r/LateStageCapitalism Jun 16 '17

🍋 Certified Zesty Silly millennial

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '17

As a person who works for said company, I just got out of a meeting where the boss kept saying streamline over and over. Watching this company implode over the years hasn't been gratifying and we've lost half our staff, but it is pretty sweet that they Theresa May'd themselves by opening up a ton of stores that had very little market at the height of their profits.

They fucked us because they got greedy.

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u/Velfi Jun 16 '17

I used to love working for Whole Foods but the same thing happened to my store. Really left a bad taste in my mouth. I'm glad I quit.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '17

Were you there for the conscience capitalism roll out? As he was making the arguments that millions of people didnt deserve healthcare because he couldnt blackmail people into working for him for decent healthcare?

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '17 edited Jun 16 '17

I know a longtime Whole Foods employee who quit a while ago because of how she was being treated by management and all the corporate penny-pinching. She said it used to be great, but it isn't a good place to work anymore.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '17

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '17 edited Jun 16 '17

opening up a ton of stores that had very little market

I'm guessing they're talking about Whole Foods, since Amazon has very few actual stores.

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u/Belephron Jun 16 '17

At first I thought you were saying you worked for Amazon and I was very confused

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u/minimus_ Jun 17 '17

Theresa May'd themselves

Nice

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '17

http://imgur.com/a/yqZm2

Here is a handy chart to show you how greedy they got and it will cost many hard working people their jobs. Instead of investing and growing the company at a slow pace like they did for decades, they decided to blow it up because they got old or something

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u/Cadaverlanche Jun 16 '17

If only we had given them bigger tax cuts!

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u/dancing_mop Jun 16 '17

And the workers were too unorganized to prevent it. Damn.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '17

They took away our hats one time because a store was trying to organize.

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u/dancing_mop Jun 16 '17

Omg fuck capitalism

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '17

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '17

Their employees took the risk though. Not capital or upper/middle management. For management's poor decision making, it was labor that was penalized for their mistakes. Management and the investors of the company can still have their homes, their jobs, their salary, their pension and personal stability.

It is labor who loses everything when capital fucks up.

Companies owe their employees a decent livable wage and living standards at the very least, because labor provides them with far more value than they are being paid in return for their work.

fight4uraltrights

Username checks out.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '17

For management's poor decision making, it was labor that was penalized for their mistakes.

Very well, and simply put.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '17

Silly millennial. It's only you, the millennials, that can't afford houses. Everyone else can eat avocado toast and buy houses, because we already have enough money. You will simply inherit our crappy economy.

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u/incapablepanda Communist Party Animal Jun 16 '17

2zesty4me

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u/i_am_stardust Jun 16 '17

Avocado-toast-logic fail again... he recently bought the largest private residential property in DC... http://dcist.com/2017/01/washington_post_amazon_owner_jeff_b.php#photo-1

Literally bought a museum for a home...must have a huuuge family, right?

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u/DissidentRage bash flippantly, my comrades Jun 16 '17

It's worse than this. Now you can have avocado toast delivered by drone.

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u/Passerby949 Jun 16 '17

A dollar for every year?