working seven days a week, 15 hours a day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Jassy is a creature of habit and tradition to an unusual degree. He meets each of his two kids, a son and a daughter, for breakfast once a week (always independently), on the same day at the same time, and has done so for years... He schedules two hours for himself on his calendar once a week to read (often Amazon-related memos), and on Tuesdays, as he’s done for the past 25 years, he has a date night with his wife, Elana."

He's still married after 28 years, has a weekly date night with his wife, and has breakfast independently with his two adult children every week. I'd say he's doing better on the homefront than most men.

His wife comforts herself with money and a pool boy. She’s thrilled he’s never home.

Was that implied in the article? Maybe she has her own interests, friends, and hobbies (not including cheating on her spouse of 28 years), and a weekly date night is enough for her after 28 years of marriage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:15 hour days?

30 min commute
15 hour day
30 min commute
1 hour eat dinner/shower
Sleep for 7 hours

What a life!!!!

My old CEO Nikolay Storonsky you can look him up was even tighter with his schedule. He lived a five minute walk our office. He spent 15 minutes day with family at breakfast time when they work up. Did a wear same outfit everyday to avoid picking out clothes. No Lunch. He would work 620 am to around 1130 pm every day. So 18 hours a day. Firm believe put work first.

He also was a 10X guy. Staff once they mastered their job, through very long hours, automating controls, high IQ should be able to do 10X the work of an employee at a competitor company.

He is a full time CEO at two companies. He work 90 hours during week and was working on weekends maybe 10 hours each day. I think he did 115 hours a week. He has been working those hours last decade.

He had a wife and kids. And he works out. On those days he claims he gets up early works out before his 15 minutes assigned for breakfast with family at 6 am to 615 am.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I observed employees at the old MCI Communications working 100 hour weeks. They all did. Flip side of the coin is a lot of those employees walked away with a cool financial reward for all their hard work.

I also observed employees in another company work very hard to help the owners get their start-up publishing house off the ground. Employees were mostly women. They even took work home on weekends and enlisted their family to get the work done (for free of course). Mostly nice people who were happy to help the owner. How did the owner repay them? Owner fired all of them a decade later, out on their ear with a couple of week's severance pay. Then they were replaced with younger and cheaper employees. True story.

MCI got bought by WorldCom. Alot of MCI employees got laid off during the merger. My father was one of them. They did get decent bonuses under MCI but I'm hard press to believe they were working 100 hours a week.

Um, ask your dad what kind of hours employees did (maybe not all of them?). If I recall correctly it was intense. I had college friends who worked there.

[Anonymous]

Mass firings, stopped profit sharing, stopped stock awarding for tier3s and under. They mass fired people today and moved th jobs to India. Under Jeff this wasn't the case. Amazing under this trash leader looks good on paper, because of all the cuts he has made but make no mistake Amazon is in decline.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mass firings, stopped profit sharing, stopped stock awarding for tier3s and under. They mass fired people today and moved th jobs to India. Under Jeff this wasn't the case. Amazing under this trash leader looks good on paper, because of all the cuts he has made but make no mistake Amazon is in decline.

It takes a lot to make Bezos look like a benevolent overlord, but Jassey has been like, "hold my beer..."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:15 hour days?

30 min commute
15 hour day
30 min commute
1 hour eat dinner/shower
Sleep for 7 hours

What a life!!!!

Try more like 60-90 minutes each way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mass firings, stopped profit sharing, stopped stock awarding for tier3s and under. They mass fired people today and moved th jobs to India. Under Jeff this wasn't the case. Amazing under this trash leader looks good on paper, because of all the cuts he has made but make no mistake Amazon is in decline.

It takes a lot to make Bezos look like a benevolent overlord, but Jassey has been like, "hold my beer..."

It was much better under bezos.

[Anonymous]

I’d rather be poor and live off the government

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:15 hour days?

30 min commute
15 hour day
30 min commute
1 hour eat dinner/shower
Sleep for 7 hours

What a life!!!!

My old CEO Nikolay Storonsky you can look him up was even tighter with his schedule. He lived a five minute walk our office. He spent 15 minutes day with family at breakfast time when they work up. Did a wear same outfit everyday to avoid picking out clothes. No Lunch. He would work 620 am to around 1130 pm every day. So 18 hours a day. Firm believe put work first.

He also was a 10X guy. Staff once they mastered their job, through very long hours, automating controls, high IQ should be able to do 10X the work of an employee at a competitor company.

He is a full time CEO at two companies. He work 90 hours during week and was working on weekends maybe 10 hours each day. I think he did 115 hours a week. He has been working those hours last decade.

He had a wife and kids. And he works out. On those days he claims he gets up early works out before his 15 minutes assigned for breakfast with family at 6 am to 615 am.

I never thought I would pity billionaires. That’s pretty sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Jassy is a creature of habit and tradition to an unusual degree. He meets each of his two kids, a son and a daughter, for breakfast once a week (always independently), on the same day at the same time, and has done so for years... He schedules two hours for himself on his calendar once a week to read (often Amazon-related memos), and on Tuesdays, as he’s done for the past 25 years, he has a date night with his wife, Elana."

He's still married after 28 years, has a weekly date night with his wife, and has breakfast independently with his two adult children every week. I'd say he's doing better on the homefront than most men.

His wife comforts herself with money and a pool boy. She’s thrilled he’s never home.

Was that implied in the article? Maybe she has her own interests, friends, and hobbies (not including cheating on her spouse of 28 years), and a weekly date night is enough for her after 28 years of marriage.

I suppose he has no friends, interests, and hobbies.

[Anonymous]

You can only have this lifestyle and a family if you have a wife take care of the family. Which is likely why tech bros are conservatives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can only have this lifestyle and a family if you have a wife take care of the family. Which is likely why tech bros are conservatives.

Why bother with a wife? Be like Elon and just do the weekly IVF donation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:F that.

At that point I'd just make a mud hut and live off the land while making my own food than be a slave.

Exactly. That work schedule makes subsistence agriculture and going back to the land look awesome.

That's a 16 hour work day 7 days a week.

1. No commute time
2. Includes gym/physical activity
3. Sunshine/outdoors
4. Family time
5. No boss telling you to work like you are the owner. This should be #1.
6. Does not require heels.
7. You can even take a break throughout the day for an afternoon roll in the hay rather than scheduling it once a week.

[Anonymous]

I have a friend who's worked there for 15 years and she's toast. She has no life. Her entire life is Amazon. I hate to say it, but I finally lost touch and stopped calling her even on her birthday because the only thing she wanted to/could talk about was Amazon, and I got so sick of hearing it. It's a horrible place. Wonder if she survived this recent lay off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a friend who's worked there for 15 years and she's toast. She has no life. Her entire life is Amazon. I hate to say it, but I finally lost touch and stopped calling her even on her birthday because the only thing she wanted to/could talk about was Amazon, and I got so sick of hearing it. It's a horrible place. Wonder if she survived this recent lay off.

To survive 15 years you really have to drink the Koolaid and buy into the cult. I made it 3 years. I actually love a lot of the people I worked with, but in an almost Stockholm Syndrome way. Lots of trauma bonding. She's probably pretty high up so likely perpetuates that at this point.