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Part Two: Jeff Bezos and the Birth of Amazon

Behind the Bastards

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The Amazon Principles - You Have to Be Honest

In two thousand 13, amazon hired elizabeth willett, a former army captain who'd served in a rack. She arranged with her boss to come to work earlier and leave earlier so that she could pick up her baby,. Her colleagues thought she was skipping work because she was leaving early, and they didn't know she was coming in early. And they informed on her to the boss; he then attacked her for not doing her work. This is kind of emblematic of a dark, trinded amazon, which is that a lot of these, these 14 principles, and this system of co worker evaluations, wind up being used uncommonly, often to attack specific groups of

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