of course - being fired hurt - but
it was Jeff's company and he had the
right to do anything he darn well wanted
to. what really stung were the really
obvious signs that the CS department was
being separated from the company -
starting with moving us out of the Columbia
Building headquarters to Securities - then
moving corporate to Pac Med - all the while
praising CS at all-hands meetings for
"saving our butts" and "great work". when
the WashTech/Day Two people saw the
writing on the wall and started the union
movement in Seattle, CS management
relayed flat-out lies that "there were no plans
to close the Seattle CS centers".
Add us CS reps to the same graveyard of
lies that we share with some other peers -
i.e. PlanetAll, Junglee, Exchange.com
{bibliofind}, LiveBid, and probably Alexa sooner or later....
I don't think Jeff decieved investors though,
or prepared for a bubble bursting - (even though there was an Economist cover story on exactly that topic describing in detail why Amazon's share price was unsustainable). I
remember when management was
struggling internally with the question of
become profitable now versus continue to
expand in the optimal market environment.
I said in our quad meeting that I wanted to
work for an online bookstore, and not really
to sell camcorders.
Anyway - I hope our Daksh
replacements in Gurgaon aren't destroyed in a nuclear war.
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of course - being fired hurt - but it was Jeff's company and he had the right to do anything he darn well wanted to. what really stung were the really obvious signs that the CS department was being separated from the company - starting with moving us out of the Columbia Building headquarters to Securities - then moving corporate to Pac Med - all the while praising CS at all-hands meetings for "saving our butts" and "great work". when the WashTech/Day Two people saw the writing on the wall and started the union movement in Seattle, CS management relayed flat-out lies that "there were no plans to close the Seattle CS centers". Add us CS reps to the same graveyard of lies that we share with some other peers - i.e. PlanetAll, Junglee, Exchange.com {bibliofind}, LiveBid, and probably Alexa sooner or later.... I don't think Jeff decieved investors though, or prepared for a bubble bursting - (even though there was an Economist cover story on exactly that topic describing in detail why Amazon's share price was unsustainable). I remember when management was struggling internally with the question of become profitable now versus continue to expand in the optimal market environment. I said in our quad meeting that I wanted to work for an online bookstore, and not really to sell camcorders. Anyway - I hope our Daksh replacements in Gurgaon aren't destroyed in a nuclear war.