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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by maxxxxx on Friday February 03, 2017 @12:41PM (#13561558)
A lot of the new workers probably work in warehouses where they are basically a kind of more intelligent robot. I know a guy who worked in one and you can learn that job in a few days. It's harder to maintain the required pace for long though.
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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by tfryman on Friday February 03, 2017 @01:00PM (#13561730)
I worked at a warehouse during college on the weekends (3 12-hour shifts Fri-Sun) and on day one was assigned to the conveyor line where I used a broom to free stuck packages and then a while later got "promoted" to gift wrapping where I stayed until I left when I got my degree.
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