Posted on 05/02/2019 6:21:14 AM PDT by stan_sipple
Amazon warehouse workers are monitored by tracking systems that measure each employee’s productivity, issue warnings for workers that lag and fire those consistently behind, according to documents obtained by The Verge.
Amazon offers a base $15 an hour wage and its warehouses, called fulfillment centers, are often competitive to work at. The company is continuously replacing slow performing employees with new hires. An automated system tracks employees and gives pink slips to consistent underperformers, The Verge reported. An Amazon spokesperson told The Daily Caller News Foundation that no employee is fired without meeting with a supervisor.
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I wonder when Bernie will speak up and tell Amazon that while $15.00 an hour is good, they only have to put in 4 hours of work out of 8 to get it.
So?
LOL! Metrics that directly feed an automated pink slip for a manager.
“Alexa, who do I fire today?”
Alexa: “Today, you are supposed to fire Jerry in Building D. His box loading performance is lower than most others.”
“Thank you, Alexa.”
Ain’t capitalism great?
Very commendable.
Hell on earth. Rule by robots.
I see robots as future defendants in EEOC cases
Well, that explains the subpar packing in each box I get from them.
Nice. Got machinery doing what a bonus program would do.
Aging employees who have “lost a step” will be sent to the glue factory.
So. I don’t have a problem with this. With today’s work esthetics, people goof off more than they work. We have a monitoring system where I work and I see nothing wrong with it. If you are working, there is no problem. If you are not producing, you deserve to be fired. If everyone could be trusted to put in a fair day’s work, companies would not have to resort to this. It is the peoples’ own fault they have to work under these conditions.
They use robots BECAUSE of EEOC. It's a way to show that the firing decision was done with no possibility of discrimination on the basis of "protected group" factors.
Headline caught me by surprise. Thought this was something going on in South America/?
This isn’t news. I live in a small town with a fulfillment center.
Thing is, companies that move this sort of facility to small towns have to be a little careful. They can burn through the entire employable population of the town.
I used to work for a company that designed and implemented call centers in these third tier markets (low cost of living and low wages). They actually had to close down and move facilities because there was nobody left to employ that had not already been fired. And, on a related note, they found that if a condition of employment was drug testing, they would be hard pressed to find any employees at all.
I think this speaks to my own personal opinion that the warehouse staff will eventually be mostly replaced by robotics. I think we’ve all seen those videos. ;)
So the “robot overlords” description is not too far from the truth.
Exactly. I do not understand how someone can show up, collect a paycheck, and not do !@#$.
In a free and rational society, labor saving devices raise productivity of labor, which leads to increased average wage rates and standard of living of the average worker.There is no divine right of stagnation. Labor saving devices cause a change in the pattern of employment, but does not cause mass unemployment.
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