesn't seem as bad as I thought.