Bezos issued a Fatwa to his employees: OPT OUT of Melania doc for "political reasons" and LOSE YOUR JOB.

[Miles Archer]

Amazon did not allow talent to opt out of working on Melania for political reasons, a new report alleges.

That order came straight from Amazon’s leadership, forcing studio staff to choose between working on an absurdly expensive documentary about Melania Trump or risk losing their jobs, three sources told The New York Times

Such a mandate is perhaps why Rolling Stone reports an eye-popping two-thirds of Melania’s New York crew asked for their names not be added to the film’s credits.

“They were told that the project was mandated by the company’s leadership and that employees could not opt out of working on the film for political reasons,” the Times reported.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/amazons-firm-order-to-employees-on-melania-revealed/

[bdamomma]

1. FU

Bezos

[Trueblue1968]

14. That is not right. Is his demand un constutional ??????

[iemanja]

18. No, because he employs them.

[Bluetus]

35. Not necessarily. I am not a labor lawyer, but,

there might be the basis for a hostile workplace suit.

[meadowlander]

65. Not least because the director has multiple credible accusations of sexual harrassment.

https://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-brett-ratner-allegations-20171101-htmlstory.html

[Bluetus]

70. I'm not sure the previous harassment would be a factor, but I recall

years ago, Land's End required all their employees to attend a speech (on the clock at Land's End offices) by a politician campaigning. I can't remember the details. It might have been W Bush or Dick Cheney. I don't know it this was ever litigated, but there were a lot of angry employees, especially because this betrayed the kind of brand Land's End had developed over the years. I think this debacle happened while the dimwits at Sears owned the company and drove it into the ground.

[Demobrat]

52. No. They choose to work there. He pays them.

Refusing to work is grounds for dismissal.

[NeoTrajan]

55. So, if he demanded they go to his home and scour the toilets ...

They must do that, or they should be fired?

Wow ... You run a tight ship, don't ya?

[iemanja]

67. If it's in their job description.

[Skittles]

91. was there a line about supporting a gold diggin ho?

[iemanja]

95. What do you care if she's a gold digger?

Do you think Trump deserves better?

[Skittles]

99. what does that have to do with anything?

I would not want to be told ON THE JOB I had to support that POS, she is DISGUSTING

[iemanja]

100. She is disgusting by association

and that is Trump. The rest is irrelevant. And you ask why it matters if she's a gold digger? Why, then, did you bring it up? Obviously, it matters to you.

[Demobrat]

88. There are these things called job descriptions.

[Stargazer99]

78. Refusing to attend an event which is not part of work one was hired for is NO reason to lose ones job

and forcing that under the threat of job loss is OUT of expected normal work- damn sick and tired of you wealthy running peoples personal lives. What do you think you are???gods

[thesquanderer]

80. It was not about refusing to attend an event, it was about refusing to work on the film,

when the thing they had been hired for was to work on films.

[Demobrat]

89. I'm not wealthy. Just a person who knows

what corporate video producers do.

[homegirl]

97. Is anyone surprised?

The first reviews of the movie “Melania” are coming in. One unknown critic wrote “I would rather get a Tabasco Sauce and broken glass enema than watch that again.”

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. All the more reasons NOT to order stuff from AMAZON!!

Jeff Bezos is a PIG just like TACO is!

[Ritabert]

6. I never order anything from Amazon.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

8. I have not ordered anything in 2 years.

And had to send something back that I was charged a Restocking feed for an item that they sent me by mistake.

[aggiesal]

12. or subscribe to Washington Post!!! n/t

[Scrivener7]

24. I was completely off Amazon for a few years, and then my union changed our

prescription service to Amazon. I'm bummed. I think I can switch out in 6 months, but till then I get the creeps every time my BP meds come in the mail.

Prescriptions! Now they have their hands in our medications, and have convinced a massive NYC union to use them.

I despair.

[hunter]

61. Yoiks! I'd sooner pay for prescriptions myself than depend on Amazon.

They don't need to know what meds I take.

I deleted my Amazon account and blacklisted their websites when Bezos started kissing Trump's ass.

[OGBuzz]

53. Would anyone be surprised....

if we found out that Jeff Bozos was one of the many Epstein co-conspirators who's names are now being redacted in the Trumpstein files by Trump's DoJ?

