Evil Amazon
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JimC
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Re: Evil Amazon
Amazon puts the slave into wage slave...
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
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Re: Evil Amazon
Since they don't put much in the wages, they have to put something, don't they?
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Amazon is now so massive, that they can't do this forever, as they have run through the pool of workers. As workers leave to other jobs in the recovering economy, they will be short. By next Christmas they will need to recruit every retiree willing to pack junk for them. Drivers tend to be younger people.
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Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late
Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
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Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late
Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...
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Re: Evil Amazon
From the article Tero quoted:
$18.25 an hour is significantly above the minimum wage, which ranges from $5.15 (Wyoming and Georgia) to 13.69 (Washington DC). In New york, where the JFK8 warehouse is located, the minimum wage is pegged at $12.50/hr.Even so, work at an Amazon warehouse is often better than the alternative. JFK8 now pays at least $18.25 an hour [...] many blue-collar workers do not have a better option.
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given the conditions to which Amazon workers are subjected, I'd say that the extra is not enough to compensate what they are put through.
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... many blue-collar workers do not have a better option.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen J. Gould
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Yes, I know.
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https://esapolitics.blogspot.com
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Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late
Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...
http://esabirdsne.blogspot.com/
Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late
Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...
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Re: Evil Amazon
Cancel his passport at stage two separation.
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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I had a Kari story going on this but scrapped it. It was too real.
Guardian:
Instead, the robots are here not to replace this lower tier of underpaid and undervalued work. They are here to smugly sit in the middle, monitoring and surveilling us, hiring and firing us. Amazon has recently replaced its middle management and human resources workers with artificial intelligence to determine when a worker has outlived their usefulness and needs to be let go.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... p-dystopia
Guardian:
Instead, the robots are here not to replace this lower tier of underpaid and undervalued work. They are here to smugly sit in the middle, monitoring and surveilling us, hiring and firing us. Amazon has recently replaced its middle management and human resources workers with artificial intelligence to determine when a worker has outlived their usefulness and needs to be let go.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... p-dystopia
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Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late
Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...
http://esabirdsne.blogspot.com/
Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late
Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...
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JimC
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I for one welcome our evil Amazonian robot overlords...
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
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Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late
Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...
http://esabirdsne.blogspot.com/
Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late
Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...
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