Word: one
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When I started I was one of the fastest pickers here," says John Edwards. "But now that I do other jobs, some people have passed...
...crates arrive at a central point where bar codes are matched with order numbers to determine who gets what. Your three items end up in a 3-ft.-wide chute--one of several thousand--and are placed into a cardboard box with a new bar code that identifies your order...
...money. Oh, to be one of the Amazon anointed, those who signed on early and are enjoying multimillion-dollar payouts. You hear about Gen Xers turned philanthropists: the woman who signed up out of college and plans to retire at 30; the guy who launched a dog-biscuit business on the side. "We get told not to watch the ticker," says Marcus, a three-year vet who, one imagines, does so anyway...
They go to movie screenings and rave about their fierce broomball rivalry. They throw Friday-night keggers, Valentine's Day parties and masquerade balls. Last fall's Halloween party was so huge that PacMed security guys were checking IDs at the door. WELCOME CAMPUS RECRUITS reads one note scrawled on an elevator whiteboard, summing up the prevailing spirit. AMAZON UBER ALLES...
...computer assigns your order--a book, a game and a digital camera--to one of Amazon's seven U.S. distribution centers, five of which it opened this year. With 3 million sq. ft., Amazon has 1.5 times the floor space of the Empire State Building...