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DC should just let Amazon run the city government as Amazon sees fit. I wouldn’t mind living in an Amazon company town, I bet they’d shape things up around here.

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Yeah, high-ish salaries. Everyone works until 10pm. Get off work and get drunk. Complain about how Amazon took away your life and cost you your marriage, but hey they offer free marriage counseling now as a result (true story).

Rinse and repeat.

That's what I see around SLU.

Amazon is incredibly efficient, and that's good. But please don't let them take over a city with their work life culture.

Sounds like Hong Kong.

Hong Kong IMO is 100x more fun than Seattle. Better food, better transit system, better shopping, better everything but air quality IMO.

>Yeah, high-ish salaries

Judging from the conditions in their warehouses, I doubt this would be true for all the other labor needed to run the city...

> That's what I see around SLU.

To be fair that is Amazon US. Amazon where I work is so far divorced from all the famous crazy US practices that it seems like a different company.

If anyone wants Amazon to take over any sort of public space they should come experience the local vitriol towards all things Amazon here in Seattle.

I was interviewing at AWS just last year and one of the interviewers(in a Virginia/remote work setup) went so far as to admit he doesn't wear any amazon branded shirts or swag when he is in town.

That's not Amazon's fault. That's the rage of the incompetent lashing out at the most convenient target rather than focusing on bettering their own situation. And yeah, Amholes are a thing, just stay away from the Amholes (hell I once punched one after he intentionally shoved me and the way he backed down when he realized I was ready to beat him to a pulp was priceless), but I don't personally buy into the current agenda of punishing nerds for being nerds that seems to be in vogue these days.

In this age, if a spouse dumps you for overworking to secure the future in these increasingly uncertain times, they probably weren't a keeper anyway. There's a lot of magical thinking going around, and I'm not defending Amazon's culture here, but having gone through a divorce for exactly the above reasons, yeah, we were both better off in the long run instead of trying to reconcile our divergent belief systems (and these days we're friends).

Congress doesn't even let DC run itself as it sees fit.

If it’s between DC cultural malaise vs amazon quasi efficiency, I’m taking DC all day.

I guess there must have been at least a couple people who thought living in and working for Pullman was just great.

Put under-performers on an improvement plan and then lay them off from the town?

probably a private prison for those that took one too many bio breaks.

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