Amazon is handing out 'Thank you' t-shirts to warehouse workers as it cuts pay
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#2Reading 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.
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#3Reminds 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.
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#4Reading 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.
> I feel ashamed owning shares
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#5I’ve said it before and I won’t tire of saying it:
»Gut, das ist der Pfennig! Und wo ist die Mark?«
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ihb2XqEsa4g
The same bullshit is happening everywhere. In the German Bundestag MPs gave standing ovations for care workers. Meanwhile those continue to slave away for pennies, now more precariously than ever, while the next items on the MPs agenda are bailouts for airlines and fucking car manufacturers.
We can’t live without the care people and we don’t want to live without the fulfillment slaves. »Sie schulden euch Glück und Leben.« They should have huge leverage, especially in these times, why will they not organize?
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#6In the meantime in France, unions are holding Amazon accountable.
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#7I’m genuinely interested in what people who think of amazon as an evil company think it should do.
It hardly ever makes a profit. Any profit it makes is from AWS usually.
It is popular because it’s so cheap, which is why people buy there. So really the solutions can only be:
1. Raise prices and consumers suffer 2. Keep wages low and workers suffer 3. Stop existing.
I wonder how many people who complain about amazons working conditions don’t shop there and buy the same product for a higher price elsewhere. I’d guess not many.
Re: Amazon is handing out 'Thank you' t-shirts to warehouse workers as it cuts pay
#8Reminds 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.
Agreed. Where could we get the tax money to make those pay rises from? hmmm
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#9I’m genuinely interested in what people who think of amazon as an evil company think it should do. It hardly ever makes a profit. Any profit it makes is from AWS usually. It is popular because it’s so cheap, which is why people buy there. So really the solutions can only be: 1. Raise prices and consumers suffer 2. Keep wages low and workers suffer 3. Stop existing. I wonder how many people who complain about amazons…
it makes no profit yet Bezos is the richest man in the world by some margin?
How can you buy into that narrative.
The no profit book keeping is just a way to avoid paying tax.
As a shareholder I would rather see them pay fairer wages, be taxed appropriately and have a slower rate of growth.
If the cost of scaling at the speed they scale comes from unethical business practices then the answer is to scale slower, not exploit the worlds poorest and most vulnerable so that Jeff, myself and a load of other privileged capitalists can get even wealthier.
Re: Amazon is handing out 'Thank you' t-shirts to warehouse workers as it cuts pay
#10I’m genuinely interested in what people who think of amazon as an evil company think it should do. It hardly ever makes a profit. Any profit it makes is from AWS usually. It is popular because it’s so cheap, which is why people buy there. So really the solutions can only be: 1. Raise prices and consumers suffer 2. Keep wages low and workers suffer 3. Stop existing. I wonder how many people who complain about amazons…
I do believe that at some point the customer is the one actually that is at fault.
If you buy from amazon, it means that you are accepting what is happening in their warehouses.
Why everyone is looking to save one penny to buy an other yet product that will remain on a shelf after a month?
Be reasonable, buy to a company close by even if it cost a bit more; at least that person will make profits and will come to eat at your restaurant!