Posted on 11/05/2017 9:37:28 PM PST by budj
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.
all day and night - no celebration for the working people.
So people are working 24 hrs a day? I think not.
I too will be working on Thanksgiving night, a ten-hour shift supporting war fighters in Iraq and Afghanistan. And if You think he won’t make any money on turkey day, you’re dreaming.
There will always be a place in my heart for those that take their turn standing on the firing step, especially on holidays. These 'workers' don't get comp time or holiday pay or a say-so, but they will be there.
I am sure many of the warehouse people aren’t choosing to work on the holiday. They just weren’t given the option not to.
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.
Working on holidays doesn't bother me, as long as it's by choice. I'd think there'd be no shortage of employees who'd want to work if they're being paid time and a half, perhaps double time if they work extra hours.
If they're not getting overtime pay and being threatened with being fired for not working, then it would be an issue.
Working on the holidays is great at the hospital. I know the CEO won’t pop into the nurses lounge for me to shake his hand. While we are at it let’s boycott war.
I can’t believe this leftist bullshit is showing up on FR.
Employers (job creators) have every right to tell their employees which days to work. If the employee doesn’t like, they can find another place to work.
Chances are they’re getting double time for T-Day :-)
I don’t understand the Left’s absolute hatred of Wal-Mart but their absolute love of Amazon (including recommending their unemployed friends to seek warehouse jobs there).
Amazon’s treatment of labor isn’t very good with a lot of burnout.
But hey, convenience!
Same $*@% as when Amazon bought Whole Foods (which was not owned by a left winger). Whole Foods actually had plans to benefit employees health (including dietary counselors that the employer would pay for).
But the promise of Amazon package delivery lockers at Whole Foods beats out the whole corporate culture thing.
>> Chances are they’re getting paid time-and-a-half.
Only if they are working over 40 hours for the week, I’m sure. Holidays don’t carry extra pay. You may get to double dip (holiday off pay plus your regular day pay).
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
My brother-in-law works all major holidays. Triple pay, catered meals. He can clear over $1200.
I was a CG cook in my young life. Unmarried and because the duty crew still had to eat... I don’t remember EVER having a holiday off. Fact of life.
Most if the younger married crew brought their young families to eat at the galley too! They all payed, and we ALL made a day if it. Even the Old Man and his family would show up. Retirees, vets... we were a Coast Guard Family. I hear it is not like that anymore... the lawyers got involved and killed off the morale.
People put too much value on merchants holidays anyway.
So, they’re working on Thanksgiving. Lots of people do. That is their choice of employment. While there may be lots of things to criticize Bezos for, running his successful company is not one.
As I was off from my full time job both Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday, I was more than happy to work Thanksgiving evening and Black Friday especially @ time and a half, plus the store management brought in deli trays, sodas, snacks all that weekend, some even made food themselves and brought in crock pots – turkey chili, BBQ, perhaps a small thing, but it made me and others, especially those of us who came in on Thanksgiving afternoon to get ready for the 6PM opening feel appreciated.
Right after HS I got a job at a local convenience store chain in Maryland, at first part time, then full time then as a store manager and I worked just about every holiday including Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. I was single at the time and I hated it but I survived – it was just part of the job. My family would do the family holiday dinner either later, after I got off or on the day after….
When I got into the payroll and accounting field I worked for a pharmaceutical company that shut down operations and the office twice a year, the week of July 4th and the week between Christmas and New Year’s – those 2 weeks were paid but counted toward the standard 3 weeks of paid vacation.
During the 4th of July shut down and part of the Christmas shut down, the maintenance crew worked to perform scheduled maintenance of manufacturing equipment and other maintenance that couldn’t easily be performed during normal operations, but so did the entire accounting department. June 30th was the end of a quarter and of course the end of December, year-end and the end of our fiscal year, and I was prepping for issuing W-2s and 1099’s. Since we were publically traded and had tight deadlines for closing the books, preparing financials and SEC reports, we really didn’t have a choice, not optional. While we didn’t come in on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, the 12 hour days before and after put a bit of a crimp on holiday festivities. And being salaried, while I got paid, I didn’t get OT, the only thing we got for working during the shutdown was the option to take those days we worked as paid time off later, but not for a whole week at one time.
I now work for a payroll provider in implementation. The office is closed on Thanksgiving and the day after but we are so busy with year-end and new clients coming on board for January 1 and with deadlines that cannot be missed, that I fully expect to be working, if not at the office, then remotely from home on Black Friday and the rest of that weekend and putting in crazy hours at year-end, so much that on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day, my main goal will probably be to catch up on much need sleep.
Celebrate with your family, not online shopping
As for Amazon, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are huge days for them, and for many other retailers doing on-line sales. So it is not so about people doing their on-line shopping on Thanksgiving Day per se. They’ve got to be stocked up and ready to fulfill those orders placed on Black Friday and on Cyber Monday and throughout the rest of the holiday season. And Amazon does an amazing job at this, they stake their reputation on it.
FWIW, my great nephew works in IT for a department store chain in PA. He often has to work any days, including holidays when the store is open and sometimes on holidays like on Thanksgiving when the stores are closed but their website is processing on-line orders.
And many others work on Thanksgiving Day and on Christmas Day – police, firemen and EMT’s, farmers, emergency utility crews, and in some parts of the country – snow removal crews, and doctors, nurses and pharmacists, hotel personnel – from the front desk to the bell hops and maids, airport and airline personnel, gas stations, convenience stores, toll takers ….. not to mention our men and women in the military.
Sure, everyone would like to spend Thanksgiving at home with the family, looking like something out of a Norman Rockwell painting but it is what it is if you choose to work in any one of those jobs. If you don’t what to have to work on holiday’s, get a job that doesn’t require it. If you are against doing on-line shopping on not only Thanksgiving Day but on the days that follow, don’t do it.
Well. I spent time in the military, where time off on those holidays was nice but not guaranteed.
When I got out, I worked in the Medical field, and being on-call was a very common experience, if not outright working. There are just some fields of employment that require it.
When these people were hired, I don’t doubt for a second that weekends and holidays were a subject covered during the interview, employment, and on-boarding process.
My feeling is that if someone feels that strongly about it, they should find a different line of work. They have a choice in the matter.
I have always appreciated entities like Chick-Fil-A who don’t open on Sundays, or even someone like Sandy Koufax, a great pitcher who refused to play on the Sabbath.
I can respect that.
But I also respect people that run a successful company or corporate entity, even if part of that is requiring staffing on weekends and holidays.
He’s paying them. They took the job with the understanding of having to work some holidays.
Communist meme: “corporations exploit workers.”
I’m buying at Amazon or walmart.com the way I always do.
“Boycott AMAZON”
Screw that.
Where have you been for the last five years or so?
We are discovering that many items on Amazon can be had somewhere else for far less.
It behooves people to shop around on the internet.
That said, we won’t be buying anything anywhere on Thanksgiving Day.
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