Nice one!
I'll have a new Kindle Fire for Christmas please Santa.
Amazon is to bolster the UK launch of its Kindle Fire tablet by creating 5,000 full-time and temporary jobs in Blighty. The web retailer will open three new distribution centres in Britain, and claims it will recruit 2,000 people on a permanent basis over the next two years - as well as 3,000 temporary workers during the run …
Even allowing for temp jobs, the figure quoted is almost certainly bollocks. When Amazon opened the site at Dunfermline last year the jobs created figure in the press release included all posts created in Scotland since the last announcement. Amazon announced 200 extra jobs for one site, of which 60-80 had already been created in the 18 months previous.
Not sure how an upvote would be interpreted (Good thing they aren't importing it, or agreeing with the comment), but I agree with the comment. And they won't ship it to a UK address. Any thoughts as to whether there would be a problem getting .co.uk books on it (and no Calibre/DRM free/why would you pay comments please, I'm quite happy to spend less than £10 a month for books I actually want)?
I worked for 1 week in Amazon last Christmas it was most definitely the most souless job I have ever done. Walking 15 to 17 Km per day in a massive hangar size building with five floors of book shelves in 30 degree celsius temperatures. Just repeating the same route hour after hour. Security checks before lunch and at end of shift are exactly the same as airport security.
When the orders stop coming in the handheld scanner tells you to report to control so you can be sent home with no pay, absolutely inhumane place to work.