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 the olden days, men considered themselves “Warriors” and did nothing.
Women did all the work of gardening, making clothes and raising children.
The children were the cow herders.
The union folks warned us not to exceed standard or you would be in big trouble.
in a past life i was a class-a machinist before doing Motion&Time Studies, and i knew how the game was played
a few rates got changed that needed to be changed for years...
Warriors? Even those on the Western plains farmed and or raised cattle...so I doubt they did nothing or they would starve.
There used to be an old joke about the American Indian.
All the men did was hunt, fight, fish, dance and practice making little Indians.
And the women did all the work.
Then the White man came along and ruined it for everyone.
Agree. Our Gov handouts must stop.
Which Naps is this?????
OH i agree with that, you work and your wages never increase, ya you are going to dog it.. Bezos like a lot of billionaires, are just tight with “their” money and want to be control freaks over everything they touch .
Sounds like Lazarus Long.
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