Gurl, you aren’t lying. Exactly.

They can offer them jobs AND a living wage. The idea that they can’t is nonsense. Absolute nonsense.

Yeah...the place I work is pretty much 8 hours straight no sitting (my orientation supervisor patted the chair and said “enjoy, its the only time you’ll sit here” like that was something to be proud of) and our “break” is one 5 minute gap to eat at a standing table (which much to the surprise of my family that’s…

Don’t worry- within 5-10 years, most of the workers and delivery drivers will be gone, with robots and autonomous cars taking their places.

I temped at Amazon corporate in Seattle (South Lake Union) a couple years ago. I thought it was strange being almost trampled by people who walked down the hallway with their laptops open to work on stuff as they walked the corridors. That is until I saw the guy who was standing at a urinal in the bathroom with his…

Fuck Jeff Bezos. That’s all.

America: A Capitalist Hellscape

I have a theory that all those defending Amazon, and saying “It’s WORK, it’s supposed to be unpleasant, durrrr!” have just been so thoroughly gaslit by their employers, and by the capitalist system over the last two generations, that they literally don’t even remember what workers’ rights were like. It’s like the…

My friend is a gardener in Aspen. Your assertion is not too far off.

The cost of filling the orders and shipping overseas would be pretty expensive, not to mention the impossibility of keeping a same day, 1-day, or 2-day delivery window, so I doubt that will ever happen. Most likely they’ll find a way for automatize it more and just take out the need for as many bodies.

for the same reason local economies collapsed in coal country - because we’re automating a ton of jobs out of existence, and rather than taking that additional productivity and using it to give workers universal healthcare or a universal basic income, we’re letting jeff bezos buy small nations and have 15,000$ of…

And Hamilton Nolan did a whole series on this a couple of years back (probably on Gawker?).

I wonder at what point it will pay Amazon to move all these jobs overseas somehow. Maybe work with a country that will create Duty Free zones especially for Amazon, so that the products come in and leave with no tax implications, but some warehouse jobs at $3 an hour will be attractive locally? I assume the only thing…

Yeah, I’ve heard about this practice before. It sounds like a nightmare. And When I lived in Seattle, Amazon had a reputation for being a hellish environment to work, even in corporate.

This can’t and shouldn’t go on. There is zero reason for it EXCEPT it’s the race to the bottom mentality of owners and consumers. The promise of instant shipping shouldn’t have been made, forcing a complete change throughout the way businesses get things to consumer. Thanks to this, the situation above exists. And…

Amazon is a bittersweet thing for me. Damn if that Amazon Prime and Subscribe and Save is not convenient as hell, especially for a working mom like me. But I know that Amazon is the reason so many stores are closing down and people are losing their jobs, only to be replaced by jobs like the above. Why can’t we ever…

Thanks for writing about this. The warehouse picking/packing/stowing jobs worked in such a manner create a timebomb for serious work-related injury. It’s “when”, not “if” each employee will be hurt in a physically demanding, fast-paced job like this. $12/hr is a pathetic sum to pay when the work could permanently…

Gizmodo used to post horror stories working for Amazon

Unfortunately, this isn’t new news (Jez has covered this).

Amazon takes many of the same shortcuts that Wal-mart does (low wages, shady sourcing, sweatshops, ruthlessness toward the competition) but to date, they have been able to avoid scrutiny because they’re practices are invisible and their client base is wealthier.