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At least here in the states, workers rights are very poor, and Amazon will hire nearly anyone. I know that they were only offering homeless in Seattle & Bellevu
by moyta 10y ago
At least here in the states, workers rights are very poor, and Amazon will hire nearly anyone. I know that they were only offering homeless in Seattle & Bellevue nigh shift hours as a temp employee, which meant they could not live in a shelter or rehab since they would start work a few hours after the curfew. Really a great helping hand Jeff, throwin' em to the wolves!
- TheGrumpyBrit 10y agoThat's one way to look at it, but for context, what other firms were offering work to the homeless?
- moyta 10y agoQuite a few others, to the point that they put on a job fair: http://kuow.org/post/amazon-hires-homeless-workers-and-everyone-ends-disappointed http://kuow.org/post/amazon-hires-homeless-workers-and-every...
- plandis 10y agoAmazon also has some undeveloped land that they have turned over to an organization that runs homeless shelters to provide housing for the years in between when the land is developed. But yes. Amazon is a terrible place to work and we are all just too dumb to quit. Oh, and we all hate homeless people, I guess.
- moyta 10y agoSure, they occasionally help out Mary's Place and the like, not disputing that. Many other companies do so too. From what I've heard from Amazon workers, from drinking with them on Cap Hill, or from my own neighbors who work there, or my Cousin who was a higher up there & left, or from my friends, on average its not a great place to work. There are good teams, but compared to what I've heard from IBM or Microsoft employees it sounds worse than working at either of them, and on par with working at Adobe Seattle over in Fremont.