Recently there have been more news of the poor working conditions (inhumane expectations to meet targets) and Amazon’s strong opposition against unions. How do you feel working for a company that treats its employees that way? Does it affect you? I hear a lot about Amazon being already soul sucking no matter the role, but the physical labor expectations seem insane to me. It seems like the industrial revolution times which was exactly what unions were formed for. #unions #tech #principles
Don’t believe all you hear. While the media loves to chastise Amazon for their treatment of hourlies, there is so much they’re doing behind the scenes to make it better for employees. Amazon has hundreds of employees that review policies for fairness and privacy of employees that no other company has. They don’t have to be doing it but they are. It’s a much better company than the press portrays.
Smells like BS to me. Is having anti union meetings and spreading propaganda in the warehouses a policy that is pushing for fairness of employees? Have you ever ridden in a delivery truck and considered that when you have 200-300+ packages to deliver, you really don't have time to take a proper break to use the bathroom or eat lunch as a normal worker should? While Amazon could easily reduce the number of packages needed to deliver per driver shift or pick per warehouse worker but they don't? You can literally read tons of accounts from workers about their working conditions. Dismissing their words is no different from saying that people whining about Pip / dev list are just softies and need to shut up and deal with it. I would bet that most of the corporate employees would suffer greatly if they had to do the warehouse shifts themselves.
My experience in AWS for the last 7 years has been excellent, and my observation of hourly employees around me has also been excellent. TLDR; my observations and experience don’t match the “data” here.
How do you feel about minimum wage and employee benefits?
I've been in supply chain for about 10 years, and warehouse work sucks everywhere. What gets me though is that we 100% are in a position to raise the standard but there is no interest or motivation from the company in doing so.
About 4-5 years ago I would have said the same. But in the past few years things have shifted and I can’t agree with this. There’s lots Amazon is doing to make it a better workplace that they weren’t before.
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