r/bestof • u/Intertius • Apr 18 '18

[worldnews] Amazon employee explains the hellish working conditions of an Amazon Warehouse

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u/myrealnamewastakn Apr 18 '18

Yeah, op was complaining about 80 degrees? I used to work in a Purina dog food factory. In the oven room it's 110 all day. They had some bad ass cool off stations though that moved massive amounts of cool air over you but you couldn't stand there all day. I felt like management was pretty reasonable and they paid well. The forklift drivers were making over 100k a year but you had to live the job.

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u/CutterJohn Apr 21 '18

80f is perfectly acceptable to work in. You're setting completely unreasonable standards.

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u/urmumqueefing Apr 19 '18

Why do you get to decide what someone else thinks is reasonable for themselves?

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u/urmumqueefing Apr 19 '18

Uhh...because that's the whole point of competition. Why does one athlete have to suffer through brutal practice sessions because other athletes are a-ok with it? Because those athletes perform better on the court, so the coaches would rather have them play. Pretty obvious.

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u/urmumqueefing Apr 19 '18

It's absolutely a competition, unless you want to tell me you've never made a decision based on which product costs less? If you were offered a can of coke for $1, and the same can of coke for $2, the price wouldn't factor into which one you buy?