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Re:Amazon snubs French free delivery ban with one-cent charge by Malarkey73 on Saturday July 12, 2014 @10:42AM (#8024644)
They are exceptionally poorly paid and insecure. Here in the UK most of them are on benefits. Effectively my taxes are subsidising their profits.
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Re:Amazon snubs French free delivery ban with one-cent charge by pling on Saturday July 12, 2014 @10:51AM (#8024679)
As someone in the UK, I'm quite happy for amazon to provide me with low cost items on this basis. The tax is fixed rate VAT here in the UK so everything I buy from a tax dodge means I'm effectively getting a small rebate against my nearly £3375 a month (including income tax, NI and VAT) contribution to the state every month versus spinning another 20% into VAT.

Then when I snuff it, capital gains time...

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Re:Amazon snubs French free delivery ban with one-cent charge by jessaustin on Saturday July 12, 2014 @02:14PM (#8025317)
They are exceptionally poorly paid and insecure.

So you'll be happy when they're all replaced by robots? This is Amazon, so that's going to happen fairly soon.

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Re:Amazon snubs French free delivery ban with one-cent charge by oh_sigh on Saturday July 12, 2014 @11:16AM (#8024758)
Well, the people who work in the fulfillment centers are poorly paid. The software engineers, managers, and other employees that work within the organization are generally paid very competitively with companies like google etc.
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Re:Amazon snubs French free delivery ban with one-cent charge by merrua on Sunday July 13, 2014 @07:29AM (#8027133)
The technical side in Amazon also report being under staffed and highly stressed comparied with google/apple etc.
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Re:Amazon snubs French free delivery ban with one-cent charge by baddox on Saturday July 12, 2014 @01:18PM (#8025125)
Your taxes (as well as mine) are subsidizing the profits of a heck of a lot of firms.
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Re:Amazon snubs French free delivery ban with one-cent charge by philwelch on Saturday July 12, 2014 @01:52PM (#8025250)
If they were unemployed, certainly they would be collecting even more benefits. If anything Amazon is subsidizing your tax burden.
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