Posted on 04/05/2019 5:12:53 PM PDT by dennisw
Amazon plans to relocate its entire Seattle-based worldwide operations team to Bellevue, Wash., by 2023, adding thousands of employees to its new campus just across Lake Washington, according to an internal email obtained by GeekWire.
Moving a large and critical team away from Amazon’s Seattle headquarters is a significant relocation of employees on its own, but it’s also a weighty symbolic gesture — the clearest sign yet that the tech giant is cooling on its hometown while doubling down on a neighboring city.
Sources familiar with the plans said several thousand employees will be moving to Bellevue in the years ahead. Amazon confirmed the authenticity of the email obtained by GeekWire.
Worldwide operations is one of the most critical teams at Amazon, the arm responsible for getting packages to customers’ doors. It oversees more than 175 operating fulfillment centers around the world and the 250,000 employees who work there. The team also manages Amazon’s thousands of delivery truck trailers and its fleet of 40 airplanes. New logistics initiatives, like Amazon’s “Delivery Service Partners” program, also fall under the worldwide operations purview.
Amazon will start moving employees to Bellevue this month and will finish the migration by 2023. The company currently has 700 employees in Bellevue and more than 45,000 at its Seattle headquarters.
It would take some time for Amazon’s Bellevue team to grow to a size that rivals Seattle, but moving the worldwide operations team is a big step in that direction. The migration adds weight to the theory that Amazon is shifting its focus to Bellevue and other cities across the country amid ongoing tensions between the tech giant and its longtime hometown.
Why would Amazon move one of its most essential teams out of the company’s Seattle headquarters? Amazon hasn’t yet commented publicly, but there are a few possible reasons.
That animosity came to a head last year, when Seattle officials passed a tax on big businesses, like Amazon, to fund affordable housing, a pressing issue in the region. The business community balked at the tax, leading the city to repeal it less than a month later. The fight over the so-called “head tax” became emblematic of Amazon’s strained relationship with Seattle. EXCERPT
I could get rid of the “homelessness” problem in under two years and do it cheaply. Buy the Seattle PD 50 drug sniffing dogs and hire 100 extra beat cops. Send them out with the dogs in teams through every tent encampment and every corner of the city where the bums hang out and confiscate every bit of heroine, meth, coke and open containers of alcohol they can find. Don’t even bother arresting them, just relentlessly take away their junk. In a short while they’ll all leave. The “homeless” have flocked to Seattle because they don’t like following rules and no one here wants to make them follow any.
The problem with many Asians is that they vote Democrat, which I find mystifying.
We have got close friends who live on the other side of Aurora Ave from Green Lake. It is not that great of a neighborhood. Their house is around 1500 sq. ft. on a small lot with an unimproved basement and a carport. Their longtime neighbors all sold in the last few years each getting around $1,000,000 for their houses. The “zestmate” on their house is still around $980,000.
Their neighborhood is infested with homeless bums that wander from Green Lake. They go into their neighborhood and swipe anything that they can get their hands on, and hang out in their carport. They are both in their late 70s. The police do not respond when they call about the bums. They have to try and chase the criminals off themselves with limited success.
I told them to sell and get the heck out of there; the husband really wants to but his wife wants to stick it out and ride it all the way down.
The only reason they become “socialists” is so the media won’t trash them. The American media is now almost completely comprised of low-IQ, ironically low-information, indoctrinated trolls dedicated to destroying anyone who doesn’t pay homage to the “agenda” that they’ve been fed by their ‘60s and ‘70s-era hippie teachers since they were in kindergarten.
The massive national problem no one talks about is how the liberals in the ‘70s and ‘80s worked very hard to get the country’s mental institutions shut down for “humanitarian” reasons. What we see on our streets everywhere now is a direct result of that.
“They go into their neighborhood and swipe anything that they can get their hands on, and hang out in their carport. They are in their late 70s.”
Bums in their late 70s. Wow.
The people who live there are in their late 70s, not the bums.
Some people just can’t take a joke.
Asian Indians are the largest ethnic group in Bellevue - followed by Filipinos (mostly blue collar), Chinese (many wealthy expatriates trying to move their money to America or Canada), and the largest group of Russian immigrants (mostly blue collar) outside of New York City.
The education level is always suspect. More than half of Asian Indians went to Indian universities, almost none of which are accredited by USA corporations.
