If I were Jeff Bezos, I'd over every furloughed fed employee a job (interview, ethics)

[Piney Creek]

He could easily afford it. They would just be temp employees until the shutdown gets resolved, so not even a huge expense. Amazon is one company that has things a temp employee could do in almost every state.

Just imagine the positive PR he would get from doing that.

Not to mention a chance to stick it to Trump (who could also hire a bunch of people, if he really wanted to demonstrate how much he sympathizes).


Just a thought...

[Piney Creek]

Title is supposed to read "I'd offer every furloughed employee a job". Ooops.

[tnff]

For many of them it might be illegal to take it if he did. Ethics rules.

[Piney Creek]

I believe you're allowed to take temp jobs. Especially a temp job designed for this specific situation.

[t206]

Amazon currently has 600k employees, you want him to more than double the size of his company and liabilities as a political stunt?

How do you think that would make his current employees feel, you know, the ones who think they are under paid?

Also, his stock holders would rightfully riot.

All in all one of the worst ideas I've ever seen posted here.

[gentlearts]

Are you kidding? First, in most cases the skills wouldnt matchup between companies. Second, the furloughed workers will get all their back pay, then get right back on the government teat. Complete with pension.

[OhioJB]

They wouldn't allow themselves to be treated like slave labor the way Bezos treats his employees. They'd strike on day one.

[Piney Creek]

Originally Posted by gentlearts

Are you kidding? First, in most cases the skills wouldnt matchup between companies. Second, the furloughed workers will get all their back pay, then get right back on the government teat. Complete with pension.

I bet they could easily make a data base for temp jobs that match skills. Plus, a place like Amazon has plenty of temp jobs that don't require much in the way of skills. Why would Bezos care if they get back pay or not? He'd be doing it for the PR, and to stick it to Trump.

[Enigma777]

Originally Posted by Piney Creek

I believe you're allowed to take temp jobs. Especially a temp job designed for this specific situation.

Not all of them. Some of them are not allowed to take another job--there have been a number of employees interviewed, and I remember one of them stating that.

The situation sucks all around for them. Nobody enjoys working for free with the promise of future payment very fuzzy at the moment.

Kudos to AT&T, Verizon and other companies that have stated federal employees don't have to worry about payment while they are out.

[Metlakatla]

Well, you're not Bezos. Guess now we know why.