POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Operation downfall : Re: Operation downfall Server Time
5 Sep 2024 21:26:24 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Operation downfall  
From: Stefan Viljoen
Date: 23 Nov 2009 11:53:36
Message: <4b0abe10@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:

> Stefan Viljoen wrote:
>> Hmm probably thousands, in several countries?
> 
> Seriously?  Amazon hires thousands of people just for the christmas
> season, let alone all year. You really don't fill 43 orders per second
> with
> "thousands" of people. :-)  It also doesn't count Mehcanical Turk. ;-)

Yikes! Ok, I stand corrected.

> Google has 20,000 employees, but with about a 10%-30% turnover each year.

Yikes squared. Its scary - commercial companies that have more employees 
than there are people in many of the countries around here's entire 
government services. 

-- 
Stefan Viljoen


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