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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,033 posts)
Thu Jan 12, 2017, 09:11 PM Jan 2017

Amazon adding 100,000 jobs in U.S. over next 18 months. Will Trump try to take credit?

Remember him and Bezos hate each other with a passion.
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Amazon plans to add more than 100,000 full-time jobs in the U.S. by mid 2018, CEO Jeff Bezos said.

Most of the jobs will be in fulfillment centers, while there will be jobs added in Seattle, Bezos said in a statement Thursday morning.

Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) said it has 40,000 employees at corporate offices and fulfillment centers in Washington state. Once the company completes its expansion of its Seattle headquarters, Amazon will have more than 30 buildings covering over 10 million square feet in the city’s downtown core, the company said.

Amazon said it plans to increase its full-time U.S. workforce to more than 280,000 by mid-2018 from 180,000 in 2016.

http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2017/01/12/amazon-adding-100-000-jobs-in-us-bezos-trump.html?ana=e_me_set1&s=newsletter&ed=2017-01-12&u=ColXVN5SPzQtLHFP87ho2w07857290&t=1484266277&j=77053861

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Amazon adding 100,000 jobs in U.S. over next 18 months. Will Trump try to take credit? (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2017 OP
I think he already did, the damn opportunist, but the deplorables, WTF do they know, they will think RKP5637 Jan 2017 #1
Of course he will... Hugin Jan 2017 #2
He already has... CurtEastPoint Jan 2017 #3
And he's probably wrong. Initech Jan 2017 #9
'Trump would take credit for the sun rising each morning' LastLiberal in PalmSprings Jan 2017 #4
Drudgery work in mammoth boxes. I live near them: WinkyDink Jan 2017 #5
I have a brother in law who works for them Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2017 #6
Uh...What? Did you read the article, or did you make some assumption based on the blog's name? WinkyDink Jan 2017 #7
I think I like to go by real life experience Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2017 #8

RKP5637

(67,111 posts)
1. I think he already did, the damn opportunist, but the deplorables, WTF do they know, they will think
Thu Jan 12, 2017, 09:15 PM
Jan 2017

the orange ass orchestrated the entire thing. God, I hate that man for how he uses people.

Hugin

(33,162 posts)
2. Of course he will...
Thu Jan 12, 2017, 09:18 PM
Jan 2017

As the GEICO ads say, that's what he does.

But, even at 100,000 it's less than enough required for a monthly break-even on the jobs report.

4. 'Trump would take credit for the sun rising each morning'
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 06:07 AM
Jan 2017

Shush! Don't give him any ideas. He'd start referring to himself as the Sun God.

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