Last year, only a third of Amazon’s new hires stayed with the company for more than 90 days before quitting, being fired, or getting laid off
The report, which is based off internal research papers, slide decks, and spreadsheets from Amazon, claims that workers are twice as likely to leave by choice, rather than because they were laid off or fired. It also says that the issue is widespread throughout the company, not just with warehouse workers; from entry level roles all the way up to vice presidents, the lowest attrition rate for one of the company’s 10 tiers of employees was almost 70 percent, with the highest reaching a staggering 81.3 percent.
I think of billionaires more as “Utilitarian Demons” than Rocko’s basilisks. The basilisk is vengeful and wants everyone opposed to it to suffer and die. Bezos and his group simply don’t care if the poor live or die, unless it directly affects their wealth, making them less terrifying but more insidious - a banal evil.
:shocked-pikachu:
This is good news right?
Well, they can either make conditions nicer or lobby the government to discipline the labor force by making the lives of the working class more precarious. Who’s to say what management will choose.
bezos just has to grease the right palms and hand some legislation over to the right ghouls making Amazon a national security infrastructure, then they can make it illegal for workers to strike and possibly call quitting wildcat striking and prosecute people for it
this has the ring of something completely absurd but the more I think about it the more it seems likely in the next decade
call quitting wildcat striking and prosecute people for it
Ngl gonna need you to step away from the lathe here
As an older person, I have been in a constant state of disbelief that my peers and elders can’t make the connection between capitalism and this corporate behavior towards us for all my adult life. Like 8 billion dollars couldn’t be paid out instead for extra staff and better work conditions.
Like somehow this is the result of some funny coincidence that all these rich business owners just have poor character. Like somewhere there’s someone at the top of capitalist business that’s a sweet, kind and fair person…but they’ve just never seen them.
Meanwhile they learn that there were laws put in place to prevent child labor, like it was some oopsie that was casually rectified and not the principle driving force of capitalism.
It has always staggered my common sense that Americans can deny that this is Capitalism. That’s it. That’s what it is. How many times do you have to see it right in front of your face at work or the store or anywhere. There it is.
Meanwhile they learn that there were laws put in place to prevent child labor, like it was some oopsie that was casually rectified and not the principle driving force of capitalism.
People learn about that and the eight hour workday and breaks and osha but they are never taught that these things came about because union workers were literally fighting, with guns, to the death, to make it all happen
So amazon is absolutley going to start using prison labour in the next few years right? When can we expect bezos to start a private prison/amazon warehouse?
Let me look at this through a lib lens:
Soon, Amazon will partner with the government to help rehabilitate inmates through on-the-job training programs
This is absolutely coming. I remember last year seeing some ghoul CEO of a background check company espousing hiring formerly incarcerated folks as a means to “address the hiring crisis”. Which of course, between the lines, means “untapped labor pool that can further depress wages”.
Why wait until they’re formerly incarcerated? :porky-happy:
Amazon’s new warehouse employee training exec used to manage private prisons https://www.popsci.com/technology/amazons-exec-private-prisons/
How am I not surprised my ghoulish takes are already part of bezos’ plans
that might be more difficult for them as they are a shipping company and prisons tend to be in the middle of nowhere
there are real logistical issues involved with that
