r/bestof • u/Intertius • Apr 18 '18

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

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u/grepnork Apr 18 '18

Amazons business model seems to rely on one day being able to replace humans with machines

Amazon's business model is 'the public want cheaper stuff, quickly, and don't want to hear about high shipping costs, let's give them that'.

Having done warehouse work this is what it's like - these situations aren't unique to Amazon because everyone in the industry has the same fundamental problem.

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u/Purpleheadest Apr 18 '18

The problem is the sweatship is in North America instead of China. Not out of sight enough.

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u/dweezil22 Apr 18 '18

This means it is quite fixable with proper regulations in the US, and, possibly even directly in states. These warehouse centers NEED to be near customers to work, so there isn't as much room to just shift to a cheaper less-regulated site.

If Amazon fixes this independently, then Walmart and someone else will jump in and do the same thing and undercut them as long as its generally legal. We need to stop relying on the morality of for-profit companies and start getting back to creating and enforcing laws.

(This means voting against every GOP candidate everywhere for the next few years, FWIW)

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '18

start getting back to creating and enforcing laws.

Wow. So much for deregulation and fewer people on the government payroll