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Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B by alanfalcon on Friday June 16, 2017 @11:00AM (#14569574)
Zappos CS, front office, creative staff (etc.) got to keep their culture. Zappos warehouse workers got shafted.
Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B by jhall1468 on Friday June 16, 2017 @12:41PM (#14570421)
Blame Hsieh. He is given carte blanche over Zappos as long as he meets his revenue targets. Full stop.
Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B by SeeDave on Friday June 16, 2017 @01:11PM (#14570730)
Would it be possible to expound on this comment with a decent source (first party is totally okay!)?

I ask not as a personal attack on your credibility, this comment just seems a bit inconsistent with the Holacracy movement that he championed a couple of years back.

Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B by 20years on Saturday June 17, 2017 @12:51PM (#14576615)
Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B by alanfalcon on Saturday June 17, 2017 @12:26PM (#14576515)
https://pando.com/2012/06/06/zappos-hands-over-warehousing-t... - as you can see, the warehouse isn't included in any of the good stuff, it was just unceremoniously handed over to Amazon to be run as Amazon warehouses are run.

I agree that this is inconcsistent with the Holacracy movement (even if the move preceded the movement officially, clearly these workers were never fully Zappos employees in Tony's eyes, which is sad).

Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B by SeeDave on Monday June 19, 2017 @01:24AM (#14584764)
Thanks for sharing, and I agree that it is always sad to see upper management marginalize the contributions of certain groups of employees.