it's almost impossible for a unskilled worker to learn some skills that would make him a more valuable employee.
Any job experience is a step up from none. By keeping your eyes and ears open you can learn a lot and if you can demonstrate that by having a coherent conversation about warehouse operations or shipping logistics with another employer you might find yourself with better job prospects eventually.
Re:Amazon's German Workers Strike
by rahimnathwani on Monday December 16, 2013 @08:42PM
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Which place is that? How does shady accounting help the business/owner survive? By evading taxes?
Obliviously. When taxes are unreasonable that's your only option.
And such conditions are created by coercive and socialist governments, not companies like Amazon.
That's where you're wrong. There's one thing that amazon and socialist governments have in common.
They don't give a st about the people.
The government doesn't need to be socialist either it can be a perfectly democratic government that doesn't do anything for its citizens interest and the result would be the same.
Agree with you - they don't give a st about people. But a major difference is that with Amazon (or any company) you have a choice - don't shop with them, don't work for them, convince others to do the same, document their bad-behavior etc.
With a government, there is no alternative choice. And typically socialist governments tend to swing towards totalitarianism as well, depriving their citizens of many other rights and freedoms.
Amazon is a great business but a shitty employer. Not to mention it's almost impossible for a unskilled worker to learn some skills that would make him a more valuable employee. They are reluctant to even hire them permanently not to mention giving them a chance to progress.
It's easy to say that in your position, you have options, not everybody does and may or may not have anything to do with the skill that person has.
I come from a place where it's impossible to get a decent wage whatever your skill level the only way to survive is to do shady stuff or open your own business which more likely then not will have to do some shady accounting in order to survive.