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    Sara-Slaughter607Hamilton Nolan
    8/25/15 3:43pm

    Yeah... their business practices are right up there with WalFart and McDontAsk...

    But...

    They’re so fucking convenient I have a reallllllly hard time when it’s the difference between me spending a few hours of my day visiting a place that is not close and clicking a few times while at home on my couch.

    Damn you, internet shopping. You've made it way too easy.

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      Misteaks were madeSara-Slaughter607
      8/25/15 3:46pm

      Actually the free two day shipping makes it a VERY easy decision to shop there and not have to drive to some brick and mortar after work.

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      ljndawsonSara-Slaughter607
      8/25/15 3:48pm

      I know what you mean. I just moved. Amazon is making it nearly trouble-free. And I hate myself for it.

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    ThrumbolioHamilton Nolan
    8/25/15 3:47pm

    Warehouse life sucks. This is not news.

    Amazon’s warehouse environment, however, appears to suck significantly more than the few warehouse jobs I’ve had for major retailers.

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      RexxyThrumbolio
      8/25/15 3:51pm

      At my company, warehouse workers make BANK and are treated very well. But I’m not in the consumer goods space. So we have way different standards and regulations. We also don’t need nearly as many humans as consumer goods does. So economically it makes sense for management to pay big money for the warehouse peeps.

      I could leave my desk job and go work in the warehouse and probably make more money (if I did hourly, was union in Germany, and did the ‘cold room’)

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      godspeed_aquaboyThrumbolio
      8/25/15 4:03pm

      I had a warehouse job back in the day. It was hard work and I left work everyday pretty exhausted, but I never felt treated unfairly. The stories of Amazon’s warehouses sound horrible. Their MO seems to be to burn through as many people as can put up with their shit. Those that survive are just those who are willing to and can’t wait to shit on the next batch the way they were shit on.

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    UncleCCClaudiusHamilton Nolan
    8/25/15 4:06pm

    Does anyone think the second story adds anything at all? This is the sort of ranting you hear from someone in a bar closest to the warehouse. Anyone who has worked in a warehouse environment knows this person.

    If they’re hiring “any warm body” chances are the author is one themselves.

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      A Robot That FartsUncleCCClaudius
      8/25/15 7:00pm

      Yup. I’ve worked in warehousing for years. Story #2 is sour grapes from someone who wasn’t cut out for warehouse work. I’ve heard it 1000 times before.

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      UncleCCClaudiusA Robot That Farts
      8/25/15 7:08pm

      Have them work in a dimly lit warehouse with propane forklifts for a while.

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    Thunder-LipsHamilton Nolan
    8/25/15 4:10pm

    I am really amazed at the number of people around here saying silly things like “its so cheap and convienant though!”. Its like admitting to being pro sweat shop. Don’t get it twisted people, giant corporations, like amazon, would have way worse conditions if it was possible. They are the kind of corporation that is amazed they have to pay anyone at all.

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      Emerald D.V.Thunder-Lips
      8/25/15 4:49pm

      “but Chick-Fil-A/Jimmy John’s tastes so good!”

      “but I can’t live without my iPhone!”

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      emfish55Thunder-Lips
      8/25/15 5:26pm

      Reading those comments sends a little chill down my spine because I work in another industry that is trying to find every way possible to outsource and cut costs on the work I do (research) and in the end devalues every person who does it. But the industry wants what it wants when it wants it, and they don’t want to have to pay a premium for speed or convenience. And why would they? In the Amazon world, speed and convenience is basically free — you get the same product for the same price or lower, and you get it delivered to your door in two days or fewer with no additional cost. So, my customers and bosses think, why can’t everything be that way?

      Convenience has a cost. It’s just that Amazon, and many other companies, are finding ways to make their workers pay for it instead of their customers. All these “but it’s so convenient” commenters better pray they always wind up on the right side of that coin or suddenly it won’t seem so easy anymore.

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    AndrosZHamilton Nolan
    8/25/15 3:52pm

    You think that’s bad?

    What about the people who are making the products in those warehouses? I’m sure their lives/work conditions are far worse.

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      Freddie DeBoerAndrosZ
      8/25/15 4:04pm

      Which is precisely why people have to stop saying “oh, boohoo for the white collar workers, who cares that they’re exploited, they’re well off,” etc. That turns our concern for workers into a race to the bottom. I mean, the average cell phone has minerals in it that may very well have been mined by literal slaves, so those Foxconn workers who kill themselves have it good, right?

      We can’t win that way. Exploitation against white collar workers, warehouse workers, factory workers — we have to oppose it all. It’s the only way we can win.

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      VectoriousAndrosZ
      8/25/15 4:06pm

      I love these arguments. Basically you can’t care about anything because something is always worse. You have a cold? What about those that have the flu?! Your car broke down? What about those that don’t have a car?! You got hit by a bus? What about all the people who’ll never have a chance to get hit by a bus because their town has a crappy public transportation system?!

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    SteveHamilton Nolan
    8/25/15 3:58pm

    Memo to Amazon workers: If you don’t like it there, quit. All of the power is yours. Someone who owns or runs a company is going to do it their way, and if you don’t like it, the answer is not a ridiculous expose or a weak ass union or a lawsuit. Quit and work somewhere where you are treated better, or better yet start your own business.

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      cowabungabungaSteve
      8/25/15 4:19pm

      yawn

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      Emerald D.V.Steve
      8/25/15 4:50pm

      If only life was that easy.

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    Sean BrodyHamilton Nolan
    8/25/15 3:53pm

    Plenty of good reading on the subject here

    And it is worse than having to answer emails at night while you make 6 figures.

    http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/…

    I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave

    My brief, backbreaking, rage-inducing, low-paying, dildo-packing time inside the online-shipping machine.

    —By Mac McClelland

    | March/April 2012 Issue


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      KreeosSean Brody
      8/26/15 4:04pm

      Wow. It’s hard to believe that such inhuman treatment is still prevalent in America. That is absolutely disgusting.

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    Misteaks were madeHamilton Nolan
    8/25/15 3:44pm

    This reminds me...I need to check the tracking on my current Amazon order.

    Thanks HamNo!

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      More Ghosts Less StuffMisteaks were made
      8/25/15 4:11pm

      I ordered those power cables Kinja Deals is recommending, today! I can’t wait to get them!

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    AndrosZHamilton Nolan
    8/25/15 3:44pm

    Sounds like you’ve got yourself...

    GIF

    ...a prime story.

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      CaptainJackHamilton Nolan
      8/25/15 6:38pm

      I find it funny that the bulk of these complaints seem ot be over 15 minutes of time here or there not being paid, and we are supposed to feel more sorry for them than the white collar workers who are being coerced into working an extra 30 hrs a week for free.

      I have worked crappy manual labor jobs that were way worse than what these sound like. Factory and warehouse jobs nearly universally suck. Amazon isn’t really much of an outlier in that regard.

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        NicoCaptainJack
        8/26/15 11:28am

        Did you read it? They were taking an hour a day from people who were “15 minutes late” even though that’s when their shift was supposed to start. If you showed up on time every day and got docked an hour each time you’d be pissed to.

        Also, when someone is getting f*cked in the ass, pointing out that the next person got no lube isn't helping anyone.

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