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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by grapeshot on Friday February 03, 2017 @01:34PM (#13562016)
There are plenty of people with degrees working in those warehouses because it's the only thing they can get due to their circumstances and it pays a little better than retail. (I know this because I was one of them until a few weeks ago.)
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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by 110011 on Friday February 03, 2017 @01:51PM (#13562160)
Thank you for the perspective. The reason I find this incredible is also that this statistic does not include seasonal workers, so I made the inference that they chose this job out of lack of alternatives.

Also, what did you major in?

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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by grapeshot on Friday February 03, 2017 @04:38PM (#13563554)
Chemical Engineering. It seems that the only growing industry in the Inland Empire right now is warehouses.
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