Don't Say the "M" Word!

Subsidies Awarded to Amazon.com: At Least $1,603,000,000… and Counting! And So Where Are Your Tax Dollars Going?

Whoever enters here honors me; whoever doesn’t- pleases me.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

          

    Live Yet Pre-recorded- Episode XCVII of:

 Don’t Say the “M” Word!

         

         A Silent Radio Hour: Live Yet Pre-Recorded:

“I understand people believe I'm just a statistic

I say to them I'm different”

10th grader, Antwon Rose

“De l’audace, encore de l’audace, toujours de l’audace!” [“Audacity, audacity, always audacity!”]

-Georges Danton

R#2: Welcome cherished listeners! I’m Becka better known as Reject #2! I’m continuing to lead, while the Brothers Grimm are still missing, “our” ‘A Silent Radio Hour’ live yet pre-recorded here on Reject Square in the heart of downtown Seattle, Washington kitty-corner to the Corporate Headquarters of Amazon.com in the United States of Everybody’s Quickly Becoming a Reject Existing on Their Own Reject Square Here or SWCHAcUSEQBRETORSH in: America!

         TheRejects: USA! USA! USA! Not a good day to be poor in the Good Ole USA!

         R#2: Unrighteously so!

         R#1: Speaking of which? Still no news on the Brothers Grimm?

         R#2: Still unknown!

         TheRejects: Unknown! Unknown! Unknown! Beware of the Unknown!

         R#2: Righteously so! And now onto “our” present Episode or E! For your, hopefully, pleasure if not outright delight! Ladies and gentlemen! Boys and girls of The Mickey Mouse Club! ‘Lovers of Democracy’ as Thomm Hartman says at the beginning of each and every one of his shows!

         R#7: Love that Tommy “boy” Hartman!

         TheRejects: Quiet!

         R#2: Okay than! Please welcome The Stupid Ass Scratching Mark Oglesby better known as TheSASMO!

         TheRejects: TheSASMO! TheSASMO! TheSASMO! Let TheSASMO be TheSASMO!

         R#2: Righteously so!

         TheSASMO: Before we begin! Let’s have a look at some data supplied by Amazon Tracker!

Subsidies Awarded to Amazon.com: At least $1,603,000,000… and Counting!

TheSASMO: This web page, Amazon Tracker, tallies state and local economic development subsidy deals given toTheAmazon! It covers warehouses, data centers, and film productions as well as subsidiaries such as Whole Foods Supermarkets, Zappos and Audible. Subsidized Project or SP includes: Year awarded! State and city or county! Estimated subsidy cost! And what type of facility!

         TheRejects: What TheSASMO?

TheSASMO: Unrighteously so! Now! Since this exposé was released, there’s been greater scrutiny concerning the secrets surrounding tax-break packages awarded to TheAmazon! This sometimes makes calculating such costs difficult! What with Secret Project Names or SPNs! Non-Disclosure Agreements or NDAs! And the extreme reluctance by public officials to fully disclose costs even after a deal has been awarded!

TheRejects: What TheSASMO?

TheSASMO: This suggests that Amazon.com and public officials know these deals have become controversial! Know that “they’re” in this together! Know that Amazon.com’s nothing but a ruthless pimp selling out “their” political whores! Just ask the Seattle, Washington City Mayor and The City Council! Anyway! The chart below will continue to be published on Amazon.com especially as the drama plays out for TheAmazon’s second Corporate Headquarters or “HQ2” as TheAmazon Tax-Break Auction or TATBA heats up! Buyers Beware or BB least your City Square or CS becomes a Reject Square!

TheRejects: What TheSASMO?

Check Out Corporate Welfare In Action!