[niyad]

56. Not I.

[Rebl2]

73. Not at all

[niyad]

54. Please do not insult our porcine relations that way.

[hlthe2b]

3. Well, that's a lot of lipstick for that pig (the documentary, not Melania--I wouldn't insult pigs with that

comparison." )

[C_U_L8R]

4. What do AMZN shareholders think of that?

Leadership that demands the company lose money? Financial suicide by Trump. That’s not very good governance.
More like total incompetence.

[Gore1FL]

26. Ask anyone with a 401k

Just about anyone with a mutual-fund-based IRA is a shareholder of AMZN.

[ProfessorGAC]

41. Very Likely

Bezos only owns about 1/12th of the stock.
Vanguard, Black Rock, Fidelity & State Street own another 20+%.
That 20% is probably widely distributed among many retirement funds..Then we have the other 71%.

[IA8IT]

5. Bigger dick than his rocket

[Seinan Sensei]

40. Feed him Viagra and he gets taller

[yourout]

7. Forced indoctrination.

[littlemissmartypants]

23. ☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️

[2naSalit]

9. They should have...

All told him to fuck off and then quit.

[lostincalifornia]

10. Sue the piece of garbage. That isn't part of a job description

[thesquanderer]

82. What makes you think it isn't part of their job description?

If Amazon hires you to work on their films, and you refuse to work on one of them, I think they probably have a right to fire you.

[whopis01]

96. It almost certainly is part of the job description

Amazon made the movie. Amazon hires people to work on making and promoting the movies they make. Working on movies would be in that job description for the people in those roles.

[Dave Bowman]

11. Go to hell, Bozo. Glad I never did business with that creep's company.

[BidenRocks]

13. Freedoms just another word

For nothin left to lose... -J. Joplin

[progressoid]

20. Kris Kristofferson on writing that song....

“For some reason, I thought of La Strada, this Fellini film, and a scene where Anthony Quinn is going around on this motorcycle and Giulietta Masina is the feeble-minded girl with him, playing the trombone. He got to the point where he couldn’t put up with her anymore and left her by the side of the road while she was sleeping. Later in the film, he sees this woman hanging out the wash and singing the melody that the girl used to play on the trombone. He asks, ‘Where did you hear that song?’ And she tells him it was this little girl who had showed up in town and nobody knew where she was from, and later she died. That night, Quinn goes to a bar and gets in a fight. He’s drunk and ends up howling at the stars on the beach. To me, that was the feeling at the end of ‘Bobby McGee.’ The two-edged sword that freedom is. He was free when he left the girl, but it destroyed him. That’s where the line ‘Freedom’s just another name for nothing left to lose’ came from.

“The first time I heard Janis Joplin’s version was right after she died. Paul Rothchild, her producer, asked me to stop by his office and listen to this thing she had cut. Afterwards, I walked all over L.A., just in tears. I couldn’t listen to the song without really breaking up. So when I came back to Nashville, I went into the Combine [Publishing] building late at night, and I played it over and over again, so I could get used to it without breaking up. [Songwriter and keyboardist] Donnie Fritts came over and listened with me, and we wrote a song together that night about Janis, called ‘Epitaph’.

[Joinfortmill]

29. Amazing story. Thanks for sharing.

[quaint]

39. Wow, thank you very very very...

[halobeam]

79. What a great story! Thanks for sharing with us all.

[infullview]

15. I think Bezos is sucking Trumps dick

Makes you wonder what tRump is using as leverage. Is Bezos in the Epstein files? Does he leveraging action by the IRS? Threatening to take away Bezos undocumented workers? Etc..

[popsdenver]

19. Along with a massive number

of other "New World Robber Barron Zillionaires".....Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg, Rupert Murdoch, Peter Theil, Waltons, Koch's, MARS family, the list is literally endless.......

It is now, an un-deniable fact, that the Republicans own the best politicians that money can buy, along with all the U.S. Corporations and almost all of the Main Stream Media...........

[biophile]

77. I think they own the WORST politicians money can buy

Not the best…

[popsdenver]

84. Agreed

but the Republicans are for sure using them 100% for maximum gain.......

The Worst Politicians, but the best for them that money can buy......

