Listen up! Nasty new nickname for Amazon workers ...interesting
The conflict has now reached the point of name-calling. SEATTLE -- There's growing friction in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood, focused on the influx of Amazon workers
The thousands of people who work at Amazon are sometimes called Amazoids or Amazonians, helped by some yellow flyers posted on light poles, but now there's a new name spreading
Am-holes. The definition of an Am-hole is outlined in a quiz on the flyer (which you can see by clicking here), but generally pegs employees as uppity snobs
". "Some of us were here years ago," said Mike Gwynn, 000 plus extra people in the middle of the street all the time, "Now there's 10, who works in South Lake Union
For some at the mega-company, the name brings a chuckle
An Amazon employee, "I think this is probably from someone who lived here a long time ago and does not like change too much, " said Patricio Harrington
Since Amazon moved in, South Lake Union has transformed -- new restaurants, new stores, new everything. Just ask any eatery around lunchtime
". "They're why were busy and I love them for it. " said Jame Fehskens who delivers for Jimmy John's Sandwiches, "Amazon is a really good thing in our neighborhood, they're the biggest buyer of Jimmy Johns right now. I even said, 'Thank God for Amazon. Com at Thanksgiving this year
The flyers were removed by Tuesday evening
