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by lefrenchy 1969 days ago
> Don’t buy that dinner, don’t buy those school supplies, don’t buy those gifts because you won’t have that almost $500 you paid in dues. WHY NOT save the money and get the books, gifts & things you want? DO IT without dues!

Man, that is really grim. Basically admitting that $500 will be make or break for many of these employees, while the company itself is hitting record numbers.
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chordalkeyboard 1969 days ago
https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/26/technology/amazon-q2-earnin...

I edited to remove my mistake, the downstream convo is gonna be wacky

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lefrenchy 1969 days ago
The numbers I saw were around 21 billion in profits with around 800k employees. Correct me if I’m wrong on those, but that’s more than 1000/employee.
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chordalkeyboard 1969 days ago
Apparently we are both mistaken. I am using 1.2 million employees from wikipedia, [0] has 2 billion usd in one quarter. So thats an upper bound of just under $8k per employee although thats guaranteed to be high as the 2 billion is a record.

However the profit appears substantially more than I had believed and I was mistaken so there’s that.

Thank you for the reply and the correction.

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