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Old 08-20-2015, 12:35 PM   #4081
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Anybody read the stuff about Amazon by the NY Times (published on Sunday)? The last paragraph just baffles me.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/te...workplace.html

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At Amazon, workers are encouraged to tear apart one another’s ideas in meetings, toil long and late (emails arrive past midnight, followed by text messages asking why they were not answered), and held to standards that the company boasts are “unreasonably high.” The internal phone directory instructs colleagues on how to send secret feedback to one another’s bosses. Employees say it is frequently used to sabotage others. (The tool offers sample texts, including this: “I felt concerned about his inflexibility and openly complaining about minor tasks.”)

Bo Olson...lasted less than two years in a book marketing role and said that his enduring image was watching people weep in the office, a sight other workers described as well. “You walk out of a conference room and you’ll see a grown man covering his face,” he said. “Nearly every person I worked with, I saw cry at their desk.”

In interviews, some said they thrived at Amazon precisely because it pushed them past what they thought were their limits. Many employees are motivated by “thinking big and knowing that we haven’t scratched the surface on what’s out there to invent,” said Elisabeth Rommel, a retail executive who was one of those permitted to speak.

Others who cycled in and out of the company said that what they learned in their brief stints helped their careers take off. And more than a few who fled said they later realized they had become addicted to Amazon’s way of working.

“A lot of people who work there feel this tension: It’s the greatest place I hate to work,” said John Rossman, a former executive there who published a book, “The Amazon Way.”
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Old 08-20-2015, 12:53 PM   #4082
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Not surprising. Business is cut throat. Some can survive and thrive, most get chewed up and spit out.

Not saying it's right or wrong. Well, morally I think it's wrong. But money talks, and Amazon is the biggest fish of them all.
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Old 08-20-2015, 12:59 PM   #4083
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I would rather know how the manual labor workers are treated.
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Old 08-20-2015, 02:27 PM   #4084
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Does anybody have any recommendations for a good external HDD? Looking at either 1TB or 2TB.

I have these two in my sights, but wasn't sure what else was out there:

http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expans...=operasport-20

http://www.amazon.com/Passport-Ultra...=operasport-20
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Old 08-20-2015, 02:31 PM   #4085
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Does anybody have any recommendations for a good external HDD? Looking at either 1TB or 2TB.

I have these two in my sights, but wasn't sure what else was out there:

http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expans...=operasport-20

http://www.amazon.com/Passport-Ultra...=operasport-20
I have a couple of the WD Passport drives. Haven't had any issues.
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Old 08-20-2015, 04:33 PM   #4086
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Same with wd, have 6 of them, zero issues

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Old 08-20-2015, 05:04 PM   #4087
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Does anybody have any recommendations for a good external HDD? Looking at either 1TB or 2TB.

I have these two in my sights, but wasn't sure what else was out there:

http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expans...=operasport-20

http://www.amazon.com/Passport-Ultra...=operasport-20

Have had a couple cheap *** Toshiba canvios (sp?) that work fantastic for my XB1.
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Old 08-20-2015, 06:24 PM   #4088
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Does anybody have any recommendations for a good external HDD? Looking at either 1TB or 2TB.

I have these two in my sights, but wasn't sure what else was out there:

http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expans...=operasport-20

http://www.amazon.com/Passport-Ultra...=operasport-20
My WD is still running strong for my PC. I have a 5TB Seagate for my Xbox that has worked well so far too.
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