I got a job for ya.
Posted on 06/16/2021 3:58:17 PM PDT by Enterprise
Amazon has been hiring hundreds of thousands of workers for roles in its warehouses, which it calls fulfillment centers, but those employees have been quitting almost as fast as they can be hired, according to a huge report from The New York Times published on Tuesday.
Many of the over 350,000 workers Amazon hired from July to October stayed with the company "just days or weeks," the report said.
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I say nobody should work for the wages being offered. The demand on the body they expect will be felt for the rest of their worker’s lives. Why do we have so many knee and hip replacements being done these days? Why are so many riding the sit-downs through the grocery stores. We should be a people that value human live and not treat people as expendables brought to us by the Abortion Industry.
Not a fan of unions but if you want unions then this is how you get unions.
...and if the mom & pop’s products are strong sellers, amazon clones them and crowds mom & pop out of the market.
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I’m sure that happens. But I’m also sure it never happens at Walmart. Since Walmart buys most of their crap from overseas.
So are you arguing for wage and price controls? How very socialist of you.
It adds up. Bezos is worth $20 billion and those who hold the biggest shares of UPS are not.
It adds up. Bezos is worth $200 billion and those who hold the biggest shares of UPS are not.
No, just the opposite. If we give into Amazon's desire to set wages and give them the illegals, H-1B and L-1 visas then we are f'd. I would prefer unions over that situation
Tell them you roved through Baghdad with an MP-5 immediately post invasion and they might think twice.
I actually think it’s a matter of time before all illegals are given retroactive citizenship which will allow Amazon to hire tens of thousands of workers for 10 bucks an hour.
Mexicans. Always willing to do the job Americans won’t do.
I repeat myself: “There is a systemic problem with capitalism. Labor is arbitraged down to the lowest GLOBAL common denominator. Then life sucks so bad the socialists take over. Lather, rinse, repeat...”
They hire their own liberal type. Or at least what they advocate. Pot smoking, Starbucks drinking, Xbox playing slackers.
“Try shopping local”
I do that all the time and, after visiting the fourth or fifth store without the product or part I need, I call it quits, go home, and order it from Amazon. It usually arrives a day or two later.
I hate doing that, but these ridiculous trips waste hours of my time and $10 of gas.
I tried buying a Scotts drop spreader for fertilizer yesterday. Two Ace stores — nope. Lowe’s — nope. Home Depot — nope. Local nursery with good tool selection — nope. Came home and used the Lowe’s and HD web sites to see if any stores have it. All came back with “can’t find it within 100 miles.”
Jumped on Amazon, click, click, done. It’ll be here on a couple of days.
Only because Libertarian Rush Limbaugh brainwashed "conservatives" for 30 years thinking something like you suggested above is actually a good thing when it is a disaster....
Phone. Ask your retailer if he can order it for you. I do that and many are accommodating.
There are not jobs Americans won'y do. They won't do them for the wages being offered, but raise wages and the will do them.
It’s not a problem with capitalism so much as it is a problem with globalism.
while I don’t like tariff wars, a country should always work to protect its own citizens against being undercut by foreign entities (including illegal invaders). To a point, of course. Don’t want the locals getting fat, dumb, and happy either. FAIR competition is what it’s all about.
Domestic competition works to stop that.
That’s not it. Amazon is a dead end job where workers are treated like robots.
I got a job for ya.
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