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Re:Amazon workers say they’re doing “back-breaking” work wit... by blacksmith_tb on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @07:03PM (#21758178)
I'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.
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Re:Amazon workers say they’re doing “back-breaking” work wit... by whb07 on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @07:37PM (#21758381)
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 <insert terrible low skilled labor job>. 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.

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Re:Amazon workers say they’re doing “back-breaking” work wit... by Jasper_ on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @07:42PM (#21758402)
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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Re:Amazon workers say they’re doing “back-breaking” work wit... by worldling on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @09:24PM (#21759009)
It's called "poverty." Poverty is the reason people work for them
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Re:Amazon workers say they’re doing “back-breaking” work wit... by 9HZZRfNlpR on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @09:01PM (#21758892)
Because tons of people do difficult and dirty jobs, that is how the world works around you. I'm on 100% side of the workers but people having cozy office jobs are simply disconnected with the reality.
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Re:Amazon workers say they’re doing “back-breaking” work wit... by blacksmith_tb on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @01:12PM (#21765126)
Right, but the reporting at least suggests Amazon is worse than comparable back-breaking warehouse work - is it just that shitty treatment by management at other warehouses isn't in the news, or are they actually different?
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