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Amazon laying off hundreds of corporate employees in rare cutback
Seattle Times ^
| 02/12/2018
| Matt Day
Posted on 02/12/2018 9:36:13 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: G Larry
If you buy existing companies you deal with two problems:
FTC approval
Existing union contracts
Starting a new company from scratch avoids both.
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posted on
02/12/2018 11:32:47 AM PST
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discostu
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To: Vaduz
I’m sure they have CPAs. They bought over a company a month last year, that’s bound to give you extra people.
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02/12/2018 11:33:46 AM PST
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discostu
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To: Dr. Sivana
Building a billion dollar company on procrastination is a very scary reality. I don't know how Fred Smith sleeps?
Gotta give it to him though. Building value by enabling poor planning, lousy scheduling, time to produce inefficiencies, and capitalizing off of such bad habits sure has given him a good long run.
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posted on
02/12/2018 11:36:04 AM PST
by
blackdog
To: discostu
At what cost?
FTC has no legitimate objection to a non-transport company buying into the market.
It is NOT consolidation.
Union contracts can be renegotiated with new owners.
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posted on
02/12/2018 11:41:25 AM PST
by
G Larry
(There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
To: G Larry
Horizontal expansion is one the FTC gets involved in more and more. In the end they usually approve but the months of whining and hearings can be expensive.
Union contracts can be renegotiated but you’re better off not having them at all. Pissing contests with unions are only avoidable by not having unions.
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02/12/2018 11:48:20 AM PST
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discostu
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To: blackdog
Building value by enabling poor planning, lousy scheduling, time to produce inefficiencies, and capitalizing off of such bad habits sure has given him a good long run. ,
It's true. Back in the '90s I did a temp office job for GE in Bridgeport, and I was asked to FedEx overnight a STAPLER! GE had a deal where they only paid $4 or so for each package in those days due to volume or something. But really ... a STAPLER?
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02/12/2018 12:07:16 PM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics.)
To: G Larry
They are going to integrate all if their supply chains with such services. Food. Retail delivery etc. All under one roof
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posted on
02/12/2018 12:28:48 PM PST
by
Theoria
(I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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