Best moment is when you crack the code, realise how to do all your **** fast and possible and **** around the rest of the day. I could get in at 9, do everything by 12, and **** around for the rest of the day. Even got frisky with a woman in the printer room. It had its perks office **** like, cant lie.
Was talking about drivers, most of whom are (or certainly were, it might have changed recently) on bogus self employment contracts.
Amazon is in the business of disrupting existing sectors, and not creating new demand. So it’s service takes business from existing retail businesses. People uses it in preference to visiting retail outlets. So over time that reduces the viability of a hole host of retail businesses. It is what it is I suppose, as we as the consumers like the convenience and the service. I have no beef with the service Amazon provides, as I use it myself. My only beef with that company is how it institutionally avoids paying it’s fair share of corporation tax. That’s simply not right and is detrimental to our society.
Two things to consider. 1) The population in the country rises @ 400,000 per year, which is 400,000 extra mouths to feed, 400,000 extra people to entertain, 400,000 extra targets for a retail market. 2) You (we) either want to contribute to climate change or you don’t. Digital age is coming, it’s here and it’s going nowhere, and it is paramount to saving the planet. Bricks and mortar stores have to adapt or perish.
I've done nothing but online purchases since March. However, I feel there is a social issue side to this, dependent on where you are on the social ladder. Afterall internet shopping, requires the use of a device, if you can afford one. It is also requires a residence to deliver to. Much like the future of a cashless society, how will we then help a homeless person who may not own a phone or a way to charge it. Anyway I found what I saw as an interesting concept during my online Christmas purchases this year, that was a company, that also gave a charitable donation to a high street store of your choice. So for example, if I purchased a book online, I could select an independent bookstore, to receive a donation from my purchase. I don't know how good this is or how well it works, but maybe something worth considering more, so that retail shops don't completely disappear.
Frasers Group, the rebranded Sports Direct, has started to make tremendous amounts of cash by buying up every single failing or upcoming high street store and converting their main focus to online purchases. He's used Sports Directs pre-existing infrastructure to accomplish this. He's regularly pulled before tribunals so politicians can scream at him about jobs, high street is on deaths door.
lol, yep, I always used to find a system to look good whilst doing as little as possible so I could **** around all day.
