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Amen. Most of Amazon's nearly 100k large workforce are warehouse workers, running around all day like rats in a maze with no real break, no opportunity to conne
by thelettere 12y ago
Amen. Most of Amazon's nearly 100k large workforce are warehouse workers, running around all day like rats in a maze with no real break, no opportunity to connect to other humans, no autonomy and no final product to be proud of. If that isn't a recipe for misery, I don't know what is.
"We have much studied and much perfected the great civilised invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. Truly speaking it is not the labour that is divided; but the men: – Divided into mere segments of men – broken into small fragments and crumbs of life; so that the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin.
"Only in right understanding on the part of all classes of what kinds of labor are good for men, raising them & making them happy, and by a determined sacrifice of such convenience, or beauty, or cheapness as is to be got only by the degradation of the workman; and by equally determined demand for the products and results of healthy and ennobling labour can this evil be met." -John Ruskin
- lsaferite 12y agoFunny you mention "running around all day like rats in a maze" as I have a good friend that just did an Amazon warehouse tour this week. He's the CTO for a company that runs several warehouses and he commented on the fact that the pickers were actually quite slow compared to what his pickers and others he's seen do. I was surprised because I too had read many times about how the warehouse pickers have to basically run everywhere all day.