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>>claude+(OP)
The treatment of warehouse workers and of people with different non office jobs is a strong reason why I will never work at a place like Amazon or Walmart.

Glad to see some people sticking up for each other in these times especially.

>>Negati+Q7
I've cancelled any and all memberships, subscriptions, etc. with Amazon and anything they own, and I'm no longer ordering anything from them. It's completely unacceptable to treat workers this way, even if Bezos weren't the richest person on earth. Which he is! So on top of treating people like disposable garbage, he controls a plurality of the world's resources and refuses to mobilize any of them to help his workers.

>>danali+nc
Almost every business in the developed world relies on warehouse workers and pickers. Any manufacturer that sells parts or replacement parts relies on pickers. Every grocery store chain or department store chain relies on warehouse workers and pickers.

Small outlets rely on distributors that rely on warehouse workers and pickers.

Just about everything people use, eat, ride, drive, or wear relies on warehouse workers.

Most non-Amazon warehouse workers are treated worse and paid less than Amazon employees.

If you hate Amazon so be it, but hating them for the way they treat their warehouse workers and pickers is not rational unless you hate just about every modern business equally.

>>pnw_ha+Rf
> Most non-Amazon warehouse workers are treated worse and paid less than Amazon employees.

I've worked in a couple warehouses and have a lot of friends and colleagues who have, too (I never worked for Amazon, but a lot of said friends and colleagues did). The consensus is that Amazon's treatment of its warehouse workers is about as bad as it gets. There are plenty of warehouses that take employee safety seriously, that pay well with decent benefits, that allow their employees to take restroom breaks instead of forcing them to resort to pissing in bottles at their pack stations (seriously, Amazon, what the hell?), that put at least some semblance into temperature control (as difficult as it may be to do in a large building like a warehouse) and that overall treat their employees like human beings instead of machines.

It's good to be skeptical of the treatment of workers as a rule, but there are definitely different circles of Fulfillment Hell, and working for Amazon's pretty damn close to the inner-most of those circles. Amazon does pay better than average, but there are apparently few companies that treat their workers worse (at least in the US).

>>yellow+ik1
I used to do employee-side employment law, once I had a non-Amazon picker client, he was getting jacked around for exercising his FMLA (Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993) rights, ultimately getting fired under the cover of a riff.

I did a lot of research about the 'picker industry' for that case. What a nightmare job. I can't imagine having to work somewhere like that with all the rules, quotas, bully leadership, favoritism, etc., worse than the Army.