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Over 1000 Amazon workers to strike on Black Friday
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In a vacuum it might be awesome. But add in the horrible work environment, and it starts to be less appealing. Slavery-lite should not be accepted.
I worked at Amazon. Maybe certain facilities are possibly like this but it’s complete horseshit from lazy ass employees from what I’ve witnessed.
"Are the work expectations exceedingly high and strenuous?
No, it's the employees that are lazy."
I’m saying I worked in it and witnessed everything first hand. Most people that talk shit about it only know what they’ve read in articles and run with it. Like everything else in the world.
What was it like, and what'd you do?
I worked on the transportation team in their early stages. It was fast paced for sure. It has to be though. It was great learning the ins and outs of trucking and getting my CDL all while being able to be a nerd and code/develop while having downtime in the guard shack.
"it has to be though". I'm sure Amazon told you that, but what would happen if it wasn't? Would the giant multinational corporation really fail if workers were allowed to take pee breaks universally instead of some having to pee in bottles? Would it really fail if workers had an extra 15 minutes of breaks per day? Would it really fail if workers got another 0.0013% of the profits?
Class warfare is real. If you're happy to just listen to your corporate masters, more power to you, just try not to bring everyone else down with you. Some people enjoy longer breaks, less intense working environments, and better pay. Advocate for and with those workers, and then when the protections are in place go pee in a bottle to save those precious few minutes for Amazon, as long as nobody else has to.
Is this first hand experience or article reading? None of what you’re saying applied to the record breaking facilities I worked in. Maybe it did elsewhere but all I’m getting across is I worked in two facilities where this shit wasn’t true at all.
Are you claiming all the articles on this topic are hoaxes and the reports about widespread terrible working conditions are overblown because of your one anecdote? If not, what are you claiming?
Nothing. Enjoy arguing on the internet about things you only read about.
I know several people who have worked at Amazon. So I have second hand experience. Maybe you think only workers of Amazon should have opinions on the topic, but that's necessarily elevating anecdotes to a position they have no place being. You need to understand the difference between a single instance of a job and the general statistical tendency of a job.