Panorama - Amazon: The truth behind the click

[lukemg]

Really want to hate Amazon but the site is just so good and easy to operate, I just get drawn in. I do now do a quick check the price is reasonable (not always the case) but all things being equal I buy from them.
I have a vague concern for how they treat people but don't think any of what I have seen is outrageous. There used to be vast numbers of basic jobs (or a good war) that mopped up all the people with these basic abilities - many of them grim and dirty. Most of these are gone and we are left with call centres and places like this.

[minestrone]

Really want to hate Amazon but the site is just so good and easy to operate, I just get drawn in. I do now do a quick check the price is reasonable (not always the case) but all things being equal I buy from them.
I have a vague concern for how they treat people but don't think any of what I have seen is outrageous. There used to be vast numbers of basic jobs (or a good war) that mopped up all the people with these basic abilities - many of them grim and dirty. Most of these are gone and we are left with call centres and places like this.

Exactly, the left have been screaming about the death of the pits for 20 years, lets open them back up and cram the useless down them.

After a few cave ins, gas explosions and tip collapses they will be begging to get back to the warehouse.

[Mich the Tester]

We let the Chinese suffer those now.

After all, there's billions of them.

But now the Chinese are outsourcing it to Africans. Often very small Africans who are good at clambering in and out of confined spaces. Then some of them grow bigger and they get fired; they're the lucky ones.