As someone who worked a 54 hour week for most of my working life I thought this was satire.
I imagine they appreciated the overtime. Amazon expects their warehouse people to work hard. No one forces them to remain employed their, either. There is always a line of people eager to work for the company.
Or whatever the British word for Snowflakes is.
So they will be happy when they can all be replaced by robots....
I managed restaurants my entire life and it was the NORM to work 60-70 hours a week! What a bunch of PANSIES!!!!! Being on salary my pay was far below min. wage these damned workers today are just ridiculous and they DEMAND 15.00 an hour, I would have thought I died and went to heaven for 15.00 an hour!!!
Very simple. If they don’t like their current jobs, they should quit and find new jobs. I’m sure there is a line of prospective job candidates standing by to take their job.
IOW....they want to unionize.
Amazon recently delivered two packages to my doorstep in a timely manner, tucking them against my front door under the overhang, which is good. A third package, delivered at a different date, was dropped in the middle of my driveway in front of my doorway but not under the overhang, like a newspaper would be tossed on the driveway, and the one corner flap was slightly pulled up and damaged, not so good. Some delivery driver hired quick for the holidays, no doubt.
So Amazon, which tries very very hard to cowtow to the left, is doing precisely that which communists claim that businesses do: exploit employees.
The boss man is worth mega billions, and he pays the employees as little as he can get away with. He runs the wash post, a liberal rag.
But he gives much bucks to democrats, and so he is given a free pass.
54 hours?
My longest work week was 121.5 hours. It was sandwiched between weeks of 100+ hours.
I never bitched once.
Cannery in Alaska.
Paid for may college.
They ought to try working a production line in a tier I auto stamping plant......
I’lll bet they make a ton of money for working hard.
I worked 2 full time jobs for 10 years. 8-5 then 6-2. I had Saturday and Sunday days off and Tuesday and Thursday nights. Lots of times when I’d wake up and look at the clock I’d know I had to go to work but couldn’t remember which one. lol
In the modern world, Amazon is infamous for being tough on its rank and file.
This newspaper article sponsored by the Brick-And-Mortar Business Association of the U.K..
I hear the same thing about the local call center. The whole system is designed to be efficient and penalize slackers.
For some reason, my meth-head cousin does well there.
Most people working in warehouses here WISH for 55 Hour weeks, but are cut off exactly at the hours when bennies kick in.
Welcome to life at the bottom of the food chain folks. When your primary job qualification is having a pulse you’re easy to replace and they don’t care if they burn you out.
Hmm. Maybe I should sue the Navy for months of 18 hour workdays and regular 36 and 24 hour Vietnam river patrols.