A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.
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Let's be realistic here. The majority of people don't care, at all, about how the workforce of the place they buy things from is being treated. By and large, they happily buy things from companies with MUCH worse practices than Amazon without a second thought. If child and slave labor don't move the needle for them, why would the (comparatively-speaking) paradise of working at Amazon?
Includes a complementary bottle of piss.
Now they won't have time to pee in a bottle, just let fly.
Exactly. I don’t need socks delivered like emergency medicine — I’d rather the worker gets a real lunch break.
how dare you communist! /s
I don’t need socks delivered like emergency medicine
If socks were delivered like emergency medicine, it would take six weeks to fill the prescription, cost you $600/sock, and you could suddenly be refused service because the head of HHS decided you deserve to be barefoot.
(in the usa)
"But if I dont subjugate an underclass and kill babies then someone else will and they might make money doing it."
-literally the problem with gestures broadly
One-hour shipping is impressive, but one-hour lunch breaks would be a much better flex.
But but Jeffo is a Job Creator! He was just born Better Than You. /s
You can make money without being cruel or awful to your workers. But every mega corp just wakes up and picks the most exploitive option humanly possible.
No you can't. Not in crony capitalism. Any honest business will go under, be bought out, or turn corrupt. If you are a multi millionaire or billionaire, you are absolutely evil.
If a company is publicly traded it's evil because their business model depends on infinite growth for investors and doesn't care about the workers.
Untrue. Sometimes theres smaller businesses that dont. Theyre either driven out of the market or bought out.
It costs more to shop at places other than Amazon, mostly because of shipping.
Amazon forces all of its business partners to have at least the same price or higher on other platforms, so yes, that's by design to keep you ordering via Amazon.
They should be forced to Unionize.
Both are entirely possible. But only one will exist, because Amazon absolutely needs all the money in the world.
. Just call it 90 minutes. If you use minutes it sounds like less time
Progress!
25 years ago I could get everything I need within 1 hour by riding the tram or my bicycle to the store.
Where staff with a 3-year education recommended the right product for me, and weren't aggressively pushed by their employer to upsell.
(This wasn't in the US though).
Today, the only things left in the city are shops for smartphones, sports betting, vapes and barbers where the haircut somehow costs half as much as the mandatory minimum wage with taxes.
25 years ago no agressive push? I was getting pushed for the insurance 25 years ago.
Living in rural Norway this was never an option. Normal stuff was accessible (and in shops with qualified staff) but anything special was only available if a distributor had it.
EBay, Etsy, Ali Express and amazon (however much I despise their business practice) makes stuff available. Even now living close to Oslo, Norway is such a small market that stores can't really have that much capital bound up in stock that occasionally sells.
A few examples:
Same with IT. Unless i order it I can't get anything better than drop shipped unmarked second hand cables from media market. But we have 20 clothing shops with the same cheap slave made clothes.
We don't want or need one hour shipping. We want Jeff bezos to divide his net worth equally among all his employees so they can have a comfortable living while working their asses off every day.
I don't want 1 hour shipping. I want charming niche shops and fabs where the employees are treated well and able to serve higher quality products, and repair things when they occasionally break.
Honestly I don't think it can. In USA there is this shit called "law of precedence" and also there is this precedence that means companies are liable in court if they don't prioritize shareholder profit.
Any reform that could possibly work must probably start with outlawing stock markets and loans.
The Longer I live, the more I realise America is just Rapture City from Bioshock with some adjustments.
No matter how sassy your reply is if it is on twitter you're part of the problem.
We used to have 2 day shipping. Now I'm lucky to get stuff the same week with prime. Price decrease? Nope price increase. Amazon sucks.
Meh, still not happy about their overpromise on drone delivery years ago. Would much rather have a drone drop something off than someone peeing in a cup in a truck.