Seattle Met Chooses Seattle Up and Coming Leaders Seattle Met is one of those glossy urban magazines one finds in hotel rooms and on the coffee tables of affluent friends. The Met is also an interesting magazine because it has reached out to one the few remaining political reporters in Seattle,[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Amazon’
November 2nd, 2014 - 9:23 am § in Uncategorized
Time for Jim to Go .. to Spokane?
Jim McDermott, will be reelected to Congress. That makes me sad. Jim is our local politician activist, showboat of the progressives , and Congressman. He still think she lives in Seattle .. a city dominated by unions, the blue class workers of his past. Jim’s mantra has been anti war, pr[...]
Amazon to offer covered dog park! … What a Perk!
Amazon Biodome – Seattle Check out the renderings for Amazon’s new headquarters in downtown Seattle. These remarkable “biodomes” will incorporate a cycle track, dog park and retail stores into Amazon’s buildings. The inside of these glass orbs will be a mixture of work [...]
October 23rd, 2014 - 9:11 pm § in Misc.
Amazon Stock Drops As Investors Run Out Of Patience With Bezos
Amazon’s stock fell nearly 11% in Nasdaq after-hours trading after the company reported a larger-than-expected loss for last quarter after the stock market closed Thursday, and even worse, issued weak forward sales guidance. When people looked at their nasdaq brokers in south africa, they imme[...]
October 14th, 2014 - 8:34 am § in America, The Ave Scene
Amazon Does Not Like Seattle?
Amazon opening second retail store in San Francisco Errrr … so Mr. Bezos seems to think Seatle is not a good place for a store? Having opened an Amazon retail store in Manhattan now he is setting up shop in San Francisco ! Wassup Jeff? You don’t like selling stuff to you[...]
March 29th, 2014 - 12:09 pm § in The Ave Scene
Podments Are a Bad Idea
As Amazon Spreads Podments in Seattle, New York already deals with podment neurosis: increased claustrophobia, domestic abuse, and alcoholism. (abridged and commented from NY Observer) Even though Mayor Michael Bloomberg has championed the micro-unit, some experts are concerned that living in 25[...]
March 26th, 2014 - 9:28 am § in America
Is Scrooge Driving Companies Out of Seattle?
The Seattle Times is kvetching* that our area may lose the corporate headquarters of T-mobile. The extremely creative T-Mobile, after its failed take over by AT&T came back fighting with new consumer friendly plans. These have meant that the Seattle based company is growing. Meanwhile Spr[...]
March 16th, 2014 - 1:21 pm § in The Ave Scene
Wolf of Wall Street: An Amazon Alternative?
We are waiting for Wolf of Wall Street to be a free show on Cable. Seems appropriate given the theme. Funny thing about that sort of movie. As fewer movies are made and as Comcast expands its empire, our choices of movies is becoming limited by what “they” want us to see. [...]
February 18th, 2014 - 4:03 am § in The Ave Scene
Amazon 3: Workers can not even get paid to eat?
Amazon doesn’t pay workers for every hour they work or for lunch break To make sure low-wage warehouse workers don’t steal any merchandise, Amazon makes them pass through security checkpoints. Here’s what one Nevada worker experienced: Whenever he clocked out after his 12-hour shift at an [...]
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