They get their H-1B visas in America by working for India-based outsourcing firms like Infosys.
The most important objection I have to massive LEGAL immigration is that most of the folks from the Third World vote All Left...All the Time!
The most compelling statistic I have ever seen was that Asian-Indians, the “best educated” ethnic group in America, voted 80% to reelect Barack Obama.
People who think like that are politically unreachable.
Funny, but I worked for 25 years in the urban jungle South of Seattle. We had problems with “homeless people” a decade or two before Seattle's problem exploded because of their liberal policies. And actually we did have bums in their 70s.
We had one guy we called the “professor” because he actually had been a professor before he retired and started having psych problems. He began living on the streets despite having a good pension. He rode a bicycle around with all of his possessions. He didn't cause any problems and he spent most of his time waving some type of anti-nuclear sign that he had made and handing out fliers that he had printed up. When he wasn't doing that he hung out at local fast food places. He didn't cause problems but he never took baths and they would get tired of his terrible odor.
The Jack in the Box had been putting up with him for months but they finally told him he wasn't welcome there anymore, because he was disturbing other customers. No one saw him for a few days and then someone found him unconscious under an overpass. The guys on another shift responded to him. Even though he had several layers of clothes on, he had gotten wet and he was very cold. When they were taking off his clothes to get him into the ambulance they found $40,000 cash hidden in his clothing. He never regained consciousness. When someone has hypothermia, you have to be very careful not to move them around very much because when the cold blood in their extremities starts flowing around their body again it often causes an arrhythmia that cannot be corrected.
So this guy retired in his 60s and lived on the streets for around ten years. People called us and the police because they were worried about him, but unfortunately he was able to answer the questions that are suppose to determine if he is competent to make his own decisions. He typically refused transport to the hospital where they sometimes have the ability to hold them for a few days. I think that they did keep him for awhile on a few occasions, but they always ended up letting him out after awhile.
Good stories, I lived in the U-District ‘75-‘76 and ‘79-‘82 but remember a mostly (almost totally) peaceful experience with few cultural, economic, or criminal problems evident in that somewhat sheltered area (I’m sure the tube has changed things). The biggest “spectator event” I remember was a young woman walking topless around Green Lake.
But serious non-innocence was creeping in. The twin demons of abortion worship and porno mainstreaming were starting to gain hold, as was destructive liberalism in general.
The next big thing for liberals is the $40 hr minimum wage ...
Advertising free stuff helps and no drug arrests policy goes even further toward attracting scum to fill the once beautiful city; now the difference between it an a garbage dump is just a quibble away.
Related: “Seattle Is Dying” (KOMO-TV documentary) thread
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3739087/posts
I’ve eaten at that Blue Sushi. Great food!
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“Wyoming might be nice... if they would have you.”
General Dynamics bought a California company. They only wanted the contracts and closed the facility. Because of the purchase agreement, GD owed a year’s pay to anybody who didn’t take a move package to another GD facility. There would be a reduction in pay to local standards. The HR manager told me that across the board, despite this being a very tough year for employees to get work, whites and Asians took the year’s pay and left. As far as he knew, all the Mexican born workers, now citizens, took the move and pay reduction. The issue, he thought, was how California’s whites and Asians were more concerned with the cool California lifestyle than anything else.
That was born out when another company I worked for hired a California worker in Tallahassee. He was desperate as it was a tough job market. He never stopped looking for another job in California and moved back within a year. (He also wore a leather bomber jacket ($500. I asked.) even when it was 105 degrees and 100% humidity. Cool was far more important to him than being comfortable.)
My point is, while there are thousands of really nice places to live in the US, a lot of people are into the California “lifestyle.” Wyoming doesn’t have it. Although, if that was where you were raised, the California scene would likely turn your stomach.
My thoughts too - a liberal entity that espouses liberalism finds a liberal city untenable to do business from....can’t make this crap up and keep a straight face...
I suspect many of these elites are simply creating high-cost compounds when they drive up costs; look at the “congestion pricing” in lower Manhattan (in a liberal city). Eventually all the dregs will be north of that invisible line, and us little people will rarely venture there.
I worked at Amazon downtown - the commute was horrible partly because of weirdos on the bus. If Amazon moved to Bellevue it would be a lot better for someone like me although the traffic in Bellevue would be even worse.
One thing about Amazon was that the pay was good and there are a lot of smart people they’ve gathered from all over the US.
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