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Amazon: Staff told to work overtime as virus spikes demand

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Re: Amazon: Staff told to work overtime as virus spikes demand

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Or Amazon has an important role in the new Virus Economy, and is stepping up to do its part.

Once again at the expense of the worker.

What's worse, stores having mass of people going in and out or a restricted set of workers they can try to keep apart?

Right now, yes those workers are at greater danger than not working (and maybe they deserve extra pay here) but I would argue that for the public good Amazon better than in person stores at the moment.

Re: Amazon: Staff told to work overtime as virus spikes demand

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or Amazon has an important role in the new Virus Economy, and is stepping up to do its part.

Once again at the expense of the worker.

People ordering off of Amazon prevents them from having to go to brick and mortar stores where they could also spread or catch the virus. This includes the elderly who are in the highest risk groups for the disease. Most if not all Amazon warehouse workers are significantly less likely to be in high risk groups, meaning they are much more likely to have milder symptoms if they do catch it.

Sure it sucks for those who work for Amazon, ideally they should be given a choice, but people are not going to stop buying things if Amazon is way behind and orders are looking at a week or two shipment time. They'll go out in public to stores full of other people. This seems like the lesser evil of two bad options to me.

Re: Amazon: Staff told to work overtime as virus spikes demand

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So you're saying Amazon has a toxic work culture? What a surprise

(Disclaimer: I work at Amazon).

We have a world class supply-chain. This is a moment when the US, and the world, 100% must have a functioning supply chain. I'm proud of the work we're doing to keep things running under unusual stress.

Re: Amazon: Staff told to work overtime as virus spikes demand

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So you're saying Amazon has a toxic work culture? What a surprise

So you are expecting to go thru a crisis and things to run by themselves? Essential parts of supply chain and healthcare are working overtime for the sake of us all.

Re: Amazon: Staff told to work overtime as virus spikes demand

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So you're saying Amazon has a toxic work culture? What a surprise

(Disclaimer: I work at Amazon). We have a world class supply-chain. This is a moment when the US, and the world, 100% must have a functioning supply chain. I'm proud of the work we're doing to keep things running under unusual stress.

as you should be.

Re: Amazon: Staff told to work overtime as virus spikes demand

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So you're saying Amazon has a toxic work culture? What a surprise

(Disclaimer: I work at Amazon). We have a world class supply-chain. This is a moment when the US, and the world, 100% must have a functioning supply chain. I'm proud of the work we're doing to keep things running under unusual stress.

I don't work at Amazon, but I'm incredibly grateful for its existence right now and the work it is doing. I can't help but think that almost everyone in the American populace feels likewise, except some politically motivated grousing from certain groups.

Re: Amazon: Staff told to work overtime as virus spikes demand

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I doubt Amazon warehouses represent a significant transmission vector and what little threat there may be is largely outweighed by the good these warehouses are doing to help with the situation.

I also doubt Amazon employs many elderly or high-risk individuals as warehouse workers. I also doubt they would refuse to make exceptions for those workers.

Right about now, I'd just be happy for the job security because the coming recession is going to be rough.

Re: Amazon: Staff told to work overtime as virus spikes demand

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So you're saying Amazon has a toxic work culture? What a surprise

(Disclaimer: I work at Amazon). We have a world class supply-chain. This is a moment when the US, and the world, 100% must have a functioning supply chain. I'm proud of the work we're doing to keep things running under unusual stress.

Claimer* , or disclosure*.

But other than that, agreed, good job; I saw earlier about not restocking non-essentials, to focus on higher demand for less discretionary items, that's bound to cause some frustration, but it's good to see - since those are presumably the less profitable lines too.

Also in excellent Corporate Social Responsibility this week is LVMH, reconfiguring perfume production lines to produce hand sanitiser for France, for free.

Beats 'Hey Italy, have a free trial of our SaaS product' [0] hands down.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22535402

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