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The way Amazon treats its employees is disgusting and despicable
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I never have and never will buy anything from Amazon. They're a truly terrible company. I like to go outside to buy things anyway.
Federal labor regulations are moving in the wrong direction right now, for obvious reasons.
We'll have to wait for a new administration to get any momentum there unfortunately.
Thankfully, I think this will be a central policy focus going into 2020 and will be acted on quickly (among other things that will need to be reversed, if possible)
I haven't spent a cent on amazon in 3 months. it feels great to not directly support a slave labor corporation.
Sadly, I see this as well. Almost the entire United States network infrastructure, intelligent services & all utilize AWS. More countries to follow soon if not already. This shit is actually scary.
Amazon is too big of a system to selectively boycott. doesn't mean I don't support it, but somebody will come right behind me and buy twice as much.
As someone in the tech industry though, I would never ever ever work for amazon. Even if the corporate side is like night and day compared to the warehouse. I won't contribute to the system in that way and discourage people who would.
As someone in the tech industry though, I would never ever ever work for amazon. Even if the corporate side is like night and day compared to the warehouse. I won't contribute to the system in that way and discourage people who would.
spread the wealth, Bezos
i was reading somewhere that the Amazon warehouses don't even have bathrooms/restrooms...
i was reading somewhere that the Amazon warehouses don't even have bathrooms/restrooms...
Do you use Netflix? Or any of the companies below?
Isn't this very site hosted on an amazon server or something?
That's why I sued for a specific amount + all attorney fees/legal expenses. I can only come from the perspective of what I did though...so maybe that's not the norm.
We knew 100%, that I was going to win both times, so I spent very little money up-front, and the agreements that were reached included the amount that I wanted + paying all the costs that the attorney piled up. The settlements (paperwork wise) required the offending parties sign off on paying all my fees beyond the initial hiring of my lawyer.
Between the two cases I only spent $1250 total. Pocket change compared to the results. :)
Haha probably. The bigger question is what isn't using AWS these days?
Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are all despicable human beings. it's bizarre to see the left love these anti union, anti worker liberatarian shits.
Makes sense for it to continue further upwards the chain.
I wrote all these sentences because of the Apple thread.
Might be, but in the end it is difficult to avoid a lot of these companies due to how Kraken-like they have their fingers in most stuff.
Each deposition would cost $1000+ just for the court reporter and videographer. Let alone the discovery costs and motion practice. They will paper you to death. It sounds like you had a slam dunk case.
Agreed.
Happy to be able to say that I've stopped shopping with Amazon. I switched the majority of my shopping to Costco, who does a much better job in regards to employee treatment.
Sadly, based on previous Amazon threads, a good number of people on here only care about things until the moment it makes them have to spend more or work harder to shop.
The only other other one I directly give money to is Adobe because I have so much of my work tied up in their applications. And Im low income so I tend to go for the most cost effective options. Generally, its shitty large corps that can offer services so cheaply so its tough to balance out.Do you use Netflix? Or any of the companies below?
At a certain point a company cannot satisfy Wall Street's inanse demand for constant growth without becoming overly greedy.
Sounds like typical warehouse work tbh. The last warehouse job i had years ago was the size of a peanut compared to Amazon and worked your ass off. All for a whopping $9hr.
Yep. Amazon/Walmart/etc. aren't the disease. Wall Street and the government's hostility to workers are the disease and these companies' labor practices are symptoms. I don't see the point of boycotting these individual companies- better to go after the root cause.
Amazon warehouses are operated in similar conditions whether in the US or UK. See articles about British workers facing brutal work conditions.
Company doctors? Holy shit. What's next, having workers live in a company town where they shop at the company store with company-provided scrip instead of actual currency?
The US has gone almost full circle on labor in just the past century, and it's really depressing.
The US has gone almost full circle on labor in just the past century, and it's really depressing.
Of course. They're still testing those beefy Roomba looking sort units. They were also awarded some patents recently on mobile conveyor robots.
The alternative is to step outside and go to a mall or one of the many boutiques found in the city. It is not difficult at all.
Most of the stuff I buy from them is shit I can't easily get or get at all locally. Plus video games for the Prime discount. That's it really, and that's the problem. If I could easily get the non-gaming stuff locally, I wouldn't give them business.
Automation is at the forefront and the best hardware in the company is dedicated to deep machine learning AI in part for automation as well as other purposes. This is true for all the major corps like Amazon/Google/FB/MS/etc...
At the core a company doctor isn't bad to have. Ambulances and stuff can take quite some time to reach your location if you actually need them in an urgent emergency. But obviously they can be used to enforce bias across your workers, which takes away the core benefit they actually should provide.
Yeah, I would need to use an entire day on the weekend to have time to shop for clothes and stuff as you look at various shops, try on, etc. .
Not that I have brought anything from Amazon in years. Guess I will buy some cheap ear pads for my headphones soon but you can't find these in any local shop, so. =x
I'm surprised others are surprised. This is how a lot of companies think about their workers. They don't think of them as human beings.
This being a very severe case of companies not giving a shit.
This being a very severe case of companies not giving a shit.
Are H&M and other companies at malls treating their warehouse employees better?
That doesnt sound legal tbh. Usually there are regulations requiring bathrooms at residences and workplaces.
Is the outrage mainly that they are treating domestic workers this way? Because I'm fairly sure even if companies don't have big warehouses here where they treat domestic workers like trash, most large companies will have operations or products in other countries where they do.
i'm still puzzled why everyone was up in arms (or at least I thought they were) about Walmart 10-15 years ago yet Amazon got a free pass. I guess the convenience and the 2 day shipping makes people look the other way. I've pretty much stopped buying on Amazon unless if it's really out of the way (eg a store that has whatever I need is more than 1 hour away) although that doesn't happen very often. That and the "great' customer service they have while they treat their warehouse employees terribly.