{"id":177517,"date":"2019-08-30T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/08\/30\/making-a-list-and-checking-it-twice\/"},"modified":"2019-08-30T18:59:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T23:59:00","slug":"making-a-list-and-checking-it-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/08\/30\/making-a-list-and-checking-it-twice\/","title":{"rendered":"Making a List and Checking it Twice"},"content":{"rendered":"
I am not referring to Santa Claus, I am referring to Jeff Bezos and Amazon who have created an enemies list<\/a>.<\/div>\n

How charming:<\/p>\n

When Amazon scrubbed plans to build a second headquarters in New York City<\/a> earlier this year, the reason appeared rooted in a debate about unions, tax subsidies and housing costs. <\/p>\n

Then there was the burn book. <\/p>\n

In a private dossier kept at the time, whose existence has gone previously unreported, Amazon executives cataloged in minute detail the insults they saw coming from New York politicians and labor leaders<\/a>, according to a copy viewed by The Wall Street Journal. <\/p>\n

By late January, Amazon executives had been pummeled at two public hearings<\/a>. The burn book, which was kept in a Microsoft Word document called \u201cNY Negative Statements,\u201d had separate sections for a half-dozen politicians and officials who had gone from thorns in the company\u2019s side to formidable opponents of a deal that now looked to be in jeopardy. <\/p>\n

The document recorded how opponents mocked the helipad Amazon planned to build, pushed the Twitter<\/a> hashtag #scamazon, and brought up the company\u2019s work for the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a sore spot among some Amazon employees. It was an eight-page, bullet-pointed, Calibri font testimony to Amazon\u2019s sensitivities.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026 <\/p>\n

After this article was published online, an Amazon spokeswoman said the document was compiled as preparation for city council hearings.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No, it wasn’t a prep for council meeting, it was the airing of grievances by and for a billionaire and a company that believe that they should be lauded as visionary prophets, and not the abusive and extortative sh%$-heels that they actually are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am not referring to Santa Claus, I am referring to Jeff Bezos and Amazon who have created an enemies list. How charming: When Amazon scrubbed plans to build a second headquarters in New York City earlier this year, the reason appeared rooted in a debate about unions, tax subsidies and housing costs. Then there …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[617,365,364,590,480,403],"class_list":["post-177517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-amazon","tag-business","tag-evil","tag-protests","tag-taxes","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}