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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (107618)	8/29/2000 11:35:24 AM
From: H James Morris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

>This latest move by Amazon.com aims to leverage India's high-quality and cost-effective customer care professionals. Glenn, actually this makes sense. We outsource a lot of our programming to India now. You can pay $100 ph here or get it done in India for $10ph. So this is a sign that Bezos is cutting costs. Btw I own stock in a local company here called Leap Wireless...look at what they've just done.:-( >Jill has a way of raking in jack. Jill Barad, that is -- the deposed chief executive of Mattel. Yesterday, she was named to the board of San Diego's Leap Wireless International. When she headed Mattel, she got absurdly high stock options, says Graef Crystal, executive compensation columnist for Bloomberg News. After the stock plunged 57 percent and she was sacked, she was awarded $50 million, mostly because of the ridiculously high pay package she received in 1997 when awarded the post. "She was a failed performer, grossly overpaid," Crystal says. "If she gets on to the compensation committee (at Leap), watch out for the pay of the chief executive."