Amazon is handing out 'Thank you' t-shirts to warehouse workers as it cuts pay

Post by chadcmulligan » Sat, May 16, 2020, 11:29 AM UTC

netsharc wrote: post #76

ccthr wrote: post #2

Reading this makes me thing I should divest. I feel ashamed owning shares in a company that thinks 20 hours unpaid time off a quarter is reasonable.

It's getting harder and harder to participate in the modern world for me. So far I've deleted my accounts on Uber (because of the harassment reports) Airbnb (because they don't give a fuck about scams), and last, Twitter (because they were enabling Nazis, and continuing to use Twitter is basically endorsing Twitter in my eyes). But the majority of the world seems to just shrug and are fine with the terrible behaviour…

Post by wffurr » Sat, May 16, 2020, 11:31 AM UTC

deadgunslinger wrote: post #15

partyboat1586 wrote: post #3

Reminds me of the weekly clapping for the NHS here in the UK when what they really need is a pay rise and PPE supplies. Sometimes thank you is not enough. In the case of Amazon this seems much more sinister and cult like. I struggle to believe that any of the warehouse workers buy into it.

Do you believe permanently raising wages to offset black swan events such as the COVID-19 epidemic is a wise move? What about the next black swan event? Are they going to be paid enough then or they'll need a pay rise again? Healthcare professionals are paid much more compared to the average UK citizen. Especially doctors, the average pay (100k pounds) is in the 2% of the earners. Emigrant doctors couldn't even dream…

Post by TheOtherHobbes » Sat, May 16, 2020, 11:35 AM UTC

makomk wrote: post #78

tsimionescu wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The COVID-19 epidemic is not a black swan event. It is a foreseeable event with a computable probability of happening. Epidemics are recurring events throughout human history, including in the present day. Sure, the recurrence is low, especially for global pandemics, but you can be almost absolutely sure that within the next 100 years there will be another one. In fact, even in the black swan book, they are explicitl…

Here's how this would go. The UK government did have epidemic plans, including a stockpile of PPE. Here's how the BBC described that stockpile: "Coronavirus: UK failed to stockpile crucial PPE". Of the four items that it complains were missing from the stockpile - gowns, visors, swabs and body bags - two (gowns and swabs) were ones that the government didn't expect to need for the epidemics it was planning for, the v…

Post by econcon » Sat, May 16, 2020, 11:42 AM UTC

hnhg wrote: post #73

econcon wrote: post #37

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Germany also imported farm labor from Romania and cramped them in airplanes without any social distancing. Meanwhile I hear lots of Germans don't really work and still get to live high quality life. I am here suggesting that Germany only cares about its own citizens as they help Germany enable control over capital and means of production, including technology financing, adminstration at the same time it doesn't care…

I don't know where you get your information from but it's largely fantasy. Perhaps you should spend some time in Germany getting to know it. Then you might also find the implication that Germans are lazy and getting foreigners to do their work for them laughable.

Post by IceDane » Sat, May 16, 2020, 11:50 AM UTC

espadrine wrote: post #61

The title is purposefully misleading. Amazon is not handing out ‘Thank you’ T-shirts to its warehouse workers. It is handing out “Thanks to you, we will deliver” T-shirts to its fulfillment associates. It is a societal statement on their power dynamics, not a hypocritical act. Amazon wants to be seen as exploitative today, because it will morally justify the layoffs tomorrow once all this is automated away.