Re:Amazon warehouse workers 'peed in bottles' fearing punish...
by awat on Monday April 16, 2018 @05:36PM
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Piggybacking on what you were saying I don’t disagree from a purely business sense. But I find it ironic society seems to have this constant droning fear about actual robots becoming sentient and dissenting but doesnt fear the droves of these sudo-robots who are already able bodied and sentient and being actively antagonized (piss in bottles, etc) to dissent.
Re:Amazon warehouse workers 'peed in bottles' fearing punish...
by snoman on Monday April 16, 2018 @04:03PM
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> A good engineer retained can often deliver 2X to 10X the value of a new hire. The company treats them them [sic] accordingly.
The turnover rate is generally less than 2 years.
Re:Amazon warehouse workers 'peed in bottles' fearing punish...
by sudhirj on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @12:40AM
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We’re mostly talking about large comp packages here, and I’m guessing they all vest over 4 years? I’m not saying devs are particularly pampered, just that there’s no comparison with the warehouse workers.
Warehouse employees are cost centers. They're replaceable pseudo-robots that are filling in the gaps until the engineers mentioned above finish building the real ones. A new worker at a cheaper rate is objectively better than retaining one, because the number of boxes packed tends to increase inversely proportional with age and tenure. The company treats them accordingly.