Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


1 posted on 10/14/2022 9:28:25 PM PDT by fluorescence
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]


To: fluorescence

The response should be that that location is being closed. And, there should be a sign adjacent to it stating, This Space For Rent.
No business should be subject to Blackmail by Leftists in Leftist states with the outrageous costs of living voted for by idiots who then demand that a business compensate them for their idiotic political policies.
But, Bezos himself is a Leftist so who knows what he will do.


2 posted on 10/14/2022 9:53:17 PM PDT by ocrp1982
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: fluorescence

what’s the basepay???


3 posted on 10/14/2022 9:55:33 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: fluorescence

Wage-price spiral in action. Say Amazon raises the wages — then Amazon raises prices to pass on the increased labor cost — then the employees want more money — then the prices go up again — then . . . .


5 posted on 10/14/2022 10:08:47 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." — M. O'Neal, USMC)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: fluorescence
I'd fire them all, and give them a McDonalds gift card for severance pay. "Would you like fries with that?"

7 posted on 10/14/2022 10:15:54 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: fluorescence
Amazon has a huge low skill blue collar work force.

Ten years ago, Jeff Bezos planned to restrain labor costs by steadily investing in automation.

The cost, complexity, and develop time for automation turned out to be much higher than anyone imagined.

Jeff Bezos resigned as CEO and appointed himself Executive Chairman of Amazon about one year ago.

I think Bezos clearly saw there was no way he could keep the lid on labor unrest anymore, so he dumped 100% of the responsibility onto a new CEO.

8 posted on 10/14/2022 10:46:46 PM PDT by zeestephen
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: fluorescence
retaliation in response to their demands for better, safer jobs and a $5 hourly pay raise.

The reason the work is not "safer" can be answered because, as the last line of the fund raising ads asking for even more money to support PBS says "people just like you."

The people who rob the workers during deliveries are not the decent citizens who look like Judge Smails.

Some punk stole one of my Amazon packages. When they found out it was not worth anything to sell to buy drugs they threw the contents into the dumpster as I saw later in the afternoon. I should order things easier to pawn, I guess.

Porch pirates are not people just like me.

11 posted on 10/15/2022 12:06:27 AM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: fluorescence

Bezos is a multi-billionaire liberal. Why doesn’t he give workers anything they want?


14 posted on 10/15/2022 1:37:13 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (Remember the 2020 backstabbers. No more RINOs ever!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: fluorescence

15 posted on 10/15/2022 2:12:20 AM PDT by LibWhacker
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: fluorescence

Couldn’t happen to a better company. /s


16 posted on 10/15/2022 3:31:16 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: fluorescence

Easier to shut down the distribution site.


18 posted on 10/15/2022 4:30:42 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: fluorescence
Let it crash.

Let it all crash. Give them what they want and when that’s not enough, give them more and so on and so forth. Its inevitable.
19 posted on 10/15/2022 4:56:19 AM PDT by The Louiswu (If your child requires validation from Chuck E. Cheese you have failed as a parent. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: fluorescence

I wonder what a five dollar per hour raise would actually cost Amazon? What are the real numbers?


20 posted on 10/15/2022 5:04:05 AM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: fluorescence

Smarter negotiators would have noticed that Amazon has been scaling back operations and closing fulfillment centers all over the Country, while putting up a few new ones at the same time...


23 posted on 10/15/2022 5:47:34 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: fluorescence

YOU want a $5 RAISE?

Get an education & perform a job WELL that pays more.


25 posted on 10/15/2022 7:38:05 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: fluorescence

KSBD - built on and around the former Norton Air Force Base.

San Bernardino and surrounding Indland Empire towns and cities have become major hosts to shipping and distribution hubs. KSBD itself is only a few miles from either the major east/west bound Interestate 10 and the north/south bound Interstate 15 but - to the good - removed from the higher traffic density of Los Angeles/Long Beach area. What does not arrive/leave the KSBD facilities by air comes/gets there by trucks.

What is hard to figure is how the city of San Bernardino touted the remake of Norton Air Force Base into a civilian transportation hub - which it has become - San Bernardino itself has no way near moved up economically, inspite of the growth of KSBD. San Bernardino has lagged in population growth, growing below the county average in the last twenty years, while growth in towns west and north of it (and south of it in Riversde County) have grown more. The same has been true for real estate values. Its like in spite of itself, San Bernardino never got its act together after Norton AFB closed.


28 posted on 10/15/2022 11:44:18 AM PDT by Wuli (ur)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: fluorescence

And they’ll vote Democrat, who will create inflation, so they’ll demand another raise, and then they’ll vote Democrat, who will...


29 posted on 10/15/2022 11:46:27 AM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson