Posted on 09/10/2019 12:49:56 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
SEATTLE — Engineers in the Bay Area. Advertising managers in Chicago. Freight specialists in Arizona. The job listings keep piling up at Amazon, a company that is growing in many directions amid one of the tightest labor markets in memory.
On Monday, Amazon said it had 30,000 open positions in the United States, including full- and part-time jobs at headquarters offices, technology hubs and warehouses.
Although the company has positions to fill across the country, Amazon’s job boards list many more openings in the Seattle area and California and by its new campus near Washington, D.C., than it does anywhere else.
The vacancies, which Amazon said it hoped to fill by early next year, are permanent jobs and do not include seasonal positions for the warehouse workers and drivers that the company typically hires to handle the spike in orders it gets around Christmas. More than half the jobs are tech oriented, and roughly a quarter are for warehouse work, the company said.
It is the most open positions the company has ever had, Amazon said.
The large number of openings is the latest sign of how the company’s ambitions are colliding with the reality of strong labor markets for both white- and blue-collar workers. Last fall, Amazon raised the minimum wage at its warehouses to $15 an hour, and this past summer, it said it would spend $700 million to retrain about a third of its American workers to perform tasks that required advanced skills. The effort included a major push to improve the technical expertise of corporate and tech-focused employees, such as turning entry-level coders into data scientists.
In August, the national unemployment rate remained near a 50-year low at 3.7 percent, even as hiring slowed in the face of the trade war between the USA and China
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calling AOC
Wasn’t it Amazon, that was going to put a major facility in New York City, but Ocasio-Cortez was against it, and eventually the deal fell apart?
I don’t remember the reasoning of Ocasio-Cortez for opposing, but as with other issues, she often doesn’t make sense when she tells us things.
Just anecdotal evidence, I see the Amazon Prime vans driving around town all the time. So it seems that their business is growing.
RE: I don’t remember the reasoning of Ocasio-Cortez for opposing,
1) She opposes the special tax break NYC was going to give to Amazon ( giveaway to the rich she says ).
2) The fact that 25,000 new jobs will be created means additional infrastructure strain, crowding and TRAFFIC.
Those were her two main ones.
They didn’t pay her off.
Too many zeros for AOC to figure out.
Brutal working conditions working in a Amazon warehouse or a driver.
Every stop is timed down to the second and production requirement increases all the time.
Super high turnover rate
Yea. I have friends that work in the Warehouses. It’s a dystopian nightmare.
From what some Amazon employees have told me, any job would be better than working for the oligarch Bezos and his modern-day corporate plantation.
“Yea. I have friends that work in the Warehouses. It’s a dystopian nightmare.”
A local guy near me was a driver. He would pee in pop bottles inside the back of the van and would eat his lunch while driving.
One day he was backing up and so was another person their rear bumpers hit maybe $1000 damage and he was fired.
Zero accident allowance. Production requirements always increasing.
Yeah, but you’d have to work at Amazon.
I once interviewed for a IT support role in a warehouse. essentially four 10 hour shifts then 3 days off, oh, mandatory OT and on call 2 of your 3 off days.
Amazon gathers information on virtually everything its workers do — from their pack rate to downtime — then pits workers against each other on the basis of these metrics. Amazon recently acquired a patent for employee-tracking wristbands that could monitor workers’ movements and vibrate to nudge them when it thinks they’re slacking off. The detailed profile Amazon keeps on its workers, coupled with a “rank and yank” philosophy — where companies rate employees against each other and cull the lowest performers — ensures that its workforce is continually evolving. Their 30,000 open positions may be the result of their over ambitious cuts due to their excessive demands for performance.
Their $15/hr entry wage includes their benefits and does not compensate for the stress required of the worker. I find this work culture is invading other company production lines in my area.
Former Amazon workers have also said they are pressured to under-report warehouse injuries. Those who do may find their claims for compensation denied and spend months on appeals. Remember, injury compensation insurance benefits are taken out of their $15/hr wages.
Without having read the article, I can say i heard Bezos say he needs non-citizens to work in his shipping centers. I’m assuming he means people who will take lower than minimum wage.
But any job at Amazon beats collecting welfare.
My oldest son had a job at an Amazon ‘fulfillment center’. It was his first job. He hated it. He did his best, but it wasn’t good enough. He was let go after one month. The conditions you speak of were pretty much on target, according to him.
He is working again, but he’d never recommend working for Amazon to anyone.
5 IT people I know worked for them. Thought it was the cats meow at first. Most quit before the big payout. They hated it. The culture, the monitoring and the biggest most consistent reason was the stress they had to endure every day.
Time to pay their workers more money!
Figure a lib socialist company wanting to pay their workers crap.... maybe is why he bought that paper, so they would keep quiet on these particulars of the company in exchange for an all out sell out of AMerica at the compost...
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