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Employees. where the ones, again, make the company it's money. they are also not sticking around and amazon for the long haul, which is planned. that turnover is a structural problem at amazon. it's by design, according to that same senior hr employee. jeff bezos from the beginning didn't want hourly workers that were gonna stick around for any amount of time. bezos saw a, quote, large disgruntled workforce as a threat. the amazon official told the times that amazon's data showed most employees became less eager overtime and that jeff bezos believe that people were inherently lazy. he said bez...

Issue that has affected other employees as well. mr. castillo of course was not the only employee at jfk eight to come down with covid. by may, another one of his coworkers had died of covid. but look at what the times is now reporting. quote, well amazon said publicly that it was just puzzling confirmed cases to health officials, new york city records show no reported cases from the amazon facility until november. the times notes that amazon and city officials dispute what happened. but believe me when i tell you that horrible confusion with the castillo family, at this construction site with...

Of that concentrated wealth is that they have a huge massive army of workers who handle all of those packages. they're the ones who make amazon all the money, along with the company's bottom line that work and ballooned last year. last year between july and october, amazon hired 350,000 new employees. that's more people than live in the entire city of st. louis, missouri. they added 350,000 new workers just from july to october. right now, amazon is the second largest private employer in the united states in their own pace to become the largest private employer within the next year or two. and...

Basically it. and so now he's doing it. he's funding a space tourism company and he's headed to space next month himself. the wealth that amazon, that company has generated, it's almost impossible to wrap your head around. especially over the past year because of the pandemic, amazon which was already unimaginably gigantic saw a huge upsurge in business last year. everybody was staying home, everyone was staying out of stores. everyone is ordering everything online. if you take everything that amazon made in profits before the pandemic and at those three years of profits together that's how mu...

It's particularly problematic if you're not a white pride person. according to internal records obtained by the times, black employees at jfk or 50% more likely to be fired than their white coworkers. more than 60% of the workers at the jfk warehouse are black or latino, but 70% of the people of company put in management positions there were white or asian. amazon said i couldn't confirm that data without nor more specifics about its source. one former hr vice president at amazon who spoke to the times told the times that amazon intentionally limited upward mobility for hourly workers. which m...