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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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Post by jschwartzi »

asdfasgasdgasdg wrote: post #18
natalyarostova wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(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.

Yeah I'd be the first guy to take a crap on Amazon, but you're right about this. We need a functioning supply chain or we'll have civil unrest soon and having a company taking care of that at a time when nearly everything else is closing is good. I also really appreciate the few stories of them cracking down on profiteers since resource scarcity is a big part of why people feel stressed out right now.

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

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Post by huffmsa »

jirdperson wrote: post #26
CivBase wrote: post #19

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…

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.

Amazon's delivery network is almost to the point of being a public utility.

It's not going anywhere.

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

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Post by makecheck »

Hopefully they are also putting in strong guards to ensure that these extra shipments truly are life-saving supplies.

My worry is that (if local store shelves are any indication) they’re just shipping paranoid people 800 rolls of toilet paper. And it’s terrible that warehouse employees will be basically strained to the breaking point to make up for selfishness and uneducated masses.

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

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Post by fortran77 »

natalyarostova wrote: post #13
Kunigaikstis wrote: post #3

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.

Oh really? You're selling contaminated improperly packaged medical supplies at 10x - 100x the original price.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETU-_paU0AIjwnK?format=jpg&name=...

World-class my ass.

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

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Post by traskjd »

Red_Leaves_Flyy wrote: post #29
ouid wrote: post #21

No, 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 prov…

“FedEx, ups, and USPS aren't beholden to Amazon”

You might have missed the memo there.

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Post by djannzjkzxn »

crooked-v wrote: post #27
CivBase wrote: post #19

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…

> 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…

Everything I’m buying on Amazon now has delivery dates four days or more out, whereas in normal times it’s one or two days. Maybe they are quarantining packages. Or they could just be backed up due to increased demand.

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Post by djsumdog »

crooked-v wrote: post #27
CivBase wrote: post #19

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…

> 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…

> Well, we know that COVID-19 can survive up to 24 hours on cardboard

Do you have a source for that? Nicholas Christakis (John Hopkins MD, infectious disease specialist) said on most surfaces, SARS-cov2 (the virus, COVID-19 is the disease) can survive an hour. He did mention it depends on the environment (it would only survive a few minutes on copper surfaces for example), so is cardboard able to hold the virus along longer? Is there data on this?

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Post by op00to »

crooked-v wrote: post #27
CivBase wrote: post #19

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…

> 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…

“Survive” “viable”. Do these terms means if you touch a box and then touch your face you’re done, or only that the rna found was not degraded to the point that it was recognizable?
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