Subsidy Year

City and/or County

State

Subsidy Amount

Activity

2018

Garner in Wake County

North Carolina

$5,100,000 plus Brownfield property tax abatements

distribution facility

2018

Gaines Township

Michigan

$4,000,000 from the state plus unknown value of 50% property tax abatements

distribution facility

2018

Schodack in Rensselaer County

New York

$13,700,000

distribution facility

2018

Charlotte

North Carolina

$13,400,000

distribution facility

2018

Bessemer in Jefferson County

Alabama

$51,000,000 plus unspecified amount in local occupational tax incentives

distribution facility

2018

Tulsa

Oklahoma

$2,300,000

distribution facility

2018

Oklahoma City (Will Rogers World Airport)

Oklahoma

$1,700,000

distribution facility/airport hub

2018

West Jefferson, Madison County

Ohio

$1,500,000 from the state plus unknown amount of property tax abatement

distribution facility

2018

Boston

Massachusetts

$30,000,000

regional headquarters

2018

Salt Lake City

Utah

$5,600,000

distribution facility

2018

Thornton

Colorado

$3,700,000

distribution facility

2018

Dundalk

Maryland

$16,200,000

distribution facility

2018

unspecified

Ohio

unspecified discount on electricity for data center

distribution facility

2018

St. Peters

Missouri

$78,600,000

distribution facility

2017

Hermiston

Oregon

$176,000,000

data center

2017

Macon-Bibb County

Georgia

$2,500,000 from the state and the county plus unknown value of property tax abatements

distribution facility

2017

Memphis

Tennessee

$18,200,000

distribution facility

2017

Shelby Township In Macomb County

Michigan

$15,000,000

distribution facility

2017

Cabarrus County

North Carolina

$3,324,700

distribution facility

2017

New York City Region

New York

$18,000,000

distribution facility

2017

Katy

Texas

Secret: 20-year 50% rebate

distribution facility

2017

Troutdale

Oregon

$9,600,000

distribution facility

2017

North Haven

Connecticut

$25,000,000

distribution facility

2017

Orange County

Florida

$0 from the locality; state subsidies possible

distribution facility

2017

Monroe

Ohio

$3,800,000 (state tax credits only; local subsidy unknown)

distribution facility

2017

North Randall

Ohio

$7,800,000 (state tax credits only; local subsidy unknown)

