How do Amazon employees (or rather Blue Origin in this case I guess) feel about Amazon’s supposed frugality (no free food, lower salaries, few perks, etc) and hearing about Jeff Bezos spending 50 million in company money to film a useless commercial to spend more time with his sidehoe?
Probably the same way he should feel about me spending an insane amount on my tech gadgets.
I asked how employees feel, not jeff. Dont give a fuck how jeff feels cause clearly he doesnt give a shit
Point is he spent personal money so who cares.
What commercial? Kinda outta the loop..
Apparently he hired his side girl to work as a producer on a blue origin commercial and spent 50 mill in company money to do so but it was just a pretense to spend time with her
Frugality for you, not him.
Jeff B turned out to be a huge disappointment. Get rid of this dude. His time is up.
To everyone who’s saying its his personal money: yes i know he’s funding blue origin but my point is how do employees feel when he’s not willing to write a check to increase their pay and provide them with better perks but is willing to write a check of 50mill just to spend time with his girl
Employees get free bananas. If they act up and ask for more pay, they’ll get a meat banana.
It's his money. As an employee, I am not entitled to snatch a penny from him. He can't stop me from applying to any other company for better pay. My employment is based on free will.
Same happens in your company, you city, your state, your country. What do you feel?
50 million is Jeff being frugal.
Amazon frugality is BS, just like the flywheel Bezos copied from Walmart (Sam Walton’s “Productivity Loop”). Supposedly the door desks cost more than regular desks now.
I can tell you from experience that throwing a piece of 3/4" plywood across a couple sawhorses is a lot cheaper than a door, even back in the day when that story first got started.
Jeff Bezos is a douche bag. When I was there in amazon. Somebody asked him in all-hands meeting that why is he investing so much in buying buildings every where . Why don't amazon move to suburbs like Microsoft where it's cheaper for both company and employees. And guess what, what was his reply? That staying in city attracts talent. Really?? All this leadership principles are made by management to manipulate employees. He or amazon is not frugal at all, they are just very good in deceiving you. Another example being second HQ2 thing. How he deceived different states in giving him subsidy. It has set a very bad precedent for the country. Think what will happen if every company like G, Facebook start playing these games and ask for tax cuts before setting any office.
I hope you’re kidding. Because they all do. Apple in Austin $41m. Google in OH for a datacenter. 150m for FBs Utah datacenter. What would really get your goat is that all of these entities pay less than 1% of total revenue as taxes. Don’t believe me? Look it up. Sooo, less umbrage please.
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It's his personal money. He can do whatever he wants tf with it, duh. He isn't cheating on it's employees. People can chose to work, or not work at Amazon if they feel they are being underpaid.
Actually he used company money per my understanding
Ok, if it's really needed, he'll pull out that meagre 50 million out of his bigass 100+ billion dollar pocket and give it to the company.