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Rich Franco

1 Year Ago

Breaking News: Amazon Workers Strike On Black Friday!

ALL AROUND THE WORLD! Amazon workers are striking.....so Prime shipping, to say the least, might be slow.....

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11468699/Amazon-warehouse-workers-stage-global-Black-Friday-strike-40-countries.html

Rich

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Did you verify this with an actually reliable source by any chance?

 
 

STEVEN H WEBB

1 Year Ago

Susan - A Google search shows many news agencies are reporting this.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/black-friday-amazon-strikes-protests-30-countries/

 

Thanks Doug!

 

Rich Franco

1 Year Ago

Susan,

You're welcome....

Rich

 

STEVEN H WEBB

1 Year Ago

@Rich Franco - LOL!

 

Rich Franco

1 Year Ago

Steven.....LOL!
Rich

 

Peggy Collins

1 Year Ago

Rich, Susan, Doug, Steven...LOL!

I say good for them!

Meanwhile Jeff Bezos just donated $123 million to 40 charities and has vowed to give away most of his fortune.

 

Mike Savad

1 Year Ago

Apparently its a yearly tradition. All I know is, you won't find discounts on amazon unless you have prime, and even if you do its a few dollars off. Worse a lot of the products I was going going to get went up $3 or more right before the so called discount.

Bezo's donated money but at the same time, fired 10,000 people and it sounds like he killed the alexa project.


----Mike Savad

 

Rich Franco

1 Year Ago

Peggy,

Yes, they couldn't have picked a better day for them! And I think Bezos is watching the anger directed at Musk... and other BILLIONAIRES lately....

Rich

 

Western Exposure

1 Year Ago

Good for them. Since I've learned how they treat their workers I've been avoiding Amazon like the plague.

 

Rudi Prott

1 Year Ago

In Germany they strike often because of amazon's bad working conditions (under the worst in the country).

 

Peggy Collins

1 Year Ago

Rich, apparently Bezos started donating long before Musk's shenanigans. He has already donated $2.4 billion to charity in his lifetime.

 

David Dehner

1 Year Ago

Mike,

Bezos fired 10,000 people and killed the Alexa project.


Rudi,

In Germany they strike often because of amazon's bad working conditions (under the worst in the country).

Peggy,

Bezos donated $2.4 billion to charity in his lifetime.

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Mike Savad

1 Year Ago

Https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2022/11/17/amazon-is-laying-off-10000-workers-here-are-additional-tactics-tech-companies-use-to-quietly-cut-staff/#:~:text=Amazon%20announced%20in%20a%20blog,Alexa%20and%20ebook-reader%20Kindle.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/amazon-alexa-is-a-colossal-failure-on-pace-to-lose-10-billion-this-year/

I know I heard the thing about alexa some place, the post I put up in facebook vanished. But I know I read it.


----Mike Savad

 

J L Meadows

1 Year Ago

I hope Alexa's not going away! Since I've been sick, she's the only company I've had lol.

 

Mike Savad

1 Year Ago

You'll have to find a new device to spy on you or whisper creepy things at night.


----Mike Savad

 

Peggy Collins

1 Year Ago

Here you go, David...

"Forbes estimates that Bezos has donated more than $2.4 billion to charity in his lifetime. He committed a total of $10 billion to his own climate nonprofit, the Bezos Earth Fund, in 2020. As of November 2021, the fund had granted nearly $1 billion of that total."

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/16/jeff-bezos-will-give-away-most-of-his-fortune-why-its-a-big-deal.html#:~:text=Forbes%20estimates%20that%20Bezos%20has,%241%20billion%20of%20that%20total.

 

I don't know about anybody else, but I had two separate deliveries from Amazon today. Apparently delivery drivers around these parts are not striking. The shocking thing here is that they were both delivered, they were both delivered to MY house, and both orders were correct.

Absolutely anytime Rich.

 

Gary Whitton

1 Year Ago

I say good for them. I have prime, and I like Amazon, but I don't need my order delivered at 4am the next morning. Its just not important enough to make people work crazy long hours, especially during the holidays. I also generally stay away from Black Friday specials for the same reason. Especially in retail I just see companies taking more and more liberties with people's time, just to make a buck. And when I hear from people that they have to work mandatory overtime at Walmart on Thanksgiving or get fired. There is just something wrong with that. Some retailers have gotten the message and backed off, others have not. I would very much support legislation to put an end to some of this.

 

Mike Savad

1 Year Ago

4am is a weird time to get anything. It really makes no sense to get it that early. Could be raining or snowing. You may never know its there until you trip over it. Easy to steal, its dark out.

At least right now the amazon stuff is going to the right house. It seems it doesn't seem to matter if its sort of near the right house. Next door, across the street, just wherever. And you go to see who might have signed for it, and its like, left with owner or something.


----Mike Savad

 

J L Meadows

1 Year Ago

I buy all of my books from Amazon as digital versions. And I have an Amazon Kindle, which I like pretty much, although it's old.

As for Alexa, if it goes away, I'm sure that somebody will invent a replacement for it. I bet that somebody someday will invent a device you can have actual conversations with. And as long as it doesn't come with a creepy uncanny-valley humanoid face, I'm okay with that.

 

Lois Bryan

1 Year Ago

Amazon. Bah. They let anybody sell there … and some "anybodys" even steal my images, slap them onto pillows and what-not to sell. Who knows if the poor purchasers ever get anything back … much less what the quality might be if they do. Amazon can go to … well … a dark, hot place … with my blessings.

Now, that's not to say I don't support and sympathize with the legitimate workers and sellers. I do.

Edit … sorry. I don't usually say anything controversial. Clearly, I've had too much coffee.

 

Gary Whitton

1 Year Ago

Lois,

We definitely get it. There are things I absolutely hate about Amazon. And things I absolutely love. Ironically enough I don't sell on their platform because it seemed like such a pain in the butt, compared to a place like FAA, and I really don't need all the pressures they exert on sellers, when their are times things like delays are out of our control.

But Amazon gets a few things right. Like making it easy to find things, that can at times be a pain to find around town or in a retail store. I really wished grocery stories and places like Walmarts would make it as easy to locate things as Amazon makes it to find and purchase items off its website. Though I don't buy food off Amazon I probably would be tempted if the price is right, because I get tired of navigating random reorganizations by chains like Kroger and Meijer, or odd ball groupings of things like separating olive oil from the rest of the oils....and making people figure out "their logic". They lose a lot more business with this kind of nonsense than they realize, and its probably the biggest reason I shop Amazon for non-grocery items.

 

Rich Franco

1 Year Ago

Amazon is like the General Motors of yesteryear. Good and Bad, but eventually evolved, with union pressure into a better, workable corporation. Amazon will eventually have to cave to Union-type demands, or like some companies, surpass those demands and keep the Union out of it.

Chobani is a great example of management and the workforce working together and ALL benefiting! The story about that owner, Hamdi Ulukaya, is inspiring! Not becasue of any Union pressure, he gave his employees, 10% of his company! ALL BENEFITED!
"Ulukaya(Hamdi) has stated that higher wages for employees leads to greater corporate success."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamdi_Ulukaya

Rich

 

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