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Amazon staff blast 'intolerable' conditions: (tr)
Daily Mail ^ | Nov 26, 2017 | ANDREW LEVY

Posted on 11/26/2017 11:23:05 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom

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To: MD Expat in PA

No job should be beneath anyone, and nobody should look down on any person for doing honest work. Garbage men and fast food workers are just as honorable as doctors and CEOs.


61 posted on 11/27/2017 9:29:48 AM PST by Route797
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To: miss marmelstein
If Amazon is forcing people to work without air conditioning, they should be held accountable. It’s as simple as that.

A lot of people work without air conditioning; construction workers, road pavers, roofers, in steel mills…etc.

No one to my knowledge is forcing anyone to work for Amazon. If they don’t like the working conditions, they are free to find work elsewhere.

62 posted on 11/27/2017 11:05:43 AM PST by MD Expat in PA
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To: MD Expat in PA

Most of the work you listed is outdoors - duh!


63 posted on 11/27/2017 11:11:01 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Most people working in warehouses here WISH for 55 Hour weeks, but are cut off exactly at the hours when bennies kick in.


64 posted on 11/27/2017 11:13:46 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Welcome to life at the bottom of the food chain folks. When your primary job qualification is having a pulse you’re easy to replace and they don’t care if they burn you out.


65 posted on 11/27/2017 11:14:01 AM PST by discostu (Things are in their place, The heavens are secure, The whole thing explodes in my face)
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To: Abby4116

Except that the other delivery services understand how to get packages to safety in theft prone areas (the nicer neighborhoods), and for some reason the USPS won’t do it, they take the packages back and leav those little notices. I hate that. I prefer the amazon trucks.


66 posted on 11/27/2017 11:20:40 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: AppyPappy

Ah, you were the guy who broke the porn sets post shooting in Chatsworth. Minimum wage and all the condoms and cocaine you can use.


67 posted on 11/27/2017 11:22:25 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Hmm. Maybe I should sue the Navy for months of 18 hour workdays and regular 36 and 24 hour Vietnam river patrols.


68 posted on 11/27/2017 11:39:34 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: Seruzawa

We’re you on Swifts? My brother(RIP) served on Swifts, twin .50’s


69 posted on 11/27/2017 11:43:48 AM PST by crosdaddy
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To: Yaelle

Sewage treatment plant at a trucker motel full of prostitutes.


70 posted on 11/27/2017 11:55:53 AM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: Seruzawa

They paid you to go yachting?


71 posted on 11/27/2017 11:56:25 AM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: crosdaddy

Picket boats. Old mahogany beasts built in 1944 and resurrected for Vietnam. But twin 50s yes! Ma Deuce. Accept no substitute.


72 posted on 11/27/2017 2:37:48 PM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: AppyPappy

Yes. $200 per month incl combat pay. A fortune! Mainly because there was no way to spend it. Lol!


73 posted on 11/27/2017 2:39:38 PM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Poor pitiful earthlings. I used to work in a steel fabrication shop. No AC. Lots of torches. welders and furnaces going. Only a window fan on a pipe to keep me from passing out.

These poor snowflakes!!!! I worked in a factory in the early 1980's that had zero air conditioning and I worked on hot wax machines that were literally a foot or two away doing repairs, keeping them going so the cups McDonalds uses for their cold drinks got a proper seal. Those hot wax machines were easily running at 250+ degrees in a factory with no AC on a hot summer day where it was 95 outside, the factory floor was easily over 110F.

And I did that for at least 8 hours a day (took the overtime when I could get it) and I was GLAD to have the job!

These snowflakes don't know what a hard days work is, all they know how to do is whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine!!! (Just like my ex-wife)

74 posted on 11/27/2017 4:33:21 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Seruzawa

What about filling sand bags while in MOP gear (chem suit), in the desert at 120f in the shade? 16-hour days for months without one day off? My last deployment was 14/7/181-4 days for sightseeing. LOL

Amazon runs their crews ragged, but they don’t break laws. They employ a few lawyers whom they pay quite well to ensure the strict legality of their actions. As for morale, that’s not as big a concern. Turnover saves money from their perspective.


75 posted on 12/03/2017 10:45:31 AM PST by antidisestablishment ( Xenophobia is the only sane response to multiculturalismÂ’s irrational cultural exuberance)
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