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Absolutely. This is a sign that the system is working. Amazon doesn't have a monopoloy on jobs that allows it to pay dramatically under market for warehouse wor

• Spooky23 8y ago
  Huh? Roofing pays a premium because it is a crap entry level job that is hard to staff with reliable workers. The labor force is generally limited to younger able bodied men with transportation who are willing to do seasonal work. Amazon can recruit almost anyone to do picking and can get value even from the people whom they purge.
• prolikewh0a 8y ago
  >Roofing especially in a hot climate is harder more demanding work than a warehouse job. Have any evidence of this or is it purely anecdotal? Many warehouses aren't air conditioned, especially Amazon ones. https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-warehouse-2011-9 https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-warehouse-2011-9 > Amazon kept paramedics in the parking lot of the warehouse to treat employees who were fainting, suffering from dehydration, or exhaustion.
  • tfehring 8y ago
    Still anecdotal, but I’ve personally done roofing (for a portion of a summer) and worked in a warehouse (for a year and a half including 2 full summers). Roofing was worse, but not by that wide of a margin - just in terms of physical exhaustion, the warehouse work I did was much closer to roofing than to, say, retail or food service. Then again, while the warehouse I worked in had much less stringent metrics than Amazon’s, there were other factors that may have made it worse overall.