Panorama - Amazon: The truth behind the click

[doodab]

you might like to ponder that the people working in the warehouses are as intelligent as you, harder working and will one day (if they so wish) will become more successful than you.

While this is undoubtedly true in your case, most of us aren't recruitment agents.

[Mich the Tester]

As I said, what I find unpleasant about the Amazon thing is the corporate BS thrown at people, but perhaps that's a minor complaint. When I worked in a warehouse the people working there were doing it for one or more of three basic reasons;

- unable to find something better and frustrated by it (about 20% in the place I worked)
- unable or unwilling to do something more complex but basically cheerful and contented and glad that their work was clear and directed by someone else (about 40% at a guess)
- students and the like earning a bit of money to supplement income (about 40%)

[minestrone]

With augmented reality we could fill the warehouse floors with coins to pick up, shelves with stars and if their productivity falls below par the managers appear as Super Mario baddies.

Even I would do that job for minimum wage.

[SueEllen]

If you are thick and stupid, isn't an Amazon warehouse job going to be perfect for you?
After all you are not exactly going to get bored because you don't have two brain cells to allow yourself to become bored.

Being told to pick stuff fast is fine but doing it to an automated voice is not.

[KentPhilip]

it doesn't fit with the "perfect idealism" of the chattering liberals.

Exactly.

of course the real reason the liberals are against Amazon is because it is such a success. Liberals hate people and companies being successful - they are motivated by envy, hatred, and a desire to destroy.

[doodab]

Exactly.

of course the real reason the liberals are against Amazon is because it is such a success. Liberals hate people and companies being successful - they are motivated by envy, hatred, and a desire to destroy.

Do you really believe anyone is motivated by "envy, hatred, and a desire to destroy"? Seriously?

[MicrosoftBob]

Exactly.

of course the real reason the liberals are against Amazon is because it is such a success. Liberals hate people and companies being successful - they are motivated by envy, hatred, and a desire to destroy.

I'm against it and I'm definitely not a Guardianista living in Islington or Hampstead

Why do assume everyone who disagrees is a liberal ?

[KentPhilip]

Do you really believe anyone is motivated by "envy, hatred, and a desire to destroy"? Seriously?

Yes I do.
Society is full of evil beggers, and some of them dress themselves up as socialists.

I'm against it and I'm definitely not a Guardianista living in Islington or Hampstead

Why do assume everyone who disagrees is a liberal ?

Because if you were not a liberal you would take the view (correctly) that it is a free country, and nobody forces you to work for Amazon.

[SueEllen]

Yes I do.
Society is full of evil beggers, and some of them dress themselves up as socialists.



Because if you were not a liberal you would take the view (correctly) that it is a free country, and nobody forces you to work for Amazon.

You know life isn't binary don't you?

[darmstadt]

Yes I do.

Because if you were not a liberal you would take the view (correctly) that it is a free country, and nobody forces you to work for Amazon.

Precisely, just like the fact that no-one is forcing you to breathe! (*)



(*) Actually you could say they are because if you stop breathing then you die which means unless you are actually dying (#) then you're committing suicide which is against the law...


(#) You could actually argue that we are dying from the second we are conceived, our only aim in living is to die, but I don't think that works in court...