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Lays on the schmaltz pretty thick in the beginning. In fact I couldn't even get past all the schmaltz. Then I remembered he has warehouses where underpaid worke
by m0zg 6y ago
Lays on the schmaltz pretty thick in the beginning. In fact I couldn't even get past all the schmaltz. Then I remembered he has warehouses where underpaid workers pass out from exhaustion and I stopped reading.
- dencodev 6y agoThis is basically just highly polished PR. I'm sure bezos took acting classes and consulted with psychologists for just this purpose.
- mft_ 6y agoI’d you’d continued lower down, you’d have read: > Amazon employees make a minimum of $15 an hour, more than double the federal minimum wage (which we have urged Congress to increase). We’ve challenged other large retailers to match our $15 minimum wage. Target did so recently, and just last week so did Best Buy. We welcome them, and they remain the only ones to have done so. We do not skimp on benefits, either. Our full-time hourly employees receive the same benefits as our salaried headquarters employees, including comprehensive health insurance starting on the first day of employment, a 401(k) retirement plan, and parental leave, including 20 weeks of paid maternity leave. I encourage you to benchmark our pay and benefits against any of our retail competitors. They might still be ‘underpaid’, but maybe they’re less underpaid than other similar businesses? Could it be true to say that all entry-level jobs suck, but maybe working for Amazon sucks slightly less than some others?