Posted on 06/17/2021 8:37:52 PM PDT by anthropocene_x
David Niekerk, who helped design the company's warehouse-management system, told the publication that founder Jeff Bezos' belief that people are inherently lazy helped shape the company's policies. He pointed to a short-term employment model that doesn't provide employees many opportunities for advancement and to the way Amazon used technology to keep workers on task. Amazon doesn't guarantee wage increases after a worker's first three years, the report said, as a way to oust employees who might become too comfortable at Amazon. The practices that Niekerk described are some of the company's most contentious - like firing employees for a single day of low productivity and continually keeping workers on task with limited break time and high productivity goals. Amazon's culture and high expectations for employees have also made the company a leader in workplace injuries.
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Someone once asked the Pope: “How many people work in the Vatican”?
His answer: “About half of them.”
He’s right to watch. Most are lazy and thieves. Good for him watching out for customers.
Amazon’s new company song, sung excellently by a true man:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jIfu2A0ezq0
Is he wrong?
WaPo Fake News writers are lazy, both physically and intellectually.
Yes and no, if you are taught a work ethic and stick to it you will succeed. If you are young and dumb believing the world owes you a living you fail
He will not be the first person in history to solve the principal-agent problem. Not even close.
Democrats really do resent losing their slaves, even today every move is an attempt to put those slaves back on the plantation.
By our creators design we are lazy. The human body might be the most efficient machine that God ever created. We are truly incredible in our ability to process simple grains and proteins... we can live for weeks without food. There are other creatures who can live much longer but they can’t sustain our cognitive abilities. Praise be to our creator.
He is probably correct. I certainly am.
well, actually, you are. Amazon is only using people because writing software to control people is still, at least for a few more months, cheaper than programming robots to replace people. I'm excited to see what happens when the workers who were mistreated by the mega corporations are fired and robots take all the jobs. The corporations I'm sure expect that the workers are just going to take their unemployment and go home to play videogames. I think it's going to be a lot different.
People have to be able to have an income to obtain the products from these companies.
Simple solution: Pay them more to be less lazy.
Will robots be customers too?
I was driving somewhere today and I saw a swarm of amazon robot beer delivery coolers coming right at me from a side street.
I stopped for the stop sign, some went right some went left
I pulled into a parking lot got out took some pics and video.
The thing was very aware of me even though I was 10 ft away and not in its path. It was acting twitchy like an unpredictable animal.
I don’t think I like it.
Oh those will do real well in da hood, LOL!
Jeff Bezos thinks people are inherently lazy, and he’s right.
Where did the Washington Post stand on giving people more money not to have a job rather than go to work?
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