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Originally Posted by stinkubus
Amazon distribution centers are sweatshops that work people until they collapse from exhaustion. WaPo themselves did a story on one Amazon DC that had to contract with the city where it was located to have an ambulance on site 24/7 because workplace injuries were so frequent.
Bezos doesn't care about anyone's welfare.
I got 2 friends who work in amazon warehouses. They say compared to other places the work is very easy. The benefits are pretty solid, 401k, they get 2 shares of amazon every 2 years which is about 1300 right now. Lots of vacation/paid time off. Monthly production bonuses. Tons of opportunity to move up in the company. Help pay for school up to like 5k a year. Offer free classes for things like microsoft excel/word, resume stuff, bunch of job training stuff. And they both started at the bottom of the barrel loading packages onto trailers and make like $20/h now after 2 years. Not great but not too bad for guys who didn't have education beyond high school or any trade skills.
Said it's way better than any other warehouse they've worked for. Might be a CA thing though so dunno. That said Bezo's could obviously do way more.
They did also mention though they'll literally hire anyone pretty much, so you get a ton of people who never had a real job and end up quitting.
Obviously working in any warehouse isn't going to be easy physically.