Amazon jobs: boon or torture?

American Thinker ^ | 12/01/2019 | Thomas Lifson

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The company at the root of the fortune of the world’s richest man is either a slave-driving torture camp, or a generous and understanding enabler of people seeking to grow their skills and develop satisfying careers. Both views are getting lots of air right now, as Christmas hiring in a tight job market is sparking a recruitment drive at the online retailing champion.  

Some people who have worked at Amazon denounce their former employer as an inhumane sweatshop. Consider this article in the New York Post, written by Maureen Donnelly, who worked for one month at an Amazon fulfillment center, where goods on order are packed into boxes for shipping to customers. Ms. Donnelly found the experience intolerable:

I soon learned that only difference between an Amazon warehouse and a third-world sweatshop were the robots. At Amazon, you were surrounded by bots, and they were treated better than the humans. (snip)

They assigned me as a “stower.” I stocked shelves, called racks.

Squat, square orange robots — they looked like an ugly cousin to the Roomba — carried 8-foot-tall yellow racks with dozens of compartments. The bots would whiz around to the stowers and stop. Somebody called a “water spider” would bring me boxes of items to stow. I would lift the items out of the box, scan them and put each item into a compartment in the rack. When the rack was full, I pressed a button, and the robot would zip away with the rack, and another robot would arrive with an empty rack for me to fill.

[setter]

So your wife is Conservative..and you are what?

Conservative as well. Like I said continue to be a bootlicker for “some” of these large corporations that treat people like expendables.

Just don’t complain when the people vote for more socialist programs.

“And does AMZ force anyone to work for them?”

Really? Same old lame comment. No wonder people look at conservatives as cold hearted bastards. As I said I have been in employee benefits for 35 years and how employers are treating employees is getting worse every year. Expect a pushback from these employees.

Numerous people on here agree with me.

[Osage Orange]

No wonder people look at conservatives as cold hearted bastards.

This pretty much out's you....

Funny you are even here....

[setter]

This pretty much out’s you....
Funny you are even here...

Get lost. Read my other post. Far from being a liberal
I am a USA and American First, American worker first Nationalist an despise globalist who have destroyed this country.

I guess all the other posters on the Tucker Vulture capitalist threads are liberals too huh? Ones who are complaining about capitalism going amuck in these times

Yes, your let them eat cake attitude (AMZ is not forcing them top work there comment) does not side with middle America whom is getting screwed over is the main reason why Trump was elected.