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As a consumer I couldn't be more then delighted by the Amazon (customer) service. However, when I read how they threat their employees: it sounds horrible. Le
by wineisfine 10y ago
As a consumer I couldn't be more then delighted by the Amazon (customer) service.
However, when I read how they threat their employees: it sounds horrible.
Let's hope they never get to the tipping point that they can threat Restaurants, like their employees.
That said: I like it that they try out new things and don't care about failing.
- ChadMoran 10y agoAs a Software Engineer with Amazon I have only great things to say. EDIT: I've been at Amazon over 5 years.
- untog 10y agoOf course, you're valuable. A company is much more interesting to assess according to how they treat less valued workers, like warehouse staff. Amazon does not rate highly in that regard.
- enraged_camel 10y agoI don't think we can use that as a benchmark, since software engineers are treated much better on average across the industry. IMO, the best indication of a company's general sense of ethics is the way they treat their lowest-paid employees. Amazon doesn't instill confidence in that regard.
- deanCommie 10y agoIf you ask Amazon warehouse workers who've worked at numerous large fulfillment centers for different companies, they say that by and large the work is about the same everywhere. Tough and not very well paid, but what do you expect for completely menial labour that will be replaced with robots in a couple of years.
- amzn-throw 10y agoAlso Amazon SDE for 4 years in 3 different offices. Nothing but great things to say. The recent HackerNews Amazon hate-train has been a huge bummer and mostly does not reflect reality.
- dawnerd 10y agoI've talked to a restaurant owner that uses this. He said it's now a very large portion of his business and he's looking to hire more staff to stay open longer (currently pretty weird hours since its just him and a couple others). Because of the way it's setup, Amazon is more of the consumer than the boss. The only negative thing is some of the drivers don't use the heat bags correctly or toss the food around which ends up looking bad for the restaurants.