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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  3665 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Once each year, Amazon offers employees up to $5k to quit.

It's been on my list.

We started hearing radio ads for Amazon in Seattle about 1997. It was kind of weird. It was like "it's a bookstore that you can't browse. How's that going to work?" The answer, of course, was cut-throat pricing designed to annihilate all competition.