Word: depotism
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...space and brought in three Sun workstations. Extension cords snaked from every available outlet in the house to the garage, and a black hole gaped through the ceiling--this was where a potbellied stove had been ripped out to make more room. To save money, Bezos went to Home Depot and bought three wooden doors. Using angle brackets and 2-by-4s, he hammered together three desks, at a cost of $60 each. (That frugality continues at Amazon to this day; every employee sits behind a door desk.) MacKenzie agreed to work with the crew a few days a week...
Richard Parker loves to work from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. A member of the Home Depot night staff, he restocks merchandise and serves customers at the vast Marina del Rey, Calif., store, where 6,000 customers visit each 24-hour day. Parker, 28, views his team as "a tight-knit family. We are the gears, not the outcasts," he says...
Many workers consider the night shift a liberating experience. Home Depot's Parker can chauffeur his grandmother around the Los Angeles area and relax by his backyard pool during the day. Andrea Shalal-Esa, the night reporter for the Washington bureau of Reuters news agency, likes working from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. because it allows her to be a daytime mom to her two children. William Cockshoot, a Chicago commodities trader, finds he is better able to catch a price spread at night that would be snapped up faster by competitors during the day. The corporate investigators who work...
...Jones Company announced it was dumping four underperforming stocks from its Industrial Average in favor of four darlings of the new economy. Out were old-school companies Sears, Goodyear, Chevron and Union Carbide. In their place the 30-company index added Intel, Microsoft, SBC Communications and Home Depot. If nothing else, adding four high-flying stocks will be good medicine for an index mired for the past month in the Dow-drums...
...beholder. Russian forces, purportedly on a campaign against Chechen terrorists, fired missiles into a crowded market place and a maternity home in Grozny Thursday, reportedly killing more than 100 civilians. Although Moscow denied that any civilians had died in what it called a strike on an arms depot, Western reporters inside Grozny reported seeing scores of broken bodies strewn across the marketplace and the corpses of a large number of women and babies at the maternity home. The U.S. expressed concern over the civilian casualties, and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held tense talks on the crisis at a meeting...