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Re:1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee by ekianjo on Friday July 30, 2021 @06:16PM (#28013097)
> then work the person to death so they become dependent on that job.

Any evidence for this? Especially in COVID times when there's massive unemployment checks programs, if that were remotely true nobody would be working for Amazon right now.

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Re:1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee by judge2020 on Friday July 30, 2021 @07:42PM (#28013781)
Most Amazon warehouse employees will attest to how much you're tracked in terms of performance numbers and how taking micro breaks[0] is discouraged or punished. And $15/hr is still generally more than most employment, with the state average maximum individual unemployment being $2042 a month [1] and Amazon paying minimum $2600 a month (in terms of full-time), which might make or break the bank for many Amazon employees.

0: https://ehs.stanford.edu/subtopic/microbreaks

1: https://savingtoinvest.com/maximum-weekly-unemployment-benef...

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Re:1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee by ekianjo on Friday July 30, 2021 @09:05PM (#28014259)
> Most Amazon warehouse employees will attest to how much you're tracked in terms of performance numbers

What is the turnover rate? Because if you hate your job every single day no amount of money will make you stay.

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Re:1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee by judge2020 on Friday July 30, 2021 @11:15PM (#28014947)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/06/15/us/amazon-wor...

> Even before the pandemic, previously unreported data shows, Amazon lost about 3 percent of its hourly associates each week, meaning the turnover among its work force was roughly 150 percent a year. That rate, almost double that of the retail and logistics industries, has made some executives worry about running out of workers across America.

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Re:1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee by ekianjo on Friday July 30, 2021 @11:49PM (#28015115)
then is there any issue? it means workers find better opportunities or better conditions elsewhere.
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Re:1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee by Dylan16807 on Saturday July 31, 2021 @04:09AM (#28016342)
1. No it doesn't.

2. Even if we assume it's true, "better" does not mean acceptable. Imagine a town with no amazon that only has terrible jobs available. Amazon moves in, some people try working there, the job is so awful that they quit and go back to the other jobs. Those jobs are still terrible. There's very much an issue.

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Re:1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee by ekianjo on Saturday July 31, 2021 @05:24AM (#28016642)
for 2. I am not sure why you would blame Amazon if it seems rather like a general specific employment problem in said area. Amazon is not responsible to fix everytjing around them are they?
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Re:1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee by Dylan16807 on Saturday July 31, 2021 @02:31PM (#28020531)
It's not their obligation to fix everything around them. But if amazon's work environment is awful, people quitting it doesn't absolve them of anything. It's still an issue, whether people manage to escape to something better or not.
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