Amazon, good or bad?

[Bailey Guns]

I just did a search using "firearm" and "guns" and several pages came up. I even found the Buffalo Creek Gun Club and the CMP.

[airborneranger]

I am anxiously awaiting to see where Amazon decides to open their new HQ building. Kansas City is also at the top of the list which works out for me. If any of you want to know what it is like to work in one of their fulfillment centers, just send me a PM and I can fill you in. I retired from the Army this summer and picked up a position as an operations manager in their new robotics sort facility (fulfillment center) in Kansas City.

The rumors of work load are 100% true. Employees work 4X10 hour days. The manager hours go longer (usually 13-14 hour days). We will start in the next few weeks with volunteer overtime and then it will morph into mandatory. We expect the associates to work. In our facility they get a paid 30 minute lunch and an additional unpaid 30 minute break. They are expected to be at their stations when not working. Believe it or not but our biggest problem is getting people to work.

As the ops manager (I have 5 area managers who work for me), I come in an hour prior to shift and stay anywhere from 1-2 hours past shift, making me day a 13-14 day. They are long, stressful days but as many of you have stated earlier they do pay well which is what attracts people to the company.

If the HQ get to CO, I may be looking to get out of the warehouse life and into the HQ rat race

[CS1983]

"...these dark Satanic Mills...", as Blake once wrote.

[Seamonkey]

An American company looking to expand HQ in America and hiring Americans.

Yes please!

[William]

Not being political, what is your recommendation for a good gun group?

My smile.amazon.com is set up for: Revolutionary War Veterans Association (appleseed). Prime just is to convenient for me to boycott amazon.

[buffalobo]

My smile.amazon.com is set up for: Revolutionary War Veterans Association (appleseed). Prime just is to convenient for me to boycott amazon.

+1 on RWVA.

+1 on post. Living rural where Wal-Mart is 30 miles and any other major retailers are 50 miles away, Prime pays for itself just in gas not burned.

If you're unarmed you are a victim

[Skip]

Based on the tax breaks others are offering, I think Denver is safe (for now).


http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-1...e-second-us-hq

New Jersey apparently 'wins' the prize for 'biggest tax cuts' after offering $7 billion in state and city tax credits, or roughly $140,000 per job promised by Amazon...which should be plenty to once again thrust Bezos to the top of the world's richest list. Per Reuters:

[snip]

Denver: Denver has a busy international airport and is surrounded by a highly educated workforce. It’s also home to a surge of millennials looking for high-tech and energy jobs in Colorado, and boasts an outdoorsy lifestyle that’s an easy fit for Amazon’s quality-of-life considerations. Colorado has also chosen eight sites that meet Amazon’s requirements for HQ2. Still, other cities are offering larger tax breaks than Denver.

Hard to wrap my brain around NJ's tax incentives that equal more than avg pay. NJ must have some high taxes to recover that per worker deficit.

[Rooskibar03]

Based on the tax breaks others are offering, I think Denver is safe (for now).


http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-1...e-second-us-hq




Hard to wrap my brain around NJ's tax incentives that equal more than avg pay. NJ must have some high taxes to recover that per worker deficit.

Someone correct me by NJ has some of the highest personal, income, sales, property taxes in the nation.

Also saw that rents in Denver would jump another 1.1% if Amazon came to town. That sounds light IMHO.

[Skip]

Someone correct me by NJ has some of the highest personal, income, sales, property taxes in the nation.

Also saw that rents in Denver would jump another 1.1% if Amazon came to town. That sounds light IMHO.

Very light.

If avg salaries are $100K/year it's going to push costs well above what our current median income ($62K I think) can afford.

And that $100K number is what I was talking about. A 100% tax rate doesn't recover the $140K incentive. There must be other taxes they would impose on Amazon to make up for it.

[Gman]

New Jersey is like a drug dealer. They'll get you hooked, but then you'll really pay later because they know there's a cost to leaving after the deal runs out.