Amazon workers say they’re doing “back-breaking” work without paid time off
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#2I’m going to guess they work them up to the limit of part time hours. Then you don’t have to pay for health insurance or paid time off. This is very common in the fast food industry.
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#3Man, Amazon is is one asshole of a company. I wonder what people like Bezos actually thinks about these workers. Whether they are even considered human or not. I guess not.
Re: Amazon workers say they’re doing “back-breaking” work without paid time off
#4Why don't the workers unionize? Oh, because Amazon is run by a bunch of amoral people. The leadership is inhumane.
https://gizmodo.com/amazons-aggressive-anti-union-tactics-re...
https://www.vox.com/2019/3/22/18277322/amazon-fired-warehous...
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/22/how-amazon-is-fighting-back-...
Re: Amazon workers say they’re doing “back-breaking” work without paid time off
#5I’m going to guess they work them up to the limit of part time hours. Then you don’t have to pay for health insurance or paid time off. This is very common in the fast food industry.
But what could we be doing to stop this from happening?
Could it be that we need more granular binning of people between part time to full time work, with increasingly increased full time rights?
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#6I'm curious how they attract people to work for them, if it's common knowledge they are terrible to work for? Is that there just aren't enough other, better warehouse jobs? The few folks I have known who worked in warehouses (non-AMZN ones) generally didn't like the work, but I didn't hear outright horror stories like these.
Re: Amazon workers say they’re doing “back-breaking” work without paid time off
#7I’m going to guess they work them up to the limit of part time hours. Then you don’t have to pay for health insurance or paid time off. This is very common in the fast food industry.
But what could we be doing to stop this from happening? Could it be that we need more granular binning of people between part time to full time work, with increasingly increased full time rights?
Well, the most obvious is to have some sort of universal health care coverage that can be separated from your place of employment.
Re: Amazon workers say they’re doing “back-breaking” work without paid time off
#8I'm curious how they attract people to work for them, if it's common knowledge they are terrible to work for? Is that there just aren't enough other, better warehouse jobs? The few folks I have known who worked in warehouses (non-AMZN ones) generally didn't like the work, but I didn't hear outright horror stories like these.
Because there’s a disconnect in what’s narrated and reality. To a person coming from tech, $15/hr (starting) sounds like a joke but to many that’s a multiple more of what they could get elsewhere (if anything).
So say you’re living in outskirts of Atlanta, it’s definitely a better wage than . Not to mention there are benefits and better conditions (clean environment, stable job etc).
Everyone else is poopooing this from their skewed lenses of a highly paid metropolitan prism.
Re: Amazon workers say they’re doing “back-breaking” work without paid time off
#9I'm curious how they attract people to work for them, if it's common knowledge they are terrible to work for? Is that there just aren't enough other, better warehouse jobs? The few folks I have known who worked in warehouses (non-AMZN ones) generally didn't like the work, but I didn't hear outright horror stories like these.
Because it's a job? Most people don't have the leisure to decide who to work for, and when you're at a time-consuming, expensive job, you don't really have the time or freedom to interview around at other places either.
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#10Man, Amazon is is one asshole of a company. I wonder what people like Bezos actually thinks about these workers. Whether they are even considered human or not. I guess not.
Liabilities in need of replacement by robots.