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In their warehouse? Well, a job is a job, I guess.
by eva1984 10y ago
In their warehouse? Well, a job is a job, I guess.
- jimmytidey 10y agoA job is a job, but a good job is better than a bad one. A bad job with no prospects of turning into anything else, is pretty close to as bad as unemployment to my mind.
- __abc 10y agoI think it's easy for us (most likely anybody readying HN) to not understand how impactful this could be to someone's family/life. WE get to be selective of "does this job help my career trajectory" but not everyone. This MAY be life changing for those 100,000 individuals.
- SAI_Peregrinus 10y agoIt all comes down to the difference between a job and a career.
- __abc 10y agoLet us not forget not everyone has the luxury of picking between the two.
- astrodust 10y agoThere are jobs so bad that being unemployed is an improvement because at least then you have time to find something better. Too many people are stuck in the trap of working for a terrible employer that beats them down psychologically, treats them like dirt, and forces them to jump through endless hoops just to keep their crappy job.
- refurb 10y agoWow. Believe it or not, everyone doesn't work in Silicon Valley coding new apps.
- pclstyle 10y agoAn incredibly arrogant response to what could potentially be an enormous opportunity for tens of thousands of families. What's wrong with a warehouse job if it gets somebody out of unemployment?
- Grue3 10y agoThe same argument can be made defending the practice of sweatshops.
- eva1984 10y agoI visit their warehouse once. It is not a good job, to be put directly, everyone looks like they would jump out immediately if given a choice, which should be no surprise, since the warehouse is designed in a way to maximize automation, the stuff left for human to do is still pretty robotic. My statement is easy to understand, a majority of claimed 100,000 jobs might be that desirable, even though they are jobs indeed. As other comments put, those jobs help little in the person future career, and is not something you can do for a long time either.
- thefastlane 10y agoyes, praise lord bezos and the rest of the monied elites for the scraps of sustenance which they deign to toss at the hoi polloi.