"Dagnabbit! When are businesses going to stop innovating! They oughta stand still and stay the same like to good old days!"
Posted on 01/27/2018 4:39:57 AM PST by C19fan
Who needs the Amazon rainforest when you can bring the rainforest to Amazon. The e-commerce giant is set to unveil its $4billion urban campus in downtown Seattle on Monday that features an innovative mix of office space and exotic plant life. The company's hard-working employees will be able to take a break from the daily grind by walking along stone pathways, observing mini-waterfalls, and enjoying the plant life from exotic locales in South America. The massive project includes three office buildings in the shape of spheres – the tallest of which is 90 feet tall and 130 feet in diameter, Bloomberg News reported.
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Now they can let all the homeless people camp out in there.
If I were an employee, I’d rather have a raise.
The Hoh rainforest is on the Olympic peninsula in Washington state. A good chunk of the Olympic peninsula has this ecosphere. Amazon could have built just a few miles away from Seattle and donated the money to charity.
The Pacific Northwest has temperate rainforests.
I wonder if they will continue to be as hard-working with such a distraction situated so close-by.
Sounds like Moody Gardens on Galveston Island.
Its is nice to be a monopoly.
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How is it a monopoly?
I remember back in the early days of FR, everyday Amazon was criticized for being nothing but a fly by night bookseller and Walmart was the bad guy for destroying small businesses.
Instead, many of them work in bad conditions. And Bezos counts his billions and plays with his newspaper.
If conditions affect safety and are going unaddressed, then OSHA isn’t doing its job.
If conditions don’t affect safety, are instead just lousy, employees are free to find other work.
This is either some kind of ego trip and/or tax thing.
Bet there were better ways to spend the money.
“nothing but a fly by night bookseller “
Now they are so big, they don’t need to fly anymore. They simply screw up orders and overcharge and still enjoy their spot in the market based on perception over reality.
The reality is Amazon rapes it’s sellers, and their shipping really isn’t that great.
And for everyone in the thread : Remember that Jeff Bezos does NOT WANT Amazon to make money. So he spends the money however he can to convert assets into liabilities, properties and charities.
I agree.
Google “Amazon warehouse conditions”.
If Bezos was a conservative and a Trump supporter, imagine the outcry.
At their fulfillment centers in North Texas, their evening shift runs from 6 PM to 5:30 AM. They say 4 days a work week, but you're required to work a fifth day.
And they have people flooding to their hiring centers every day. I tip my hat to those that can handle that kind of shift work.
I’ve heard the stories. Heck, a PA paper did an above-the-fold series a few years back that was an attention grabber. But there’s lousy, and there’s illegal. Which is it? Cuz if it’s the former, that’s between the parties involved.
I say “lousy”.
And my only point is that the company seems to get a pass in the MSM because of Bezos.
IOW, they’re over charging their customers.
Bezos can always be counted on to run Amazon at zero net profit. He must hate paying taxes!
How to keep the worker-drones happy.
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