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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In my youth I worked for a company that was almost completely unionized. Each job had a “standard”, the number of items/products to be produced in an hour or on a shift. This was probably the result of negotiations between the union and the company. Anyway I found that the amount was usually set at a rate which reflected steady work, not fast or slow.
Management told us that you were not expected to meet standard immediately as each job took time to do well. The union folks warned us not to exceed standard or you would be in big trouble.
Safety regulations were very tight and demanding. Violations could get you fired. Some safety rules I found as ridiculous as some of the union rules but overall the plant worked well and I never saw an accident.
In honor of the late Ned Beatty....
"And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that... perfect world... in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality. One vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock. All necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused."
Smarter people than Bezos have attempted, but none have ever succeeded. He will not solve a problem that has been around since the dawn of bosses. Apologies if I’m unclear.
Hijack the
Little Buggers!
It’s the lazy people that are most motivated to invent ways and equipment to efficiently accomplish tasks.
Uh huh, and why exactly would that be? Probably not that hard to guess, actually. Another thing, never understood the phrase "Give War a Chance" but with a unionized army and union negotiated weapons firing "standards" that if exceeded would bring "big trouble" or some such nonsense, guessing maybe there might be a lot less killing and wounding per day.
i was too lazy to read the aRTICLE, did it say anythign itneresting?
Why is everyone singeing out Amazon lately?
These sound like jobs for the young. So they can learn that jobs like this are no way to live. High pressure and no freedom.
Jeff Bezos does what he does because he knows what HE is, knows HE cannot be trusted. Only people who are themselves worthy of trust are willing to trust others. They get burned for it on occasion, but at other times they are often pleasantly surprised and richly rewarded by earning the loyalty of their associates.
Nobody is holding a gun to their heads to work there. You don’t like having to hustle, go work at the post office.
Agree. I recall the 50’s and early 60’s when I worked for neighbors who let me mow yards, shovel snow out of driveways, plus I unloaded boxcars of plywood with black mem in VA at 15. I have never had any youngster knock or stop by and/or ask if he could work. I had a 35 year old stop by last month about cutting wood/tree limbs.
He charged $200 for what a tree limb type Mex wanted $850. It was done in 2 hours.
Laziness is the mother of invention.
I’ve been working 70 hour weeks on average since I was a teen. I’ve also worked at least 48 hours straight a few dozen times. I wouldn’t encourage anyone to work like that, but I certainly expect the average individual to do something meaningfully productive each week.
These weekly Covid payouts need to stop. 9 million available jobs, 11 million on the dole. That’s obscene.
I don’t believe that..not even a little.
I don’t care if he thinks workers are lazy ... if he is allowing unsafe working conditions he should be held accountable.
Some of these poor schmucks’ only asset is a strong back ... take that away and what do they have left.
The way bezos treats his employees and his customers tells you how the control freak fascists that he supports will treat people when they achieve total power.
Total control of your every movement. Complete clampdown on your ability to express your thoughts. Monitoring of your financial activities.
*grin*
Did they ever solve the mystery of the nooses at the Amazon construction site that got me 30 days in FBGestapo prison for showing it was not a hangman’s noose but a honda knot with extra wraps?
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