distribution facility

2017

Salem

Oregon

$3,600,000

distribution facility

2017

Hazelwood

Missouri

$32,000,000

distribution facility

2017

Cecil County/North East

Maryland

$7,100,000

distribution facility

2017

Livonia

Michigan

$7,500,000

distribution facility

2017

Romulus

Michigan

$18,500,000

distribution facility

2017

Aurora

Colorado

$1,180,000

distribution facility

2017

Jacksonville

Florida

$7,875,000

distribution facility

2017

Hebron/Boone County; at CVG Airport

Kentucky

$75,000,000

distribution facility

2017

Coppell

Texas

Secret

distribution facility

2017

Katy

Texas

Secret

distribution facility

2017

Clear Brook

Virginia

Secret

distribution facility

2017

Unspecified

California

$4,000,000

Amazon Studios

2017

Unspecified

California

$1,091,000

Amazon Studios

2017

Mobile

Alabama

$1,300,000

distribution facility

2017

Wyadotte County/Kansas City

Kansas

$20,002,522

distribution facility

2016

Unspecified

California

$5,222,000

Amazon Studios

2016

Kenosha

Wisconsin

$435,500

distribution facility

2016

Fresno

California

$30,000,000

distribution facility

2016

Morrow County

Oregon

$12,630,574

data center

2016

Umatilla County

Oregon

$2,975,370

data center

2016

Multiple Facilities

California

$1,750,000

distribution facility

2016

Jacksonville

Florida

$13,400,000

distribution facility

2016

Braselton

Georgia

$504,023

distribution facility

2016

Multiple Facilities

Illinois

$83,125,187

distribution facility

2016

Edgerton

Kansas

$1,800,000

distribution facility

2016

North Las Vegas

Nevada

$1,800,000

distribution facility

2016

Twinsburg

Ohio

$270,000

distribution facility

2016

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

$22,250,000

distribution facility

2016

Davidson County

Tennessee

$45,000

distribution facility

2016

Davidson County

Tennessee

$45,000

distribution facility

2016

Harris County

Texas

$7,000,000

distribution facility

2016

Milwaukee

Wisconsin

$10,300,000

distribution facility

2016

Braselton

Georgia

737,180

distribution facility

2016

Portland

Maine

48095

Whole Foods supermarket

2015

Umatilla County

Oregon

$2,975,317

data center

2015

Morrow County

Oregon

$5,419,771

distribution facility

2015

Windsor

Connecticut

$3,900,000

distribution facility

2015

Baltimore

Maryland

$45,125,000

distribution facility

2015

Fall River/Freetown

Massachusetts

$14,889,275

distribution facility

2015

Shakopee

Minnesota

$5,766,414

distribution facility

2015

Reno/Washoe County

Nevada

$572,500

distribution facility

2015

Reno/Washoe County

Nevada

$408,100

distribution facility

2015

Reno/Washoe County

Nevada

$384,200

distribution facility

2015

Reno/Washoe County

Nevada

$75,000

distribution facility

2015

Newark

New Jersey

$39,375,000

Audible

2015

Not Available

New York

$5,000,000

distribution facility

2015

Licking County/Etna and Obetz

Ohio

$17,543,000

distribution facility

2015

Dallas County

Texas

Secret

distribution facility

2015

San Marcos

Texas

$11,000,000

distribution facility

2015

Not Available

Washington

$5,554,780

distribution facility

2015

Warrenton

Virginia

$2,700,000

distribution facility

2015

Portland

Maine

35827

Whole Foods supermarket

2015

Brooklyn, NYC

New York

350,000

Whole Foods supermarket

2014

Kenosha

Wisconsin

$5,500,000

distribution facility

2014

Moreno Valley, Tracy, Newark, & San Bernardino

California

$1,575,000

distribution facility

2014

Davenport

Florida

$840,710

distribution facility

2014

Hillsborough County

Florida

$900,000

distribution facility

2014

Lakeland

Florida

$4,500,000

distribution facility

2014

Miami

Florida

$6,200,000

distribution facility

2014

Polk County

Florida

$595,200

distribution facility

2014

Polk County

Florida

$240,000

distribution facility

2014

Stoughton

Massachusetts

$3,490,000

distribution facility

2014

Franklin County

Ohio

$4,011,698

data center

2014

Multiple Facilities

Ohio

$93,700,000

data center

2014

Bradley County

Tennessee

Secret

distribution facility

2014

Bradley County

Tennessee

Secret

distribution facility

2014

Chattanooga

Tennessee

$313,538

distribution facility

2014

Lebanon

Tennessee

$75,924

distribution facility

2014

Murfreesboro

Tennessee

$506,160

distribution facility

2014

Wilson County

Tennessee

Secret

distribution facility

2014

Dallas

Texas

$500,000

distribution facility

2014

Not Available

Virginia

$2,331,839

distribution facility

2014

Not Available

Virginia

$863,460

distribution facility

2014

Not Available

Virginia

$500,000

distribution facility

2014

Not Available

Washington

$3,879,325

distribution facility

2014

Portland

Maine

36869

Whole Foods supermarket

2014

New Orleans

Louisiana

375000

Whole Foods supermarket

2013

Boone County

Kentucky

$25,000

distribution facility

2013

Bullitt County

Kentucky

$50,000

Zappos distribution center

2013

Fayette County

Kentucky

$50,000

distribution facility

2013

Jefferson County

Kentucky

$18,000

distribution facility

2013

Taylor County

Kentucky

$132,000

distribution facility

