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Jeff bezos recently said that he wants to do things differently and the question is now, how far will he go? >> reading about this is a business story. you can almost imagine a sort of evil genius on the business side thinking boy i wish i had that. i wish i had the ability to treat workers that disposable. to automate all of their interactions with the company. to have them get hired by a machine and fired by a machine, and have them not have anybody to call and complain, and i can just turn through people and use them like tools. you can imagine the sort of evil business -- sort of efficienc...

Before the pandemic, amazon was losing 3% of its hourly workforce every week which means 100 and 50% turn over a year. their entire workforce was completely turning over in less than a year. one former amazon employee telling the new york times about what it means for a company as biggest amazon to churn through its entire huge workforce once or twice a year. he says, quote, you need to have eight, nine, 10 million people apply each year. that's about 5% of the entire american workforce. the company is worried they will literally not have enough people to keep turning through the keeping the s...

Through at least the american workforce in the way that is going to force them to change. they can't just keep doing this. the on ten millions americans were going to apply for these jobs every year. if this is what the jobs are like. >> there were some courageous veterans who went on the record with my colleague karen weiss. why they told karen in seattle is that they are deeply worried. they are worried about amazon running out of workers and they're also running -- some basis idea like the idea that workers are lazy, human beings want to expand less effort, etc. these were interesting, prov...

Reach somebody from amazon to find out what happened. most of the calls and emails went unanswered and then finally she got someone on the phone who agreed it was an error and reinstated the payments. but then she got an email from amazon addressed to her husband that made no sense and said quote, we notified your manager in hr wrap about your return to work on october 1st 2020. what? mr. castillo cannot eat or talk let along work. how is he gonna go back to work? especially since the company notice they're paying him disability payments. mr. castillo's wife says she doesn't think the company ...

Everybody -- we're just on edge. >> i like how the smart shoppers did not intervene. >> you intervene. we're standing around watching this? who's this? >> this is pretty aggressive teej. i don't know. >> look. look we've got spectators here. >> you know what the problem might have been, teej? >> i've got to hear this. >> it was a sad day for toy lovers. maybe they heard the news. okay out of new york city. this is painful. this is painful. >> it is. in new york city the fao schwarz, the flagship store on fifth avenue has closed its doors. real estate in that part of town apparently too expen...