She looks 65 but is only 46 YEARS OLD! I know a 19-year old dude who thinks the job is a piece of cake. I think these articles are just the media trying to show that "Trump Era" jobs are cruel and oppressive.
Posted on 12/01/2019 10:14:04 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Amazon: Sears Roebuck computerized.
She looks 65 but is only 46 YEARS OLD! I know a 19-year old dude who thinks the job is a piece of cake. I think these articles are just the media trying to show that "Trump Era" jobs are cruel and oppressive.
Hey look...if they don’t like their job there’s 6 million job openings across the nation they can go to.
first off, a warehousing and shipping job is bound to consist of finding, carrying, sorting, packing lots of stuff
second, if its a company which (like Amazon) operates on very short turnaround, shipping schedules... then there’s gonna be a lot of rushing in the warehouse (meaning, pressure on the workers)
Therefore, I would not choose such a job.
But, as long as the company is not abusive and if it operates in a safe manner....so that the employees are not injured, then it should be considered honest employment for those wishing to work there. Blaming Amazon because the job feels rushed or pressured is a bit like blaming McDonalds because the job includes breathing grease fumes.
The problem or downside... was evident before signing up for the job.
I do not have any love for Amazon on a number of fronts.
Just saying that jobs can sometimes just not agree with a person, is all. Not criticizing the individual. Just saying that.. as long as a job is safe and workers are not abused.... if you don’t like one job, just go get another one is all.
Many of us have done this, some of us have had to do it several times in our lives. Its not necessarily anyone’s fault. Its just a process of finding a job that agrees with you. I bet that,.. in today’s job-rich economy, this individual can find a job they like!
So long as the employees stay employed by Amazon they have no complaint. They have accepted the system as it is if they have been there longer than a week.
I had a summer job in 1979 where I unloaded trucks and stowed item on the shelves. "Picking" for orders was a union job. I could only do it when there was nobody in the union available.
Trailer trucks would back up to the warehouse, the items were packed in tight from the factory across town. Nothing was on pallets. Every item had to be inventoried. Breakage recorded. Everything came out and then onto pallets. From the pallets driven to the shelves for stacking.
Nothing in the warehouse was in order by part number. All of one type of item were together, but similar part numbers could be on the other side the building. The full time guys knew where everything was.
Wish I was born 30 years later. This would have been the perfect job for me after the military.
I’ve been in three Amazon warehouses, one had swamp coolers for cooling, one had AC and the third had only roof vents.
I’d like to see these people work some of the jobs I did between school yrs. Try stacking hot manhole covers all day fresh out of the kiln. I lost something like 17 lbs the first week I worked there. Paid better than anything else at the time. I made something like $2.65 an hour.
A friend’s daughter was recently hired at Amazon. My friend told me her daughter is already moving up (she’s a hard worker, raised on a farm).
Articles like this remind me of the articles about Walmart that are probably written by pro-union employees who are frustrated that the union can’t get their foot in the door at these businesses with huge amounts of employees (union dues producers)....
What are you voting for?
I have been in over fifty, worked installing equiptment. All the ones I have been in were built from the ground up, and contained the KIVA robots she described. That is the style I help build. 100% are climate controlled.
I enjoy the work, but I am a highly trained free spirit type. I help create jobs for those who smoked dope while I studied.
Now they stuff boxes for 12 to 17 an hour because that is all they can do. The computers do the thinking for them. Perhaps they should have developed that for themselves.
I could not do their job, I would go nuts, but some like it. You do your hours, you take home the check. Low responsibility, just show up and stuff boxes.
Walgreens is a lot harder work, but to each his own. Some people just gotta bitch. When it comes to picker jobs, Amazon is the cushiest I have seen. And I see ALOT.
I help build those places across country. It’s a job...
like stop feeding the beast. anyone who whines or dislikes a company but through various channels supports them is part of the problem.
I answered an add for a delivery position from 7 in the morning til 5 at night,
Took two days of training class where we were taught the Amazon ways, mostly defensive driving and told under no circumstance can we fight back if assaulted while delivering.
Then after passing their initial courses I was given an assignment to work from 12 noon til 10 at night, 4 days a week.
Problem is Fort Pierce Florida is a particularly Black neighborhood. Some really bad areas.
No way will I go deliver rubber dog poop at 9 or 10 at night to places I would NEVER go on my own.
Amazon lied to me.
I did not go back.
Hey Jeffy, F.U.
I've analyzed this many times and I cannot understand why they have people doing this particular job ("stower"). Even if the thesis is you have to put human eyeballs on it there to prevent crap from entering the system you'll still have a problem because humans also come with an error rate that goes up non-linearly when you treat them badly. And managing humans like machines is an awful thing to do to people.
“What are you voting for?”
None of your business. Continue to be the bootlicker of corporations like Amazon that use people as cattle.
Well...nice to meet you too!
I run a few head...And I'm a LLC....
I'd guess you don't like me...
What do you do for a living?
I run a few head...And I’m a LLC....
I’d guess you don’t like me...
What do you do for a living?
I was not referring to all companies, just ones like Amazon who use and abuse employees and treat them like expendables. Amazons horrible treatment of their workers is well known. In my business of employee benefits I see this more and more often. The latest practice of companies hiring employees as 1099’s or temp so no benefits. We are on a race towards the bottom. Republicans wonder why the American people are heading towards Bernie and wanting socialism.
Oh, my wife and I own 3 companies lest you think I am some business hating liberal. . Our fixed cost just to open the doors each month is almost $100,000 Payroll, health insurance, utilities, property tax etc for all 3 companies.
We know what it takes to run a business, the gov’t regulations and taxes. That being said we treat our employees like human beings and we have very little turnover.
Oh, my wife is a conservative, gun owning, GMC pickup truck owner who owns her own horse and small animal veterinarian practice of 23 years and 32 years total in the business
And does AMZ force anyone to work for them?
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