<story><title>MacKenzie Bezos Writes Amazon Review for Jeff Bezos Biography</title><url>http://www.amazon.com/review/R2I0T26SV0ELPP/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saalweachter</author><text>Did anyone else find this section weird:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  In an archive of the thousands of thank you messages written
  to Jeff over the years, a small sampling includes “I just
  wanted to thank you for giving my husband the opportunity to
  work for your company so many years ago and let you know
  that he always spoke kindly and enthusiastically of the
  distribution center, the people and you.” “Having finished
  my shift I thought I would send you a short email to say
  thank you. There is a fantastic team based here and we have
  super support. Our mentors are true Amazon angels providing
  guidance and showing great patience.” “I cried as I read the
  Career Choice announcement on Amazon today. What Amazon is
  doing to help its employees is affecting lives in the most
  meaningful way I can think of. It restores my faith in
  humanity.”
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
I&amp;#x27;m not saying they haven&amp;#x27;t received thousands of thank-yous, but that&amp;#x27;s weird, right?  I&amp;#x27;ve never once considered sending a thank-you to any CEO&amp;#x2F;boss, nor have I met anyone who has.  (Of course, I&amp;#x27;ve also never worked at Amazon--)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clinth</author><text>It might be weird, but I&amp;#x27;m a thank-you letter writer. I wouldn&amp;#x27;t write those exact letters, but I&amp;#x27;ve written similar sentiments.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve written my CEO, because I live in a house I bought with money earned from this job, raising a family of three kids, and appreciate that my enterprise is sustainable. I&amp;#x27;m grateful for my job, the opportunity to do the work I do, and to the people who make it happen.&lt;p&gt;However, I write a half-dozen or so such letters per year. Not just professional: personal, community, and so on. This rate is trending up as I get older. I&amp;#x27;m getting more and more grateful for how our lives all fit together. There are many people working hard toward good ends and probably not being thanked for the good work they do.</text></comment>
<story><title>MacKenzie Bezos Writes Amazon Review for Jeff Bezos Biography</title><url>http://www.amazon.com/review/R2I0T26SV0ELPP/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saalweachter</author><text>Did anyone else find this section weird:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  In an archive of the thousands of thank you messages written
  to Jeff over the years, a small sampling includes “I just
  wanted to thank you for giving my husband the opportunity to
  work for your company so many years ago and let you know
  that he always spoke kindly and enthusiastically of the
  distribution center, the people and you.” “Having finished
  my shift I thought I would send you a short email to say
  thank you. There is a fantastic team based here and we have
  super support. Our mentors are true Amazon angels providing
  guidance and showing great patience.” “I cried as I read the
  Career Choice announcement on Amazon today. What Amazon is
  doing to help its employees is affecting lives in the most
  meaningful way I can think of. It restores my faith in
  humanity.”
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
I&amp;#x27;m not saying they haven&amp;#x27;t received thousands of thank-yous, but that&amp;#x27;s weird, right?  I&amp;#x27;ve never once considered sending a thank-you to any CEO&amp;#x2F;boss, nor have I met anyone who has.  (Of course, I&amp;#x27;ve also never worked at Amazon--)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcutrell</author><text>I absolutely don&amp;#x27;t think people writing thank you notes to their boss is weird. I do this on almost a daily basis via email or text.&lt;p&gt;This block of text does seem weird though - I think it&amp;#x27;s because she was highly emotional while writing. (Completely a guess.) And this particular portion would have likely been the most emotional for her. It&amp;#x27;s not as well composed as the rest of the fairly well-formed critique.</text></comment>