No, Amazon is providing an absolutely critical service in this time.
Amazon: Staff told to work overtime as virus spikes demand
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#22Earlier 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.
I mean, you are on where you are, Most people here are all about "entrepreneurship", adore Bezos, Kalanick, Musk, "disruption", despise unions by a large majority, believe in "the right to work" and care very little about menial worker conditions and class warfare. You'd be on another sort of forum you'd hear a very different tune. So it is to be expected. Be smart bind your time and then s*bvert.
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#23Most people during the depression wouldn't have complained about getting paid to work too many hours.
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#24> Amazon said it would increase hourly wages by $2 in the US, £2 in the UK, and €2 in Europe. The company said it expects the pay rises expected to cost it more than $350m (£285m).
Seems like they could afford to pay them more.
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#25> Amazon said it would increase hourly wages by $2 in the US, £2 in the UK, and €2 in Europe. The company said it expects the pay rises expected to cost it more than $350m (£285m). Seems like they could afford to pay them more.
They're also likely making more now than before as more people switch to online shopping.
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#26I 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…
What job security? If a drawn out recession develops and is truly “rough,” warehouse workers will simply be let go. There are few jobs with less job security than warehouse work.
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#27I 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…
> I doubt Amazon warehouses represent a significant transmission vector
Well, we know that COVID-19 can survive up to 24 hours on cardboard. That actually gives a simple way to avoid outgoing spread: make sure items don't begin shipping, or don't leave the truck, for at least 30 hours from packaging.
It means no 2-day shipping, but I think even "fast" shipping times are at something like a week for most people right now, so that's not much of a problem.
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#28okay but they're only raising wages by $2. It's disgusting. Jeff Bezos makes millions of dollars an hour.
no bootlicking responses please
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#29No, Amazon is providing an absolutely critical service in this time.
Wal-Mart, Sears, Costco, target, dollar general, Sam's Club, etc could do the same thing. FedEx, ups, and USPS aren't beholden to Amazon. Likewise, how hard would it be for grub hub and the like to detail their drivers to make last mile deliveries from local stores? I'm serious. Is it 1000 work hours or 10,000,000? Hell if I get laid off I'll need work and slinging boxes out of my suv is as easy as it gets while providing a valuable service in a crisis.
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#30So 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'd rather have autarky than a global supply chain, but good work none the less.