Amazon has a high turnover rate in their logistics business.
They measure every employee’s production every shift and apply pressure to those who are not on target.
The problem is that most people cannot handle the pace, pressure and physical demands of the jobs that Amazon has in that element of their conglomerate.
But they know if they take it and bomb out physically and/or mentally...Uncle Sam is there with a check. So people who know they cannot perform take the job. Hoping they won’t be there long.
Amazon cannot decline to hire a fat drunk smoker that’s in their 40s or 50s for obvious legal reasons.
But they should be able to.
Hell, the Whole Foods folks are bitching too. They are expected to re-stock shelves at a measured rate, maintain precise inventory so that just in time supply is efficient, and there are fewer people in the front of the store for checkout and customer service.
They are all busy actually working instead of discussing the latest health food fad or generally making nice with the customers.
Amazon runs the best, most cost-efficient logistics business the world has ever seen, or even dreamed of. Those who want to succeed in it must be young, smart and fit. And they must not have a US Mail Service attitude toward work.
Thus millions of people hate them.
They measure every employee’s production every shift and apply pressure to those who are not on target.
I once worked in a business, in which the salesmen were ranked and measured in a similar manner.
The attitude of the owner/boss of the company, was that he wanted top performing salesmen, and that he wanted to train and mold them into top performers. He knew not all would be able to make the cut, but he had high standards for performance. Those who performed were rewarded, and for those who didn’t meet standards, attempts were made to train them to increase their performance.
If some salesmen were ranked at the bottom two or three months in a row, that salesman would be replaced. The attitude of the boss, was that he would rather cut his losses, and then recruit some new people who might be able to achieve at the higher levels he expected, instead of having to carry lower achieving people who would never be able to improve.
It sounds as if Amazon has some similar employee standards.
Wish I was born 30 years later. This would have been the perfect job for me after the military.