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I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave: Undercover in the online-shipping industry
- patio11 15y agoOn the plus side: this will almost certainly be fixed by technological change. In a few decades workers in warehouses will be coddled specialists. There will only be two of them, but they'll be coddled.
- AdamTReineke 15y agoI'd be really curious to know what the working environment is like in a warehouse that has the Kiva Systems robots. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/01/retailrobots/ http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/01/retailrobots/
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- holograham 15y agowhile I can sympathize with the human aspects I find myself thinking of how precarious these positions are. The jobs are competing with automation warehouse technology and every year that technology gets cheaper and better while wages for humans keep going up. It's a losing battle.
- vdm 15y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_storage_and_retrieval_system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_storage_and_retrieval... I'm waiting to see ASRS systems used for (de)racking in a datacenter. When that happens, maybe datacenter techs will become wage slaves as well.