[BlueKentuckyGirl]

75. I think you're right.

[flashman13]

16. If you can't tell where government ends and business starts - It's FASCISM!

[popsdenver]

22. One dictionary I read years ago

defined FASCISM as the merging of Government and Corporations.......

[eppur_se_muova]

68. That was the definition Mussolini liked to use. nt

[flashman13]

90. Correct. Hitler went a step farther and turned business into an arm of the war machine. Speer became it's overseer.

Everyone profited. Krupp industries are still alive and well today making steel and arms.

[RobertDevereaux]

32. As Ike is reputed to have said...

The "Military-Industrial-Congressional" Complex:
While often termed the military-industrial complex, in early drafts, [the last humane Republican president, Dwight D.] Eisenhower referred to it as the "military-industrial-congressional complex," highlighting the role of politicians, defense contractors, and the military.

[Coventina]

17. DUMP AMAZON!!

I have no hopes that DUers will actually do that, but I'm going to shout it anyway.....

I have, and I don't miss it a bit!!

[young_at_heart]

30. I depend on Amazon because I'm handicapped, but......

I am going to find another way. I can't handle what he said. Stress causes me to break out in Shingles and that is happening because of Bezos....he is truly sickening!

[piddyprints]

31. I have tried very hard to do so.

Many times, when I go to a company's website to buy something, the only place to purchase is Amazon. So I try another brand until I can find something. Sometimes that's not possible. Go to a ratings site to buy something, and they always, always link to Amazon.

I thought eBay would be a safe place to go, but it turns out that many eBay sellers are also Amazon sellers. When I see a package coming from Amazon, I think, "WTF? I avoided Amazon and ended up paying more just to get Amazon anyway?" Of course, that seller goes on my blacklist, but if there's a way to know ahead of time, I'd like to know.

Still, we're doing fairly well avoiding them. It is not easy when your local stores carry squat of what you need.

[progressoid]

66. Yep.

I bought something on eBay recently and it was delivered to my house my Walmart. WTF?

[VTderry]

92. Report that to ebay.

After you bought your item on ebay, that seller just ordered it from Walmart and had it shipped directly to you.

At a minimum, it's "retail arbitrage" which is a violation of ebay policy. At worst, it could be "triangulation fraud" involving stolen credit cards and possibly putting you at risk.

See:
https://community.ebay.com/t5/Buying/I-ordered-from-eBay-and-Walmart-delivered-the-item/td-p/33819791
and
https://community.ebay.com/t5/Buying/Walmart-delivered-Ebay-order-Possible-Triangulation-fraud/td-p/33617488

I know all this because my husband had an ebay purchase arrive from Walmart last month. He'd seen that the item was cheapest at Walmart but we haven't given them a penny in decades. He was happy to find it on ebay at an only slightly higher price. Then we saw the return address.

[GoneOffShore]

43. I've stopped using them for everything but my Kindle.

[wolfie001]

21. Shittiest company in America

That's saying something since we have WakMart. They're the 2nd shittiest now.

[Initech]

93. There's plenty of companies in this country vying for that title!

But yeah since Amazon went full mask off fascist they're among the worst. NVIDIA, Dell, CBS and a whole bunch of others are on that list.

[twodogsbarking]

25. A one day boycott on Amazon would be interesting. Their infrastructure is so huge that one day without sales

would sting a little. A week could shove it in bezos face.

[HipChick]

46. Would have to include streaming services

Netflix is one of their biggest customer, and run on Amazon AWS servers..

[twodogsbarking]

59. Home run.

[piddyprints]

69. Wouldn't hurt a bit.

Most of their money comes from their web services. Companies are not willing to shut that down for a day.

[Joinfortmill]

27. But, he can't make Americans or the rest of the world watch this shit.

[Zelda_Orchid]

28. Billionaires are social parasites

They're a sign that the market economy has failed. They need to be taxed out of existence.

[dalton99a]

33. Bezos is scum.

A sketch of Ann Telnaes’s cartoon that was killed by The Washington Post (Ann Telnaes)

[eppur_se_muova]

71. One of the most direct-to-the-point cartoons ever. Only WWII cartoons re. Hitler could be more direct. nt

[turbinetree]

34. He truly is a little man .............spoken just like true union busting scab that he is...........I would have told

him to pound sand..............

