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    Sean BrodyHamilton Nolan
    6/06/16 2:13pm

    You can boycott Amazon.
    I do it.
    You might think it’s ubiquitous, it’s not.
    It’s not difficult to live without them.

    I did it because of this.

    I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave

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

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      Captain HindsightSean Brody
      6/06/16 2:15pm

      For managing their workers? Yeah, that’s a great reason to boycott. Enjoy cutting off your nose to spite your face.

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      ReburnsABurningReturnsSean Brody
      6/06/16 2:19pm

      I’m pretty sure it’s impossible to engage in any sort of retail shopping without contributing to a deeply unethical supply line.

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    rusholmeruffianHamilton Nolan
    6/06/16 2:10pm

    There is no legitimate reason for not unionizing these sorts of businesses. They cannot be outsourced away, and there’s no pretending that workers bring any sort of unique skills to the job.

    I’d much rather pay an extra $25a-50 year for my Prime membership and be able to sleep at night knowing that my neighbors (I live in the Inland Empire) aren’t being exploited so I can save a few dozen cents on a toner cartridge.

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      Rookrusholmeruffian
      6/06/16 2:23pm

      Unfortunately, that’s not how it works. If they increase membership cost, most people will simply opt out. This in turn will lead to massive lay-offs. But you will then be able to sleep at night knowing the ones you were trying to protect are now jobless and can rest the whole day!

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      ceptrirusholmeruffian
      6/06/16 2:32pm

      Price of automation is coming down at a fixed rate, if you increase the cost of human fulfillment all you do is make the switch over date come sooner. This job has a half-life of five years at most.

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    Jeb! & The HologramsHamilton Nolan
    6/06/16 2:07pm

    A production-based workplace expects workers to produce. Why, I never...!

    This is some amazing, hard-hitting stuff, Ham.

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      Rutherford B. Hayes, caretaker presidentJeb! & The Holograms
      6/06/16 2:14pm

      They should be treated better. Longer breaks, more considerate/flexible “rate” rules, fair pay and benefits for seasonal and third-party employees, etc. No one needs to be infantalized in order to do a job.

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      TawkSomeHawkeyRutherford B. Hayes, caretaker president
      6/06/16 2:20pm

      Say goodbye to Amazon Prime, then.

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    tito_swinefluHamilton Nolan
    6/06/16 2:15pm

    I want to say that I really appreciate all the serf-class who work as slaves/indentured servants so that I can have a certain amount of convenience in my upper-middle-class life. I mean, I’m not suggesting they get paid well or anything crazy, but I’ll tip my glass of 15-yo bourbon to you if I remember when I end my new-media work day at 3pm.

    Keep doing a great job guys! It’s really heartening to see so many people willing to lay down the best years of their life in mindless drudgery to keep my toilet paper arriving on the same day I order it. Remember, striking, rioting and sabotage will prevent you from getting your ten dollar gift card bonus at Christmas time.

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      Tallulah Geocities Angelfire was raised by wolvestito_swineflu
      6/06/16 2:26pm

      I work in an Amazon warehouse. When I pull toilet paper off the shelves to be shipped out, the empty void of my zombie unconsciousness fills with dispair and misanthropy. Now when I pick a dildo, it’s party time!

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      IstillcallitsheaTallulah Geocities Angelfire was raised by wolves
      6/06/16 5:50pm

      On a completely unrelated topic, I wonder how much dildo usage has increased since Amazon made them so much easier and discreet to obtain?

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    IAMBlastedBiggsLostBurnerHamilton Nolan
    6/06/16 2:08pm

    And whatever you do, if you value your rep, do NOT go into a strip club and say ‘Makin’ it rate, yo!’. Or anywhere else, for that matter. Well, except maybe the Amazonian warehouse. That'd be fine, I guess. I mean, that's kinda the whole point, right? I just read this whole article about it, so...anyway, like I said, way back then when I started this comment....enjoy your local strip club!

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      CatdogWhispererIAMBlastedBiggsLostBurner
      6/06/16 2:16pm

      I just go in and promise to Make America Rate Again and all the Republican strippers flock to me.

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      Quasar FunkCatdogWhisperer
      6/06/16 2:25pm

      I wonder if a Republican stripper would give me a boner?

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    ReverandRichardWayneGaryWayneHamilton Nolan
    6/06/16 2:18pm

    About thirty of us were sat down in a room and showed videos that would train us for the exact kind of jobs they did at ONT6, not our ONT8. We were told how to properly pack items into the cubbies at a traditional warehouse, despite the fact that there were none whatsoever at ONT8.

    So is it when you reach ONT10 that you find out Jeff Bezos is an intergalatic space dictator crashing DC-8s into volcanos?

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      signofzetaHamilton Nolan
      6/06/16 2:12pm

      Making “rate” for a business such as Amazon makes perfect sense. Having a set goal for someone to package items is the most logical way to judge whether someone does a good job or not.

      What sounds stupid is to be judging someone’s rate on a daily basis. The law of averages should means an 8-hour shifts number may mean very little compared to a monthly rate. Any boss constantly harassing people over that hourly/daily is wasting his/her time.

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        ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and Bokesignofzeta
        6/06/16 2:18pm

        But if the manager didn’t harass his underling, how would they make their “motivation” rate?

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        Tallulah Geocities Angelfire was raised by wolvessignofzeta
        6/06/16 2:35pm

        I work there. Meeting the target is simply not enough for the reason that you said, because some days the task can be considerably more difficult than others, so if you’re not significantly exceeding the rate on a near-daily basis, your weekly average (everything that can be measured, is) suffers. If you want to stand out among your coworkers, you need to be pushing %200 daily.

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      Low Information BoaterHamilton Nolan
      6/06/16 2:07pm

      Watch yourself, Bezos is going to sic the Pinkertons on you.

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        ThenSALow Information Boater
        6/06/16 2:17pm

        Just be careful.

        The employees might screw up and send the Red Album instead.

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        Low Information BoaterThenSA
        6/06/16 2:21pm

        The first concert I ever attended was Weezer. FML

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      odyshapeHamilton Nolan
      6/06/16 2:13pm

      The “job interview” sounds like a way to train workers without paying them. The seasonal workers who had to be bussed should be paid for the time getting in line for the bus and the travel time on the bus.

      This is why we need unions.

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        ReburnsABurningReturnsHamilton Nolan
        6/06/16 2:17pm

        It would seem like a smart organizing effort could work pretty well in this environment. Moreno Valley isn’t exactly a shithole with nowhere else to work.

        The most critical element would be hitting a critical mass for a long enough timeframe that Amazon started actually failing at timely fulfillment from orders out of the facility.

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