2013

Lexington County

South Carolina

Secret

distribution facility

2013

Spartanburg County

South Carolina

$47,962

distribution facility

2013

Bradley County

Tennessee

$102,500

distribution facility

2013

Hamilton County

Tennessee

$599,500

distribution facility

2013

Not Available

Washington

$4,450,295

distribution facility

2013

Kenosha

Wisconsin

$10,300,000

distribution facility

2013

Kenosha

Wisconsin

$17,000,000

distribution facility

2013

Portland

Maine

46248

Whole Foods supermarket

2012

Jeffersonville

Indiana

$1,000,000

distribution facility

2012

Jeffersonville

Indiana

$1,000,000

distribution facility

2012

Jeffersonville

Indiana

$300,000

distribution facility

2012

Boone County

Kentucky

$100,000

distribution facility

2012

Boone County

Kentucky

$25,000

distribution facility

2012

Boone County

Kentucky

$25,000

distribution facility

2012

Boone County

Kentucky

$25,000

distribution facility

2012

Bullitt County

Kentucky

$100,000

Zappos distribution center

2012

Bullitt County

Kentucky

$50,000

Zappos distribution center

2012

Bullitt County

Kentucky

$25,188

Zappos distribution center

2012

Fayette County

Kentucky

$27,788

distribution facility

2012

Taylor County

Kentucky

$50,000

distribution facility

2012

Spartanburg County

South Carolina

$750,000

distribution facility

2012

Lebanon

Tennessee

$3,500,000

distribution facility

2012

Murfreesboro

Tennessee

$3,500,000

distribution facility

2012

Coppell

Texas

Secret

distribution facility

2012

Statewide

Texas

$269,000,000

distribution facility

2012

Chesterfield County

Virginia

$1,000,000

distribution facility

2012

Dinwiddie County

Virginia

$2,500,000

distribution facility

2012

Not Available

Virginia

$850,000

distribution facility

2012

Statewide

Washington

$350,661

distribution facility

2012

Portland

Maine

60765

Whole Foods supermarket

2011

New Castle County

Delaware

$3,472,500

distribution facility

2011

Whitestown

Indiana

$150,000

distribution facility

2011

Cayce

South Carolina

$61,000,000

distribution facility

2011

Portland

Maine

53405

Whole Foods supermarket

2010

Plainfield

Indiana

$149,500

distribution facility

2010

Whitestown

Indiana

$200,000

distribution facility

2010

Lexington County

South Carolina

$2,500,000

distribution facility

2010

Portland

Maine

90142

Whole Foods supermarket

2009

Plainfield

Indiana

$1,650,000

distribution facility

2009

Whitestown

Indiana

$5,000,000

distribution facility

2009

Portland

Maine

32672

Whole Foods supermarket

2008

Maricopa County/Pheonix

Arizona

$4,000,000

distribution facility

2008

Phoenix

Arizona

$739,671

distribution facility

2008

New Orleans

Louisiana

122000

Whole Foods supermarket

2007

Bullitt County

Kentucky

$199,500

Zappos distribution center

2006

Hebron

Kentucky

$800,000

distribution facility

2006

Hebron

Kentucky

$750,000

distribution facility

2005

Shepherdsville

Kentucky

$6,800,000

distribution facility

2002

New Orleans

Louisiana

70587

Whole Foods supermarket

2000

Campbellsville

Kentucky

$19,037,500

distribution facility

2000

Lexington

Kentucky

$8,500,000

distribution facility

Total

At least $1,603,898,442

TheSASMO: BOOYA! Sad but true! Your tax money at work! That’s all tax-payer money going to TheAmazon and the gazillionaire Jeff Bezos!

         TheRejects: BOOYA! BOOYA! BOOYA! In your face Amazon!

         R#2: Righteously so! And with that! Onto today’s Episode or E! TheSASMO, please!

In The Words of An Amazon.com Fulfillment Center Worker: “It is Modern Slavery!”

TheSASMO: Many, many Amazon workers from around the world have described the intense pressure of working in a warehouse where they pick and pack items for delivery. One US worker…

         TheRejects: USA! USA! USA! Amazon.com could only happen here in the Good Ole USofA!

TheSASMO: One day an Amazon.com Warehouse Worker or AcWHW described an “awful smell” coming from one of the warehouse trash cans!

TheRejects: What TheSASMO?

TheSASMO: In short! Co-workers would urinate in the trash cans for fear of missing their targets, production numbers, because they took too much time going to the restroom. Others said their short, timed breaks were reduced further as they waited in lines to go through security.

TheRejects: Fascists! Fascists! Fascists! TheAmazon’s controlled by Fascists!

R#2: Now SASMO? TheAmazon certainly pushes back on the media accounts of warehouse working conditions by saying thousands upon thousands of people want jobs picking and packing because of competitive pay and benefits? The company says that it has abolished penalties for taking time off and that it doesn’t time employees’ restroom breaks? Answer the question! TheSASMO, please!

TheSASMO: As an Active Amazon Warehouse Worker or AAWW! I can validate everything being described by the media as absolutely correct!

R#2: How so TheSASMO?

TheSASMO: Concerning people wanting to work for TheAmazon? I live in an economically depressed region of southern California called ‘The Inland Empire!’ Why I don’t rightly know! Anyway! People lack jobs! And “any” job’s better than no job at all!

