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I've heard good and bad things about the warehouse conditions. For many employees (from what I've heard) saying "low skill" is a severe under statement. I've he

I've heard good and bad things about the warehouse conditions. For many employees (from what I've heard) saying "low skill" is a severe under statement. I've heard from friends at a local Amazon warehouse of employees, for instance, using sex toys in the employee bathrooms (stolen from the carts.) Ex-cons starting fights on the floor, etc. Amazon is in turn has to be incredibly strict with its employees on the floor because of the type of people that it can attract. I know that sounds a bit heartless, but it is an unfortunate reality. That being said, if you can make it off of the floor from the "picker" role you are treated much better (from what I've heard,) because it shows you are competent. Almost anyone else on the floor could be fired and replaced within a day.

runawaybottle 7y ago
You know there are subsets of tech that look at developers as a group that needs to be kept in line also. It’s a very bad way to look at people. Just think about you and your colleagues being seen with a very narrow dismissive lens.
- partiallypro 7y ago
  I think that's an easy thing to say when you have never worked on a factory floor with unskilled labor with a lot of problems. So, I don't think that's an apt comparison. I have a friend that works for an automotive contractor and someone was beaten with a wrench and hospitalized over some minor very quibble. These things never make the news. You don't see that in development or many other jobs. I have worked on an unskilled factory floor for a short time and there were good people, but you do have to understand that the workers that these jobs attract are sometimes untrustworthy and it's a difficult task to figure out who is who when there is so much employee churn. It is terrible, but it's a reality that I think so many people are in denial about.

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I've heard good and bad things about the warehouse conditions. For many employees (from what I've heard) saying "low skill" is a severe under statement. I've he

by partiallypro 7y ago

runawaybottle 7y ago
You know there are subsets of tech that look at developers as a group that needs to be kept in line also. It’s a very bad way to look at people. Just think about you and your colleagues being seen with a very narrow dismissive lens.
- partiallypro 7y ago
  I think that's an easy thing to say when you have never worked on a factory floor with unskilled labor with a lot of problems. So, I don't think that's an apt comparison. I have a friend that works for an automotive contractor and someone was beaten with a wrench and hospitalized over some minor very quibble. These things never make the news. You don't see that in development or many other jobs. I have worked on an unskilled factory floor for a short time and there were good people, but you do have to understand that the workers that these jobs attract are sometimes untrustworthy and it's a difficult task to figure out who is who when there is so much employee churn. It is terrible, but it's a reality that I think so many people are in denial about.