“Butthead bezos and the offices will be closed on Thanksgiving, celebrating with their families. The warehouses will all be open and fully staffed all day and night - no celebration for the working people.”
your post is complete bullshit: millions of people work extra days and extra hours during the Christmas shopping season. FedEx, UPS & USPS people hire thousands of extra people to work many of those extra hours. Pretty much all retail brick and mortar stores and all online stores and fulfillment centers do the same thing during the shopping season, also hiring tens of thousands of extra workers and paying overtime and holiday pay to current workers.
For most retailers, Christmas shopping is what makes or breaks their entire year in terms of profitability, and they spend tons of extra money on existing and temp employees to help them pull it off.
There’s nothing particularly special about how hard amazon employees have to work during the holiday season. Furthermore, it appears amazon must treat their employees decently given the relatively high rankings they give amazon on glassdoor.com:
https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Amazon-Reviews-E6036.htm
I work at the type of place you mentioned and honestly it makes me dread the holiday season anymore, whereas it used to be a wonderful time of year for me, as it is for many I’m sure. We are pressured to work additional weekday hours in addition to added weekend days for the whole month leading up to Christmas and the workload is much more than normal.
sounds “wonderful”
this is from that site:
I have been working at Amazon full-time (More than 8 years)
Pros
Jeff Bezos and his “S-Team” are brilliant and continue to make great decisions for long-term growth.
You work with smart people, you work on exciting projects, you are pushed to your limits...which can be rewarding when you accomplish great things. The diversity of the potential work and innovation can be very alluring. I’ve often called Amazon my “Sexy Mistress...she’s emotionally abusive, but she’s so sexy …
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Cons
The management process is abusive, and I’m currently a manager. I’ve seen too much “behind the wall” and hate how our individual performers can be treated. You are forced to ride people and stack rank employees...I’ve been forced to give good employees bad overall ratings because of politics and stack ranking.
Advice to Management
Don’t pretend that the recent NY Times article was all about “isolated incidents”. The culture IS abusive and it WILL backfire once stock value starts to drop. I’m an 8 year veteran and I no longer recommend former peers to interview with Amazon.
https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Amazon-Reviews-E6036.htm