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Amazon burns through workers so quickly that executives are worried they'll run out of people to employ, according to a new report
https://www.businessinsider.com ^ | Jun 15, 2021 | Ben Gilbert

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: amazon; liberals; stress
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To: faucetman

Bullshit. Amazon treats people like trash. Got a dick, piss in a bottle, no pee break.


21 posted on 06/16/2021 4:14:19 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Alberta's Child

They are true. I know numerous employees.


22 posted on 06/16/2021 4:15:37 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: joma89

I suggest folks stop buying from amazon. Plenty of small buisness out there.

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Will a small business deliver a $10 item to my house in 2 days? Free shipping of course. I only live 10 miles outside a town with a population of 900.


23 posted on 06/16/2021 4:16:12 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It’s my government that I hate.)
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To: Enterprise

There was an article over the last few days that said Amazon was having 150% turnover per year in an average warehouse.

Said warehouses employ up to a thousand, and are often in small areas.

You end up with no work force pretty quickly.

I know. I used to work for ADM in the bad old days


24 posted on 06/16/2021 4:16:16 PM PDT by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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To: Dalberg-Acton

Of course it is. Did you not notice how they so carefully avoided asking why all these people are quitting?

Even people who really want to work cannot survive the brutality they are subjected to as Amazon employees.


25 posted on 06/16/2021 4:17:02 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: escapefromboston

Yes, it is an easy problem to fix. Raise the wage a bit, hire a few more people so they can ease the quota a bit and generally treat the employees like people.

Problem solved at the cost of, probably, less than 1% of profits.


26 posted on 06/16/2021 4:17:54 PM PDT by jimtorr
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To: ckilmer

I saw some news short at the gas pump about bots and Amazon.


27 posted on 06/16/2021 4:18:25 PM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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To: EvilCapitalist

Some people do have excellent work ethics, but Amazon uses metrics where you basically have to be in the top third of the human population for physical fitness, but they don’t pay accordingly.


28 posted on 06/16/2021 4:19:06 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Just because I coughed on you does not mean that I have covid. It means that we have covid. )
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To: Enterprise

Unfortunately, you can’t whip slaves anymore!


29 posted on 06/16/2021 4:20:10 PM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Responsibility2nd

Try shopping local. Maybe suggest to some shopkeepers some of the more commonly ordered items.


30 posted on 06/16/2021 4:20:25 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Just because I coughed on you does not mean that I have covid. It means that we have covid. )
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To: Enterprise

Is it that the rules suck (bathroom breaks, water, food) or is it that people just don’t want to work? I used to load trucks all day in a warehouse that went from 75 degrees in the production area to 95 in the loading area to 115 on the actual trucks. Never bothered me as a teen or in my 20s.


31 posted on 06/16/2021 4:20:53 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: Enterprise

What do they do with the bodies?


32 posted on 06/16/2021 4:21:01 PM PDT by Richard Axtell ( NO*)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I have a similar experience. 12 miles to a town of 15,000 with shopping limited to little more that a WalMart and a small Safeway. A former logging town in Oregon.


33 posted on 06/16/2021 4:23:11 PM PDT by jimtorr
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To: BiglyCommentary
Maybe Bezos uses the CHICOM employee model, running them into the ground.

Sounds like he already does. There is an Amazon distribution center near where I work and we frequently interview folks from there and no one thinks it's a great place to work

34 posted on 06/16/2021 4:23:48 PM PDT by Fzob
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To: Enterprise

Amazon makes no money selling products. AWS makes all the money.


35 posted on 06/16/2021 4:25:20 PM PDT by FatherofFive (We support Trump. Not the GOP)
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To: Enterprise

Does it have anything to with Amazon being control freaks?


36 posted on 06/16/2021 4:26:45 PM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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To: Enterprise

Maybe they can make a deal with china to get some of those Uyghurs.


37 posted on 06/16/2021 4:27:30 PM PDT by Baldwin77 (The 2020 election was stolen from MY President Trump)
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To: Enterprise

amazon is one of the worst sweatshops around, digitally micromonitoring every move by its warehouse pickers and delivery drivers, and abusing their knowledge workers until they collapse from burnout ...


38 posted on 06/16/2021 4:33:33 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: GreyFriar

Not just quitting....Every one of them bitches and moans about how bad working there is.... So,a few that might have thought about working there,go elsewhere...


39 posted on 06/16/2021 4:33:49 PM PDT by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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To: Alberta's Child

Amazing how none of these centers are hit by looters.....


40 posted on 06/16/2021 4:35:03 PM PDT by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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