Amazon workers go on strike.

[Donny]

I just had an interview with them scheduled they starting @ $19 an hour but it’s mad people there one of our states top employers definitely don’t want to miss out on the bread though.

 

[richaveli83]

But how about keeping the machines working or fixing just in case of them malfunctioning?

Yeah you'll need employees for that.

 

[pete clemenza]

I’ll interject by saying that instead of addressing the issues the workers have, Amazon will just choose the path of least resistance by hiring people willing to accept the workplace conditions and policies lamented by the existing personnel.

We all understand that they can be replaced but what this protest is saying is that the job in itself is BROKEN. Its like some city bus drivers going on strike and new hire replacements show up to work and all the busses have no tires. We all know they're replaceable, most jobs are even in the white collar world.

 

[Youseenmywork]

Same reason the mail is still running and UPS and Fed Ex ect.

This is a lot deeper if I were to sit down and think about combine that with our government ...NVM

 

[NerdNash]

Will other areas get down with this tho is the question

 

[MikelArteta]

No leverage? Aint nobody in their right mind tryna work 12 hour shifts 6 days a week in a stuffy warehouse where 11 ppl already caught the virus.

consider all the restaurants, gyms etc. shut down
folks are itching for work
you should see how mayn applications we had to screen covid patients at the front door of our hospital

 

[O.Red]

Not necessarily. Automation means you don't have to pay for health insurance, vacation/PTO, and other benefits.

More automation also means less workers to spend money on shyt

It's a wash

This is the real reason automation fear is overblown

 

[DJSmooth]

With 47 million people unemployed they will be replaced by the end of the day.

 

[O.iatlhawksfan]

She’s cute with it

 

[MikelArteta]

Yup you're not unionized adios. You basically left work early as a non union employee no severance nothing.

Won't even get unemployment now as you were fired

 

[MikelArteta]

With 47 million people unemployed they will be replaced by the end of the day.

this is what people don't understand. its a dog eat dog world, think of all the waitors, waitresses, uber drivers, flight attendants and countless other folks who lost their job, amazon could post an ad tomorrow for a job and prob get 1,000 applicants risks and all.

the risk of working in a warehouse is the same risk as going to walmart at the moment.

 

[iBrowse]

We all understand that they can be replaced but what this protest is saying is that the job in itself is BROKEN. Its like some city bus drivers going on strike and new hire replacements show up to work and all the busses have no tires. We all know they're replaceable, most jobs are even in the white collar world.

We’re on the same page I’m just acknowledging what is likely going to happen.

 

[klientel]

Coli clowns keep talking about automation

Pops always tells me how in the 80s when he was in construction they said it’d be no construction jobs in 20 years cuz it’ll be robots that can set steel beams and lay brick @DEAD7

30 years later we still doing the same shyt we’ve done for generations

not everything can be automated, everything that can be has already

You honestly think automation isn't going to progress?

I bet you would have been one of those dudes with a t-mobile sidekick saying "This shyt is amazing, I don't see how it can get much better than this!"

 

[klientel]

this is what people don't understand. its a dog eat dog world, think of all the waitors, waitresses, uber drivers, flight attendants and countless other folks who lost their job, amazon could post an ad tomorrow for a job and prob get 1,000 applicants risks and all.

the risk of working in a warehouse is the same risk as going to walmart at the moment.

especially young people who still have that invincible mentality when it comes to this virus.....they will show up to amazon facilities that same day ready to work.

 

[MikelArteta]

especially young people who still have that invincible mentality when it comes to this virus.....they will show up to amazon facilities that same day ready to work.

if i was unemployed I would
bring my own mask and gloves and get to work

i went to the grocery store two days ago and there were like 200 people , went to walmart this morning at 730 and it was packed

unless you stay indoors anytime you go outside the risk is there