Amazon has the second highest employee turnover rate of the fortune 500 companies. They do fire more people (and drive people to quit) at a significantly higher

Amazon has the second highest employee turnover rate of the fortune 500 companies. They do fire more people (and drive people to quit) at a significantly higher rate. There are claims from former employees that they have a deliberate policy of firing people at eleven months, before they have to start providing medical insurance and paid holidays. That's legal, and horrible, and every time you or I buy from Amazon, we're saving a few pennies on the misery of those employees. and they'll work everyone as hard as they legally can They sure do. They take care (mostly) to stay on the side of legal. I'm not saying what they're doing is illegal (although some of their anti-union activities sure do come close!). Just grotesque and horrible. Amazon employees too many people to effectively hire based on a strategy of exploiting only the "desperate, vulnerable and fearful," I disagree. They put their warehouses where there are large pools of desperate, vulnerable people. They do that because they want to employ those people. A great deal of effort is put into planning where to put those warehouses. They know what they're doing. They know that they're going to get employees who will put up with urinating in bottles because going to the toilet will get them fired. There's evidence that this is the case. You say it's not the case, but then what do you say about the evidence? Is that evidence manufactured? Are people doing it for the fun of urinating in bottles? If you're going to argue that it's not that strict, you need to deal with that evidence. There is a lot out there suggesting it's a horrible place to work, and workers saying it's worse than other warehouse jobs they've had (which would imply that your claim it's simply typically bad, as minimum wage jobs tend to be, isn't true).