Amazon.com, The Bodyguard

theodp writes "While the press is running Amazon's standard we-can't-make-our-CEO-accept-more-than-$81,840 line again this year, the e-tailer's recent SEC filing does disclose an interesting new compensation tidbit. On top of what it spends to provide security for its CEO at business facilities and during business travel, Amazon shells out an estimated $1.1 million a year to cover the cost of security arrangements for billionaire CEO Jeff Bezos. Holy Jack Welch, Batman - that's a lot of door desks!"

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Maybe they need Microsoft Protection Services

[BadAnalogyGuy]

Microsoft has a new utility called Microsoft Protection Services. It's where salesmen from Redmond visit client sites and make sure that a great shame like something getting broken accidentally or someone getting injured in an unexpected accident doesn't happen.

Maybe Amazon just saw the need for some protection.

he needs it.. duh

[Toba82]

Things we know:
1) A lot of people on slashdot hate patents.
2) Jeff Bezos loves patents.
3) A lot of people on slashdot hate Jeff Bezos.

4) A lot of people on slashdot are libertarians.
5) Libertarians approve of gun rights.
6) A lot of people on slashdot have guns.

And:
7) Profit!

Re:he needs it.. duh

[hbo]

..
3) A lot of people on slashdot hate Jeff Bezos.
..
6) A lot of people on slashdot have guns.

That's ridiculous! If you keep spreading rumors like that, I'm going to find out where you live, and pay a visit, along with Mr. Smith and Mr Wesson.

Oh.. wait..

Re:he needs it.. duh

[Gorshkov]

That's ridiculous! If you keep spreading rumors like that, I'm going to find out where you live, and pay a visit, along with Mr. Smith and Mr Wesson.

Freaking l00z3r.

A *real* geek would just hack into NSA or SAC and arrange for somebody to be accidently dropped on his head.

Not that I'd ever think about something like that - that's bad.......

Re:he needs it.. duh

[rethin]

Freaking l00z3r. A *real* geek would just hack into NSA or SAC and arrange for somebody to be accidently dropped on his head.

No a real geek would fill his house with popcorn. Then hack an orbiting space laser ...

Oh wait, that's a real genius

Re:Seems reasonable

[jdcook]

"Better than the $160,000/hour some ceos make"

That's just the sort of blinkered philistine pig-ignorance I've come to expect from you non-capitalistic garbage. I'll have you know that outgoing Exxon CEO, to whom you obliquely refer, was earning a mere $26,384.62/hour. ($686 million over 13 years, assuming 2000 working hours a year.) And I bet you pretend you'd be willing to handle the demanding tasks of a planet-raping CEO for half that. As if! It'll be a sad day for America when our CEOs are outsourced to India. Won't someone think of the billionaires?

Re:Of course we need...

[Rob T Firefly]

I don't think an aged Kevin Costner tenderly carrying Jeff Bezos away is quite the mental image I need today, thankyousomuch...

Re:Bill Gates Mother

[Anonymous Coward]

I guess the kidnapping went bad.

Re:Seems reasonable

[Ingolfke]

Or are the bad guys also only working 40 hour weeks?

Yeah, actually according to union policy we can only work 40 hours per week without recieving overtime compensation. Also if you work after hours we're to recieve an extra 50% on our normal hourly rate. Unfortunately for us this has created a real problem because most evil organizations prefer to use bad guys in Iraq, Pakistan, or other low cost locations around the world we're non-unionized bad guys will work for a promise of a harem of virgins in the after life. We just can't compete. So I'm not really surprised that Amazon is taking advantage of a bad situation.