R#2: How so TheSASMO?

TheSASMO: A paycheck’s better than no paycheck! Even Low Amazonian Pay or LAP…

TheRejects: LAP! LAP! LAP! The LAP keeps screaming back!

TheSASMO: Unrighteously so! Here’s a fact!

TheRejects: The Facts! The Facts! The Facts! TheSASMO gives all The Facts!

TheSASMO: Over and above 50% of Amazon.com Workers or AcWs live at or near The Poverty Line TPL! Again! A teeny, tiny, barely visible paycheck’s still better than none!

R#2: Thank TheBezos children!

TheRejects: Thank you Jeff Bezos!

TheSASMO: Yeah! Thousands upon thousands will line-up for a slot in TheAmazon Meat-Grinder or TAMG but will those thousands upon thousands stay with TheAmazon? BY choice or otherwise?

TheRejects: What TheSASMO?

TheSASMO: As a matter of fact!

TheRejects: Fascists! Fascists! Fascists! TheAmazon’s controlled by Fascists!

TheSASMO: The facts! Not Fascists!

TheRejects: Sorry! The Facts! The Facts! The Facts! TheSASMO gives all The Facts!

R#2: Righteously so! TheSASMO, please!

TheSASMO: For every thousand hired! There’s likely nine hundred and ninety-nine terminated! Okay! Nine hundred and eighty-nine thousand terminated!

R#2: And TheAmazon doesn’t publicize these facts? These Terminated or T’d workers who were thrown out-on-the-street, under-the-bus Warehouse Workers or WWs?

R#7: And Jonathan would say!

TheRejects: Bullshit!

R#7: TheAmazon T’d me just last week! Got me on Time Off Task or TOT!

TheRejects: Give us “your” Tell Of Tales or TOT R#7!

R#7: Got an emergency call that my baby-girl was taken to hospital! She turned out to be just fine but in all the commotion and my obvious anxiety over my child being taken to hospital, I forgot to clock-out and presto! TOT! T’d for Time Off Task!

R#1: TOT certainly T’s me off!

TheRejects: T’d Off! T’d Off! T’d Off! Amazon.com workers are T’d Off!

TheSASMO: And ready to fight back! But that’s for another day! As for now? Competitive pay and benefits are a joke! When you can’t afford to cloth, feed; give a roof over the heads of yourself and family: Amazon’s competitive pay and benefits mean little! When you have to go to some government agency and beg for food stamps or what they know call SNAP just to feed your little ones? LAP! LAP! LAP! Low Amazon Pay brings on SNAP!

TheRejects: Fascists! Fascists! Fascists! TheAmazon’s controlled by Fascists!

TheSASMO: The facts! Not Fascists!

TheRejects: Sorry! The Facts! The Facts! The Facts! TheSASMO gives all The Facts!

R#2: Righteously so! TheSASMO, please!

TheSASMO: And when most are Terminated or T’d! When most are so frustrated by Amazon.com Bullshit or AcBs…

TheRejects: AcBs! AcBs! AcBs! Amazon Bullshit’s getting pretty deep!

R#3: And everybody sing!

TheRejects&TheSASMO: It was back in nineteen forty-two I was a member of a good platoon We were on maneuvers in-a Loozianna One night by the light of the moon The AM told us to ford a river That’s how it all begun We were knee deep in the Big Muddy But the big fool (TheAmazon) said to push on The PA said, “Sir, are you sure This is the best way back to the base?” “PA, go on! I forded this river 'Bout a mile above this place It’ll be a little soggy but just keep slogging We’ll soon be on dry ground.” We were waist deep in the Big Muddy And the big fool (TheAmazon) said to push on The PA said, “Sir, with all this equipment No man will be able to swim.” “PA, don’t be a Nervous Nellie,” The AM said to him “All we need is a little determination; Men, follow me, I'll lead on.” We were neck deep in the Big Muddy And the big fool (TheAmazon) said to push on All at once, the moon clouded over We heard a gurgling cry A few seconds later, the AM’s helmet Was all that floated by The PA said, “Turn around men! I’m in charge from now on.” And we just made it out of the Big Muddy With the AM dead and gone We stripped and dived and found his body Stuck in the old quicksand I guess he didn’t know that the water was deeper Than the place he’d once before been Another stream had joined the Big Muddy ‘Bout a half mile from where we’d gone We were lucky to escape from the Big Muddy When the big fool (TheAmazon) said to push on Well, I’m not going to point any moral; I’ll leave that for yourself Maybe you’re still walking, you’re still talking You’d like to keep your health But every time I read the papers That old feeling comes on; We’re waist deep in the Big Muddy And the big fool (TheAmazon) says to push on Waist deep in the Big Muddy And the big fool (TheAmazon) says to push on Waist deep in the Big Muddy And the big fool (TheAmazon) says to push on Waist deep! Neck deep! Soon even a Tall man’ll be over his head We’re waist deep in the Big Muddy

