$197.8 billion

[Inchy]

Amazon founder Jeff Bozos is worth that much.




And still timing sh*t breaks at his warehouses

[duncandisorderly]

Small change next to Mansa Musa.

[cricketfieldclarets]

Amazon founder Jeff Bozos is worth that much.




And still timing sh*t breaks at his warehouses

Everyone ive spoke to who works there says how brilliant it is.

[FactualFrank]

His workers are pretty much slaves. Comes across as a Twunt of a person.

[BenWickes]

Nobody for Turf Moor becoming 'Amazon Prime Stadium'? Or moving to a new 35,000 stadium called 'The Prime Stadium' on the outskirts of Borehamwood? Getting the season ticket, Burnley mug and fridge magnet delivered in three two foot boxes on three separate days chucked in next doors hedge? Free Jeff Bezos book 'How I made my billions by selling cheap tat in oversized boxes'.

No takers?

[ClaretAndJew]

No one needs that much money.

[JohnMac]

Based on my customer experience I have never had anything bad to say about Amazon since signing with their Prime and Kindle Unlimited services.

[CombatClaret]

Or one and a half Brexits.

[DCWat]

Amazon founder Jeff Bozos is worth that much.




And still timing sh*t breaks at his warehouses

If you worked at Amazon and a colleague of yours was taking an hour a day for comfort breaks, whilst you’re sticking rigidly to your set break times (and using this time for comfort breaks), you’d no doubt be complaining.

Monitoring time is commonplace across many industries and pretty damn sensible considering so many take the **** out of the time that they are paid for.

[TheFamilyCat]

Amazon founder Jeff Bozos is worth that much.




And still timing sh*t breaks at his warehouses

You don't stay rich by letting folk take a twenty minute turd.

[Burnley1989]

I only know two people that have worked there and they loved it, admittedly the didn’t work on the shop floor. A lot of manufacturing companies make workers clock out when leaving the shop floor so it’s timed, some companies monitor spindle run time to ensure there’s no machine down time etc.

When I worked on the shop floor it used to infuriate me when the same person went for a 30 minute toilet break at the same time every single day, straight after his 20 minute break, I was glad to see the back off him when he left

[Spiral]

You don't stay rich by letting folk take a twenty minute turd.

Nah, you stay rich by using your massive wealth built up from web service (server farms) and entertainment subscriptions to sell products online at a loss in order to run smaller retailers out of business and establish your monopoly.

[AfloatinClaret]

No one needs that much money.

Unless they want to buy Tarkowski.

[conyoviejo]

He still has to wipe his Arse like the rest of us..albeit on $100 bills .

[bfcjg]

I couldn't sleep at night with that amount of cash knowing children were going to bed if they had one hungry and folk dieing who couldn't afford basic medicine.

[Spiral]

I couldn't sleep at night with that amount of cash knowing children were going to bed if they had one hungry and folk dieing who couldn't afford basic medicine.

In fairness it's not like Bezos (who I have no love for) could just go and spend all that. He'd need to liquidate all his assets if he wanted to end world hunger blah blah. But like a few other billionaires with their heads in the clouds and no frame of reference from which to understand a normal, typical human existence, his idea of humanitarianism and leaving something to posterity seems to be advancing space travel (honestly), rather than doing anything to actually help poor folks. It's his money, he can spend it how he likes. Doesn't change the fact he's milking countries dry with his tax arrangements and aspiration to monopoly. Praise be to the philanthropists and whatnot, they devote a lot of their resources to helping out the poor and needy, and some of them even do it without the motive being to advance their brand! But the same can be said for Pablo Escobar.

[Zlatan]

His workers are pretty much slaves. Comes across as a Twunt of a person.

To be fair, if you get up everyday and go to a place of work and moan about it you could class yourself as a slave.

I’ve always tried to instil in my children that the best jobs are the ones you love doing whatever that may be.

[FactualFrank]

To be fair, if you get up everyday and go to a place of work and moan about it you could class yourself as a slave.

I'm referring to the job and pay. I've watched a few documentaries with hidden video footage and it looked like slave labour. And the delivery drivers are supposedly very poorly paid as well.

My parcels normally get to me in one piece and next day with Prime, but the working conditions look crap on the programmes I've seen about it.

