Amazon to move it’s second headquarters to Queens.[update 2/14 : Amazon cancels its plans.

[intruder]

You my ayisen breh but you share too much personal shyt my guy lol

I named a Sr VP who everyone knows and 2 office location where hundreds of people work. GE has been around almost 100 years. He could have looked up all these on Linkedin.

 

[BigMan]

I named a Sr VP who everyone knows and 2 office location where hundreds of people work. GE has been around almost 100 years. He could have looked up all these on Linkedin.

I’m saying in general brehim just looking out for you
I know where you live, where you work , some of your habits etc.

 

[AB Ziggy]

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio bluntly suggests Amazon wasn't tough enough to 'make it in New York City'

1:42 p.m. ET
It takes some serious grit to stare down subway rats every day and not start drafting a "Why I'm leaving New York" blog post. Apparently, Amazon didn't have it, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio suggested Thursday.

Amazon will scrap plans to build a second headquarters in Queens following opposition from "a number of state and local politicians," it announced in a statement on Thursday. The company had promised to bring 25,000 jobs to New York, and was slated to receive $3 billion in state and city incentive packages. De Blasio helped orchestrate those incentives and seemed firmly on Amazon's side until Thursday, when he released a harsh statement saying Amazon "threw away" its shot at working with "the greatest city in the world."





Before Thursday, De Blasio had largely supported the deal, at one point deflecting questions about whether Amazon's investment would fix the city's broken subway system and suggesting ferries might be the best way to get to the new headquarters.Kathryn Krawczyk

 

[AB Ziggy]

 

[Apollo Creed]

I work for GE Digital now (General Electric) in Atlanta . We have an Alpharetta office and a Buckhead office.

• We have many black Engineers and developers in here.
• The Senior VP who oversees Engineering is black. His name is Chet Guess. Look him up on Linkedin.
• Some of the Directors who oversee some of the different technologies (Windows, Linux, virtualization, networking, Storage, etc) are black. Well 2 of them are.

Oh.. we're hiring. In case you were wondering

I know it's often a challenge for us blacks to get opportunities but dont let that dissuade you. There are many black people working in these companies and raking in good money.

Have things improved? I know org wasnt in good shape last yr

 

[chineebai]

amazon sucks to work for, pay aint that great even for engineers plus long ass hours.

 

[intruder]

Have things improved? I know org wasnt in good shape last yr

Things are looking up

 

[Reece]

I have coworkers who couldn't find a reasonably priced house anywhere in Nashville or surrounding surburbs. Had a coworker who was living almost an hour and a half away from Nashville. shyt is bad.

Also yeah the infrastructure isn't keeping up with the growth. If Amazon opened in Nashville, Its going to get to Atlanta levels of ridiculous

That shyt is ridiculous. Does Nashville even have the incomes to support high price housing?

 

[intruder]

So will NY brehs boycott Amazon moving forward?

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

these are 150k jobs on average almost no queensbridge residents would have a chance

SERIOUS question.

What are they doing NOW for those residents?

I mean come on.

its NYC.

Its rich next to poor already. Yall act like this is some revolutionary act in NYC.

 

[Reece]

Facts

This was thousands of jobs.

The socialism tag is a terrible one.

I'm literally chuckling at the fact that dudes don't like corporate greed have no problem profiting from it in their free time and the toys they play in the lifestyle they choose the places they eat in entertainment that they want suddenly have a problem with subsidies to a large company when they indulge in every single day of their lives

Stop it.

First of all...New York City is not hurting for jobs. It's the biggest city in the country. Everyone wants to move there. NYC will survive. Google started a big ass headquarters there and no one cared because Google didn't come to NYC expecting the city to give them billions in tax relief. They just came. Bezos is a fukking a$$hole for being worth $150 billion and holding a Hunger Games-esque contest through the media to pit cities against each other to get the maximum amount of tax breaks possible. Google didn't do that shyt. General Electric didn't do that shyt when they moved to Boston. I'm not the least bit surprised he has workers peeing in soda bottles because they can't take breaks. If he thought this was a good marketing strategy, he's definitely a douchebag behind closed doors. He deserves all the criticism he received.

Secondly...Amazon wasn't hiring or training any native New Yorkers from the hood breh. They were hiring white kids who went to H/Y/P/S/MIT and other high paid tech workers who were in the NYC/NJ area. Amazon has abysmal rates of hiring for AAs, as does most Silicon Valley/Tech companies. Black people would have been working in the cafeteria and as janitors. While having those 25k workers making $150K would have stimulated the local economy as they would have had to spend that money somewhere, it would have raised rents tremendously for small business owners, renters and old people on fixed incomes. Amazon has destroyed Seattle for the most part, with many people that grew up there not being able to afford to buy a house. Google it, it's sad. Now, NYC is already one of the most expensive cities on Earth so Amazon being there would have had less effect than if it moved to a small city but, it's presence would have definitely added Queens to the list of places that are unaffordable for most people.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

People in here caping for Amazon to move there when they wouuld be doing so on the back of ridiculous fukking subsidies....

No one is caping for Amazon.

NYC had no backbone and Amazon took advantage of that in the deal.

The problem is that Amazon got cocky.

Amazon would have helped NYC, but NYC messed up in letting Amazon dictate the terms.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

The reality is your average person is conflicting their views with Amazon from a consumer perspective and what those views should be with Amazon as a NYC resident.

Because they get their dog food and toilet plungers in two days via their prime accounts they have a favorable view of the company. Your average NYer has done 0 research into the specifica of the deal. They just know Amazon = good because they like their services.

i agree amazon shouldn't get helipads and tax breaks...but theres no downsides for the city.

Hell, i think amazon should have invested in the MTA....but NYC didn't push them further on the initial deal.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Stop it.

First of all...New York City is not hurting for jobs. It's the biggest city in the country. Everyone wants to move there. NYC will survive. Google started a big ass headquarters there and no one cared because Google didn't come to NYC expecting the city to give them billions in tax relief. They just came. Bezos is a fukking a$$hole for being worth $150 billion and holding a Hunger Games-esque contest through the media to pit cities against each other to get the maximum amount of tax breaks possible. Google didn't do that shyt. General Electric didn't do that shyt when they moved to Boston. I'm not the least bit surprised he has workers peeing in soda bottles because they can't take breaks. If he thought this was a good marketing strategy, he's definitely a douchebag behind closed doors. He deserves all the criticism he received.

Secondly...Amazon wasn't hiring or training any native New Yorkers from the hood breh. They were hiring white kids who went to H/Y/P/S/MIT and other high paid tech workers who were in the NYC/NJ area. Amazon has abysmal rates of hiring for AAs, as does most Silicon Valley/Tech companies. Black people would have been working in the cafeteria and as janitors. While having those 25k workers making $150K would have stimulated the local economy as they would have had to spend that money somewhere, it would have raised rents tremendously for small business owners, renters and old people on fixed incomes. Amazon has destroyed Seattle for the most part, with many people that grew up there not being able to afford to buy a house. Google it, it's sad. Now, NYC is already one of the most expensive cities on Earth so Amazon being there would have had less effect than if it moved to a small city but, it's presence would have definitely added Queens to the list of places that were unaffordable for most people.

thats actually not true...NYC needs a bigger diversity of jobs. Amazon HQ2 and the ‘Gentrification of Jobs’ - CityLab

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

This all it would've done would gentrify queens worse than Brooklyn. And give about 50 brehs a janitor job

so wheres all yall entrepreneurs taking use of that land?