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Just to put it into perspective, Amazon has 132,600 employees. So if a full 25% of Amazon employees decided to be company men/women, that alone would account f

Just to put it into perspective, Amazon has 132,600 employees. So if a full 25% of Amazon employees decided to be company men/women, that alone would account for all their sales.

knodi123 12y ago
does that include the poorly paid peons working themselves to death in the warehouses that you're not allowed to even bring a smartphone into?
- g8gggu89 12y ago
  Can you cite this? Or is this just drivel?
  - rurounijones 12y ago
    http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-free-online-shipping-warehouses-labor http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-f... http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/16/amazon-strikers-take-their-fight-to-seattle/ http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/16/amazon-strikers-tak... Are the two cases that come to mind. (First link may not be Amazon, but appears to be representative of conditions in warehouses for the pickers and it links to plenty of other sources that ARE amazon)
  - matrixagent 12y ago
    This issue is so universally known by now that it's almost insulting for you to even question it as "drivel". How can you be not aware of these issues? http://www.businessinsider.com/brutal-conditions-in-amazons-warehouses-2013-8 http://www.businessinsider.com/brutal-conditions-in-amazons-... http://www.salon.com/2014/02/23/worse_than_wal_mart_amazons_sick_brutality_and_secret_history_of_ruthlessly_intimidating_workers/ http://www.salon.com/2014/02/23/worse_than_wal_mart_amazons_... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/07/amazon-warehouse-workers-lunch-breaks_n_5283329.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/07/amazon-warehouse-wo... http://recode.net/2014/06/30/amazon-was-a-prison-says-former-worker/ http://recode.net/2014/06/30/amazon-was-a-prison-says-former... http://www.businessinsider.com/brutal-conditions-in-amazons-warehouses-2013-8 http://www.businessinsider.com/brutal-conditions-in-amazons-...
    - madeofpalk 12y ago
      http://xkcd.com/1053/ http://xkcd.com/1053/
      - pessimizer 12y ago
        You might expect someone to google amazon + warehouse before accusing people of talking "drivel," though.
        g8gggu89 12y ago
        One might expect you to be able to differentiate between a question and an accusation.
        pessimizer 12y ago
        I'm accusing you of asking before googling.
  - 72deluxe 12y ago
    Citation: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/01/week-amazon-insider-feature-treatment-employees-work http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/01/week-amazo...
serve_yay 12y ago
Hmm, is that like saying Apple has XXX,000 employees because of their retail stores? (Technically true, which is actually not the best kind of true?)
- 72deluxe 12y ago
  Yes. They have that many employees. I am not sure that the people running around Amazon's warehouses and doing marathon distances every day would be happy to buy the phone, however. But they do still count as employees.
ntkachov 12y ago
Only about 11,000 on campus though. I'm sure most of their employees couldn't afford a fire phone.

Just to put it into perspective, Amazon has 132,600 employees. So if a full 25% of Amazon employees decided to be company men/women, that alone would account for all their sales.

knodi123 12y ago

does that include the poorly paid peons working themselves to death in the warehouses that you're not allowed to even bring a smartphone into?

g8gggu89 12y ago
Can you cite this? Or is this just drivel?
- rurounijones 12y ago
  http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-free-online-shipping-warehouses-labor http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-f... http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/16/amazon-strikers-take-their-fight-to-seattle/ http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/16/amazon-strikers-tak... Are the two cases that come to mind. (First link may not be Amazon, but appears to be representative of conditions in warehouses for the pickers and it links to plenty of other sources that ARE amazon)
- matrixagent 12y ago
  This issue is so universally known by now that it's almost insulting for you to even question it as "drivel". How can you be not aware of these issues? http://www.businessinsider.com/brutal-conditions-in-amazons-warehouses-2013-8 http://www.businessinsider.com/brutal-conditions-in-amazons-... http://www.salon.com/2014/02/23/worse_than_wal_mart_amazons_sick_brutality_and_secret_history_of_ruthlessly_intimidating_workers/ http://www.salon.com/2014/02/23/worse_than_wal_mart_amazons_... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/07/amazon-warehouse-workers-lunch-breaks_n_5283329.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/07/amazon-warehouse-wo... http://recode.net/2014/06/30/amazon-was-a-prison-says-former-worker/ http://recode.net/2014/06/30/amazon-was-a-prison-says-former... http://www.businessinsider.com/brutal-conditions-in-amazons-warehouses-2013-8 http://www.businessinsider.com/brutal-conditions-in-amazons-...
  - madeofpalk 12y ago
    http://xkcd.com/1053/ http://xkcd.com/1053/
    - pessimizer 12y ago
      You might expect someone to google amazon + warehouse before accusing people of talking "drivel," though.
      - g8gggu89 12y ago
        One might expect you to be able to differentiate between a question and an accusation.
        pessimizer 12y ago
        I'm accusing you of asking before googling.
- 72deluxe 12y ago
  Citation: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/01/week-amazon-insider-feature-treatment-employees-work http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/01/week-amazo...

serve_yay 12y ago

Hmm, is that like saying Apple has XXX,000 employees because of their retail stores? (Technically true, which is actually not the best kind of true?)

72deluxe 12y ago
Yes. They have that many employees. I am not sure that the people running around Amazon's warehouses and doing marathon distances every day would be happy to buy the phone, however. But they do still count as employees.

ntkachov 12y ago

Only about 11,000 on campus though. I'm sure most of their employees couldn't afford a fire phone.