[cricketfieldclarets]

I'm referring to the job and pay. I've watched a few documentaries with hidden video footage and it looked like slave labour. And the delivery drivers are supposedly very poorly paid as well.

My parcels normally get to me in one piece and next day with Prime, but the working conditions look crap on the programmes I've seen about it.

Can’t be that bad.

As above the people who I know who work there love it. As it seems do most. Very highly reviewed on Glassdoor. In fact number one.

Obviously some people won’t like it. You can’t please em all.

[jrgbfc]

I've never needed to use them, would rather support a small/local business that actually needs the custom and pays their share of tax.

[Paul Waine]

Can’t be that bad.

As above the people who I know who work there love it. As it seems do most. Very highly reviewed on Glassdoor. In fact number one.

Obviously some people won’t like it. You can’t please em all.

I'd guess that these Amazon jobs are IT, marketing/ad sales and similar smart, London office based roles - and not the "delivery fulfilment packing and shipping" roles in their distribution centres. Amazon has opened a very smart UK headquarters opposite Kings Cross Station (I think).

[cricketfieldclarets]

I'd guess that these Amazon jobs are IT, marketing/ad sales and similar smart, London office based roles - and not the "delivery fulfilment packing and shipping" roles in their distribution centres. Amazon has opened a very smart UK headquarters opposite Kings Cross Station (I think).

There’s 47,000 reviews. So invariably will be a mixture of the two.

As above. Some will be happy. Some won’t. It’s not unique to amazon.

[tiger76]

Apple first US company to be valued at $2tnhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53840471

I know it's only on paper, but I can't imagine a single company being worth more than many nations.

The big winners during the CV crisis are the tech companies.

[Spiral]

At its height the Dutch East India Company was valued at about $7.8tn in today's money. Can't really be called market capitalism at that stage. It's oligopoly.

[dsr]

His workers are pretty much slaves. Comes across as a Twunt of a person.

I never actually realised that all the "black lives matter" is a protest against black people in the past being paid only for the hours they work and being told that if they left they wouldn't get paid at all, they would have to collect dole money.

I thought slavery was more a case of being the legal property of someone who had the right to separate you from your family, sell you to who he wished, or even kill you at a whim. Have I been misinformed?

[ElectroClaret]

And still timing sh*t breaks at his warehouses

That's why he's worth $197.8 billion.

Sh1t breaks aren't worth sh1t.

[Spiral]

That's why he's worth $197.8 billion.

No it's not. Not directly, anyway. Making your workforce hold in a pi$$ for too long to be considered reasonable doesn't increase productivity to such a degree that Amazon is able to dominate its market, but what it does do is send a message to the stock market that Amazon is willing to value its productivity over its workforce to a degree much more ruthless than its (rapidly dwindling) competition. The health of a worker's bladder is a small part of the price paid for that stock price. If Amazon were to announce the institution of a more tolerable bathroom break policy for its workforce, its share price would decrease because the market is inherently sociopathic.

[ElectroClaret]

Spiral....do you realise you've just backed up (admittedly in a roundabout way) what I typed?

Yes, the share price would decrease if better and more agreeable lavatorial practices were adopted.
Which is why they ain't gonna be anytime soon.

Which will keep his comparative worth up.

QED

[Spiral]

Spiral....do you realise you've just backed up (admittedly in a roundabout way) what I typed?

Yes, the share price would decrease if better and more agreeable lavatorial practices were adopted.
Which is why they ain't gonna be anytime soon.

Which will keep his comparative worth up.

QED

Hmmm, reading it back, leaning in with 'No it's not' sounds way more argumentative than I ever intended it to be. I'm sorry if it came across that way! Pi$$ policy does in-part inform Amazon's value, but ultimately Bezos' commerce operation - which I read somewhere comprises about 60% of his business - runs at a loss. It's Prime, adverts and web services that make all the money, and the commerce operation is at this point a means to establish monopoly. Otherwise you'd make it profitable or cut it loose.

[Bfcboyo]

You haven't seen our Harry Garlicks vault under the pitch its like fort knox apparently.

Makes this look like school dinner money. Dyche found out about it before the Man City away game.