And the big fool (TheAmazon) says to push on!

TheSASMO: When most finally find something better, anything! When many of the “so-called” leadership “vest” all “their” shares! Well folks! It so long Amazon!

TheRejects: And good riddance!

TheSASMO: And get this one! When TheAmazon PR Drone! Excuse me! The Public Relations Spokesperson says: ‘… that it has abolished penalties for taking time off and that it doesn’t time employees’ restroom breaks’ in truth children: It’s all a lie!

TheRejects: Liar! Lair! Liar! TheAmazon PR Drone’s pants are on fire!

R#3: And everybody sing once again!

TheRejects&TheSASMO: I am the god of hell fire (TheAmazon) and I bring you Fire, (TheAmazon) I'll take you to burn Fire (TheAmazon), I’ll take you to learn (TheAmazon) I’ll see you burn! (TheAmazon) You fought hard and you saved and learned (TheAmazon) But all of it’s going to burn (TheAmazon) And your mind, your tiny mind (TheAmazon) You know you’ve really been so blind (TheAmazon) Now’s your time burn your mind (TheAmazon) You’re falling far too far behind (TheAmazon) Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, you going to burn! (TheAmazon) Fire, (TheAmazon) to destroy all you’ve done (TheAmazon) Fire, (TheAmazon) to end all you've become (TheAmazon) I’ll feel you burn! (TheAmazon) You've been living like a little girl In the middle of your little world And your mind, your tiny mind You know you’ve really been so blind Now's your time burn your mind (TheAmazon) You’re falling far too far behind (TheAmazon) Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no Fire, (TheAmazon) I’ll take you to burn Fire, (TheAmazon) I’ll take you to learn (TheAmazon) You're going to burn! (TheAmazon) You're going to burn! (TheAmazon) You're going to burn! (TheAmazon) You're going to burn! burn! burn! burn! Fire, (TheAmazon) I’ll take you to burn Fire, (TheAmazon) I’ll take you to learn Fire, (TheAmazon) to end all you’ve become Fire, (TheAmazon) I’ll watch you burn (TheAmazon) I am the god of hell fire, (TheAmazon) ha ha ha ha ha! (TheAmazon)!

TheSASMO: Quite so! Anyway! Every worker in the Amazon.com Fulfillment Center Chain is put on a hyperactive “stop-watch” like surveillance system which measures every second of everyday you’re there! And when spending over five minutes in the restroom?

TheRejects: What SASMO? What?

TheSASMO: The interrogation begins! Kinda goes like this: ‘So? You vent to z vestroom did you?’ ‘Yes!’ ‘And if ve don’t believe you?’ ‘But it’s true! I went to the restroom!’ ‘Ve still don’t believe you!’ ‘But…’ ‘But nothing! Ve have film of you in z breakroom! Speak dog! You vere in z breakroom! Ve’re you?’ ‘I stopped on my way back for water! It’s hot up there on the third floor!’ ‘Lair! And ve’ve ways to make you talk!’ And it goes on and on and on!

TheRejects: What TheSASMO?

TheSASMO: So many warehouse employees paint a picture of constant surveillance! A crippling fear of missing targets! Many people view Amazon as a near-magical, clearly maniacal, savage entity that forces its workers with threats of Termination or T to deliver online shopping with amazing speed even at the cost of their health and safety!

TheRejects: WOW TheSASMO!

TheSASMO: All of this’ achievable because of Amazon’s singular focus on speed at its warehouses, no matter the expenditure of people and resources! No matter to flesh and blood human beings who are treated as if they were machines!