[maxsolomon]

36. Explains why so many refused to be credited as working on it.

But "absurdly expensive" is probably because of money paid to Melanoma - and Ratner.

[Javaman]

37. he's the same nerd that he was in high school that let bullies take his lunch money.

he's just a bigger dick about it now.

[sakabatou]

38. A threat like that should be illegal, if it isn't already

[Botany]

42. Boycott Amazon whenever and wherever possible

Bezos will always be rich but we can hurt his businesses. How much is Amazon dumping into
the Melania, the movie aka A Slovenian Sex Worker Makes it to The Big Time Story?

Good God in Butter rewriting Melania’s history is like Kim Jong Il shooting 50 golfing
with a couple of holes in one too.

[fierywoman]

44. Can they opt out for aesthetic reasons?

[lostincalifornia]

51. Why not opt out for harm to one's health?

[SergeStorms]

45. Let's face it.

Americans demanded this documentary be made! After all, she's one of the most beloved First Ladies to ever.......sorry, I can't keep this up. My brain is telling my fingers to stop this horse-hockey, NOW!

Just more extortion of billionaires from The Donald to keep "Melanie" from telling everyone where the bodies are buried after the Big Orange Pig 🐖 croaks. No "tell-all" books after he's finally, blissfully dead, from which she'd most likely make hundreds of millions.

Bezos is unabashedly the biggest Trump shit gobbler on the planet. 💩

[rubbersole]

47. The billionaire class just keeps poking the bear with a stick.

They are exempt from laws that the little people must live by. And flaunting it. This isn't going to end well.

[Warpy]

48. Ugh. Well, it's probably chockablock full of unintentional humor

and I suspect showings will produce so much laughter that Bezos cancels them midway.

This is the kind of thing that will contribute to Bezos's hearing the nastiest word of all: UNION.

[EX500rider]

49. Not really surprised...if you work for Amazon Studios you make what they tell you to make nt

[RandiFan1290]

50. I'll bet he's in the files.

Nebbish little creep.

[tavernier]

57. He is losing millions on this film.

Appears that Malaria is not for everyone.

[bdamomma]

74. Let him

lose it, such scum.

[Martin68]

58. The Trump approach is not working with the American people no matter who tries it.

FAscist thugs.

[Initech]

60. What a fucking tool.

Hey Bezos, pry your lips off Trump's worthless ass and you can go shove that bullshit movie where it doesn't shine.

And would you have made that documentary for any other first lady? No. Shove it again.

[AverageOldGuy]

62. Try this . . . I did and it was great!!!

Get on the 'net, look up the theaters near you, see which ones are showing "Melania" then check the show times for seats.

I did that to our big multiplex -- Melania starts tomorrow, Jan 30, five showings daily. I checked Saturday, usually a very busy day. One showing had five seats reserved, two had ZERO each, and two had ONE each. And, NO, I did not make reservations.

I am, however, tempted to print a bunch of copies of that famous photo of her lying nekkid on a sofa -- print 'em on legal-size paper -- then quietly post them around the theater entrance.

[ShazzieB]

98. Thanks for the reminder!

I've been meaning to do that but keep forgetting.

[Aussie105]

63. What motivated Bezos to force this film into being?

Melania will go down in history as the first Slovenian sex worker to make it into the White House.

Her history cannot be rewritten, no matter how much some want it to be.

No matter how much money Bezos is prepared to spend on doing that.

[meadowlander]

64. So he's forced women to work with a credibly accused sex offender or lose their job?

Surely that's a breach of the employment relationship somewhere.

[Rebl2]

72. Is opting

out because it looks like a boring movie okay? Just asking.

[Blue Owl]

76. BOYCOTT AMAZON

Let’s let the floor drop out from under this fucking prick

[Johonny]

81. Can you opt out because its a boring trash

Film that will easily be one of the worst rated films this decade.

[radical noodle]

83. He'd have been better off if they'd all refused

It's a bomb.

[OGBuzz]

85. In related news...

The U.K. premiere of "Melania" at London's Islington theater sold 2 tickets.
Here come more tariffs.

[AverageOldGuy]

86. This is how it happened

[AverageOldGuy]

87. Imagine

[hunter]

94. Are Jeff and Melania lovers?

Don't tell the president...