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The sears salesmen directly drove revenue. He was being incentivized to increase revenue. The warehouse worker is not directly driving revenue at Amazon. The de
by purple-again 8y ago
The sears salesmen directly drove revenue. He was being incentivized to increase revenue. The warehouse worker is not directly driving revenue at Amazon. The developers do...and they are being incentived to keep doing so.
The world changed, business stayed the same.
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- darawk 8y agoExactly this. It's staggering how intellectually dishonest this piece is. I don't understand what is happening at the NYT, but this and other pieces like it lately are representative of just awful journalistic standards.
- kibwen 8y agoAccording to the article, it would appear this was not limited to salespeople: “Most of these people retired with a good pension,” said Jon White, who worked at Sears for 38 years, most recently as a manager in a store in Lithonia, Ga., before retiring in 2008. “Most of them are comfortable for the most part — cashiers, clerks, replenishers, all kinds of workers.” I would assume that "replenishers" are directly analogous to current Amazon warehouse employees.