1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee

Post by kortilla » Sat, Jul 31, 2021, 2:55 AM UTC

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> Then they were one of Amazon’s first casualties! They're still in business. I browsed one last month. I was amused that one entire rack, 6 shelves, was filled with "Trump is Evil" books. Somebody at that store doesn't like Trump :-)

I want to quickly emphasize that they are data driven enough to understand that lots of people buy those books because about 51-54% of the country doesn’t and never did like him.

Post by wildrhythms » Sat, Jul 31, 2021, 3:13 AM UTC

underseacables wrote: post #72

I’m torn badly with Amazon. After read The Everything Store, and what has been written all over the place, Jeff Bezos is a massive turd. Employees are horribly treated, wages suppressed, and all sorts of terrible and abusive practices. Then it comes time for me to buy something. I needed a new pair of size 14 sneakers. I drove to Adidas, Footlocker, dicks, and a few other stores but I just couldn’t justify $100 sneak…

Post by judge2020 » Sat, Jul 31, 2021, 3:15 AM UTC

ekianjo wrote: post #360

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Most Amazon warehouse employees will attest to how much you're tracked in terms of performance numbers and how taking micro breaks[0] is discouraged or punished. And $15/hr is still generally more than most employment, with the state average maximum individual unemployment being $2042 a month [1] and Amazon paying minimum $2600 a month (in terms of full-time), which might make or break the bank for many Amazon employ…

> Most Amazon warehouse employees will attest to how much you're tracked in terms of performance numbers What is the turnover rate? Because if you hate your job every single day no amount of money will make you stay.

Post by m4rtink » Sat, Jul 31, 2021, 3:41 AM UTC

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Its all a spectrum but I think in practice the above statement is meaningful. In the USSR the government set ranges of wages that different firms/administrators could give out. I guess in practice you had some choice but not if you had one entity with practically unlimited negotiating power.

There were political differences, though. At least in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic where I grew up. First of all, there were some collectively owned enterprises (cooperatives), which were a tiny bit more independent than directly state owned business. They could deviate a little from the strict, centrally directed price and wage norms etc. Second, even in the state owned sector, there was some diversity among…

Post by ekianjo » Sat, Jul 31, 2021, 3:49 AM UTC

judge2020 wrote: post #415

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> Most Amazon warehouse employees will attest to how much you're tracked in terms of performance numbers What is the turnover rate? Because if you hate your job every single day no amount of money will make you stay.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/06/15/us/amazon-wor... > Even before the pandemic, previously unreported data shows, Amazon lost about 3 percent of its hourly associates each week, meaning the turnover among its work force was roughly 150 percent a year. That rate, almost double that of the retail and logistics industries, has made some executives worry about running out of workers across America.