TheRejects: WOW TheSASMO!

TheSASMO: Workers clearly state that things like spending time talking to coworkers, going to get a drink, or even taking too long to find a package are billed as Time Off Task or TOT, too much of which leads to penalty points for a worker! Get enough of those and you’re Asses’ or A’s T’d or Terminated by the dreaded terrorists: The HR Hit Squad!

 TheRejects: WOW TheSASMO!

TheSASMO: That combined with security cameras dotting TheAmazon’s Fulfillment Centers or TAFCs and its Airport-Style Security Checks or ASSCs, and other Fanatical Style Mechanisms or FSM which causes workers to feel like ‘robots’ “not” persons! And it’s all in the service of getting those parcels out faster. Furthermore! TheAmazon relentlessly if not ruthlessly pushes all its workers to the brink while portraying its warehouses as ‘such a fun place to work!’

R#7: The happiest place on earth!

R#3: The Magic Online Kingdom!

R#2: Unrighteously so!

TheSASMO: In a bizarre, totally outlandish, drug-induced eccentric, extraordinarily weird statement, a spokeswoman said: ‘Amazon provides a safe and positive workplace for thousands of people across the UK with competitive pay and benefits from day one. We are committed to treating every one of our associates with dignity and respect. We don’t recognize these allegations as an accurate portrayal of activities in our buildings.’

R#2: And the choir responds with!

TheRejects: Bullshit!

R#2: And that’s a wrap for today!

R#7: But I was just starting to have fun!

TheRejects: Work Hard! Have Fun! Make History! Hurrah!

R#2: See you next time!

R#7: They can’t see you dear! Radio! For that matter! They can’t even hear you! Silent radio! Whatever the hell’s that? I don’t know or could give a hairy-rats-ass!

R#2: And that’s, as Warren use to say: ‘Good Night Irene!’

R#7: Hey! I know her!

TheRejects: Quiet!

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To our cherished listeners out there hopefully believing that “our” ‘A Live Silent Radio Hour’ which’s live yet pre-recorded formerly at The Spank the Monkey Café in the heart of downtown Seattle, Washington of the United States of Here’s Still Hoping for the Fifth Aeon to Finally Come and Save Us All Here or USHSHFAFCSUAH in: America which’s quickly Slipping Into Darkness or SID! Hopefully, we’ll be back next time! Who knows? Now listen! I’m Becka better known as Reject # 2 filling in for Producer Only Warren who’s Gone To Ground or GTG! I’m here in what’s known as “Reject Square” where we’re now broadcasting live yet pre-recorded and so many thanks once again to “our” cherished listeners who are anticipating another Episode or E of ‘A Live Silent Radio Hour’! We’re so sorry that you have to live through these nasty “happenings” taking place daily here in America! I mean to say! Really SORRY! But I wish to thank all of you for tuning in once more while again leaving Any Semblance of Rational Thought or ASRT at the door as for the sake of TheBezos: How in the hell can you listen to silent radio? Never understood that one but hey folks! We’re back! (Inspirational Pause!) And please cherished “LISTENERS”, again return next time to hopefully Find-Out-the-Facts or FOFs concerning the nature and cause of our Collective Delusion or CD as we Tell Our Tale or TOT of Misery or M here in a land known as America! Please stay safe and always watch out for those Frenzied, Extremely Agitated Regrettables or FEAR who see their own reflection in the Mirrored Sunglasses or MSs of those who would Un-Naturally or UN ridicule our Blessed Way of Life here on Silent Radio or SR! And please! Make sure to thank TheBezos! And so I’m pretty certain! And Good Night Irene! Whoever “she” is?

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D: Jonathan?

         J: Yes Drew?

         D: I still don’t know where the hell we are?

         J: I still don’t know either Drew but it seems to be getting more and more “spooky” if you ask me!

         D: I think I’m going to cry!

         J: Did you hear that Drew?

         D: Hear what Jonathan?

         J: That sinister music playing in the background!

         D: It’s getting louder Jonathan!

         J: What was that?

         D: Hold me brother!

         J: Look! Look what’s out there!

         D: Oh to TheBezos! We’re doomed!

         J: Is there no hope for the two of us?

         D: Doubtful brother! Doubtful!