News, Pitfall of Working for Amazon: Mental Illness? (employee, work, agency)
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It's just about that most wonderful time of the year: for holiday shoppers, and for Amazon, which CNN last month reported would be hiring 70,000 seasonal workers to beef up the staffing at its more than 40 US fulfillment centers. Last year, thousands of these workers were converted to full-time employees, making it a good gig if you can get it, right? Not according to a BBC investigation, which had an undercover reporter work the night shift in a UK Amazon warehouse.
This doesn't surprise me at all. There is a massive Amazon fulfillment center in the city where I live and a local staffing agency has been flooding the TV stations with ads about seasonal jobs. I have heard horror stories about this place from former workers. The physical demands are above and beyond even for the most fit person, the individual searches of each employee when they leave the premises, the unbelievably strict attendance and on-time policy.....the staffing agency will hire 40 and about 10 will actually make it through the holiday season.
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