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I had a roommate who worked in the Amazon warehouse. He said it was very chill and easy work. Mind that he was someone who was a day-laborer, worked in filthy f

I had a roommate who worked in the Amazon warehouse. He said it was very chill and easy work. Mind that he was someone who was a day-laborer, worked in filthy factories, and so on, so it's possible contrast principals are at play here. As for the quality of the products, there are many 3rd party sellers on Amazon who are selling garbage. This is unfortunate, but that's a tough battle for Amazon or the competing sellers to lock down. I'm not sure why you'd defend the suppliers who refuse to sell due to iron fisted policies, yet complain about the quality of the products sold. Amazon had / has to do something to clean up the mess. Hopefully it will be beneficial to the buying experience on Amazon.

krapp 9y ago
In my experience working in an Amazon warehouse (albeit only one,) it depends. I could barely walk for two months after I started, just because I wasn't physically prepared to stand or do repetitive movements for ten hours a day - and I work in one of the biggest FC's in the network so it was a six or seven minute struggle across the building and down two flights of stairs to get to the car sometimes. I don't blame Amazon for that, though. I do blame them for complaining about the cost of providing us with aspirin, then simply deciding not to provide it anymore. The work is tedious and exploitative, and it's very apparent working there that Amazon considers you little more than a meat machine there to run an algorithm, despite the lip service otherwise, and often your job depends on metrics you're not even allowed to see, and the pay is terrible. But, some people don't mind it. Some people actually like it. Others have to be carted off in an ambulance because they worked themselves into heat exhaustion.
FussyZeus 9y ago
> I had a roommate who worked in the Amazon warehouse. He said it was very chill and easy work. Mind that he was someone who was a day-laborer, worked in filthy factories, and so on, so it's possible contrast principals are at play here. Having worked at a Fedex hub for a number of years, I can tell you numerous things I've heard about Amazon's warehouses sounded familiar. It's awful work and it destroys your body, and it sounds like they don't even pay as much as Fedex did. > As for the quality of the products, there are many 3rd party sellers on Amazon who are selling garbage. This is unfortunate, but that's a tough battle for Amazon or the competing sellers to lock down. There are many ways that Amazon could lock itself down that would hinder the speed at which they are attempting to operate. It's obvious looking at their current methods that they don't see it as enough of a problem to change their core business, and that's the issue. They're ok with selling shite on the side likely because many don't bother to return and because traffic is traffic when it comes to getting people on the site. > I'm not sure why you'd defend the suppliers who refuse to sell due to iron fisted policies, yet complain about the quality of the products sold. Amazon had / has to do something to clean up the mess. Hopefully it will be beneficial to the buying experience on Amazon. I'm referring to small businesses and individual operators, not Shenzhen factory castoff resellers. There's a difference between a seller who has a hard time meeting Amazon's policy which largely boils down to "Ship it, right f*ing now" and a seller who is just incompetent or whatever the case may be who can't get packages out in a timely fashion. And more to the point, it's about Amazon's total lack of any flexibility regarding ship times; they expect small business to react with the same sort of frantic pace as they do, with a massive warehouse and drop-shipment infrastructure, and its dumb.

krapp 9y ago

In my experience working in an Amazon warehouse (albeit only one,) it depends. I could barely walk for two months after I started, just because I wasn't physically prepared to stand or do repetitive movements for ten hours a day - and I work in one of the biggest FC's in the network so it was a six or seven minute struggle across the building and down two flights of stairs to get to the car sometimes. I don't blame Amazon for that, though. I do blame them for complaining about the cost of providing us with aspirin, then simply deciding not to provide it anymore. The work is tedious and exploitative, and it's very apparent working there that Amazon considers you little more than a meat machine there to run an algorithm, despite the lip service otherwise, and often your job depends on metrics you're not even allowed to see, and the pay is terrible. But, some people don't mind it. Some people actually like it. Others have to be carted off in an ambulance because they worked themselves into heat exhaustion.

FussyZeus 9y ago

> I had a roommate who worked in the Amazon warehouse. He said it was very chill and easy work. Mind that he was someone who was a day-laborer, worked in filthy factories, and so on, so it's possible contrast principals are at play here. Having worked at a Fedex hub for a number of years, I can tell you numerous things I've heard about Amazon's warehouses sounded familiar. It's awful work and it destroys your body, and it sounds like they don't even pay as much as Fedex did. > As for the quality of the products, there are many 3rd party sellers on Amazon who are selling garbage. This is unfortunate, but that's a tough battle for Amazon or the competing sellers to lock down. There are many ways that Amazon could lock itself down that would hinder the speed at which they are attempting to operate. It's obvious looking at their current methods that they don't see it as enough of a problem to change their core business, and that's the issue. They're ok with selling shite on the side likely because many don't bother to return and because traffic is traffic when it comes to getting people on the site. > I'm not sure why you'd defend the suppliers who refuse to sell due to iron fisted policies, yet complain about the quality of the products sold. Amazon had / has to do something to clean up the mess. Hopefully it will be beneficial to the buying experience on Amazon. I'm referring to small businesses and individual operators, not Shenzhen factory castoff resellers. There's a difference between a seller who has a hard time meeting Amazon's policy which largely boils down to "Ship it, right f*ing now" and a seller who is just incompetent or whatever the case may be who can't get packages out in a timely fashion. And more to the point, it's about Amazon's total lack of any flexibility regarding ship times; they expect small business to react with the same sort of frantic pace as they do, with a massive warehouse and drop-shipment infrastructure, and its dumb.