Amazon: The online Walmart (employees, 2013, degrees, degree)
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Amazon has been in the media as of late for its work complaints. Many people who who order through Amazon rarely if ever think about the logistics and man power between their purchase and delivery. Here's a documentary about the working conditions at Amazon warehouses. This is in the UK, but similar reports have came from US employees.
Very strange. I grew up in a town with an Amazon Shipping/Logistic Center and it was all the rave. At least in my teens and young adult years, everyone was trying to get a job there and those that had the jobs loved them. All I ever heard from people I've known working at Amazon was that the company had great pay, good benefits, and good scheduling/time off. Entry level jobs were paying $12-15 an hour min. when minimum wage at the time was $7 a hour in our town. This was for the low entry packing and picking jobs as well. They were essentially paying near double what the same jobs at other companies were paying. I heard even better from those with higher up jobs in management or directing positions.
In regards to the video, it just has a very whiny tone to it... I worked landscaping jobs where I on my feet mowing and weedwhacking for 12 hour days. Sure I was beat, but it was a job. Some people enjoy jobs where you are constantly moving as well for the physical activity.
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From what I have heard the Amazon shipping employees here like it because it's easy work at better pay than many harder jobs, and degrees are not required. Maybe it varies by location, we are close to the headquarters in Seattle.
From what I have heard the Amazon shipping employees here like it because it's easy work at better pay than many harder jobs, and degrees are not required. Maybe it varies by location, we are close to the headquarters in Seattle.
QFT.
Heck- I'm dying trying to get a job at corporate in Seattle.
Its all the rage to bash Amazon now and compare them to WAL*MART, but the analogy is not a valid one.
Amazons fulfillment center model is very different than the WAL*MART store business model.
Too many differences to go into here, but briefly, the reason WAL*MART will continue to be the most evil corp in the world is what they do outside of their declasse establishments. That is, using money to leverage everything from local zoning and land use laws, to bully locals who protest, and all the way up to forcing manufacturers to build cheaper products and buying anti-worker labor laws from the Supreme Court. Ok, so Amazon might not have Skittles in their vending machine or working there remind people that shocker: warehouse jobs are tuff, but they arent even in the same universe when it comes to just doing bad, bad stuff to millions and millions of people.
By calling Amazon the Online Walmart, are you trying to point out that Amazon is being lambasted with half-truths and lies in the same way that Walmart is? Or was there some other comparison being made?
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