Billionaire To Employee: ‘Give Me Everything You’ve Got’

After lurking in a fulfillment center parking lot until employees had finished their 12-hour shift, Amazon founder and executive chairman Jeff Bezos reportedly mugged one of his company’s warehouse workers at gunpoint Friday. “Just take out your wallet real slow and drop it into my hands—no sudden movements!” said Bezos, his face obscured behind a ski mask as he brandished a Colt pistol in the inventory handler’s face, shouting at him to quit crying and empty his pockets of any valuables. […]

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    1 year ago

    The everyday violence of slave-wage work at Amazon fulfillment centers would be Onion material if it wasn’t the depressing reality.