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Do you mean to imply that this is their income by choice? Because they don’t want to work more than this? This sounds like a bold accusation. Let’s not play du
by extralego 8y ago
Do you mean to imply that this is their income by choice? Because they don’t want to work more than this? This sounds like a bold accusation.
Let’s not play dumb. Part-time work is preferred by low-wage employers because it skirts providing benefits and job security. I content with this as a seasoned professional. I can’t in any honesty imagine low-wage workers would not face this problem to a larger degree.
“Average worker”...OK, even worse. So there are enough workers at Amazon warehouses making making less than that to give us an average of $12,000/year. I’m sorry, I do not get your point at all.
- blacksmith_tb 8y agoPossibly the implication was that this is one of several jobs they are forced to work in order eat and have housing, which is not pleasant, but common enough to approach 'average'.
- lainga 8y agoI didn't see anything approaching an implication there.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoNot really wanting to get involved in this debate or having a strong opinion either way, but I'll point out that I did part time warehouse work (not Amazon) to get me through college. Many of my co-workers were in exactly the same boat.
- asdfman123 8y agoLet's read the article first? > Meanwhile, the median Amazon employee’s salary in 2017 was $28,446. During the first five months of this year... that median-earning Amazon worker worldwide has made around $12,000 before taxes, assuming salaries have stayed more or less the same this year. This article just has a slightly dishonest headline to catch people's attention. It's $28k, and it's a median, and it's worldwide.