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A comment on Amazon to pay full college tuition for its front-line employees. Parent comment

Re:Amazon to pay full college tuition for its front-line emp... by AzzieElbab on Thursday September 09, 2021 @12:01PM (#28471163)
Who cares? If Amazon hires them in different capacity afterwards, it is all good? GM and GE used to do this all the time. I have met engineers who started as track drivers and factory line workers
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Re:Amazon to pay full college tuition for its front-line emp... by leetrout on Thursday September 09, 2021 @12:10PM (#28471265)
I agree completely. That wasn't my point and I hope it is useful for folks beyond climbing the Amazon ladder but knowing friends trying to escape driving a forklift in a warehouse any thing to help is better than nothing.
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