• qwestjest78@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    Here is my question, why would they want to do that? Like I get that they want to maximize productivity, but if you keep pushing them, then eventually people quit. Don’t they still need workers?

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      4 days ago

      The strategy so far has to just hire new ones. The job is so on the rails anyone can do it. The machine tells you where to go, which items to pick up etc

      You obviously don’t want people to quit, but they want to push them as hard as possible without making them quit

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    4 days ago

    Serious question: why do people work at amazon? Are they unaware of what’s happening? Is the money just that good?

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      Changing jobs carries a lot of risks:

      • Many Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck and cannot afford to quit their bad job before looking for another
      • American healthcare system means that if you are between jobs and anyone in your family gets seriously sick/injured then you will be in medical debt for the rest of your life
      • For many people, there are few jobs available. Maybe the other jobs pay too poorly for them to live on
      • As discussed, employees aren’t given slack-time, so they can’t search for a new job while at work
      • Because they’re exhausted, they can’t search for a new job while not at work
      • Amazon isn’t the worst place to work. Your next job might be worse! (Small businesses in the USA are exempt from many rules and effectively-exempt from many more.)