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12-11-2014, 12:21 PM | #48 |
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While I agree with you entirely, I do feel obligated to point out that standing on a street corner with a cardboard sign claiming to be a disabled Vietnam vet would have better hours, better pay and better working conditions. And if you can beat the guy currently there in a knife fight, there's always a corner available.
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And this year they paid 7.65 million dollars in a class action lawsuit involving unpaid overtime Apache |
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12-11-2014, 12:27 PM | #51 |
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Varies greatly by state. Enforcement, that is; federal law is pretty clear. Unpaid overtime is illegal, period, everywhere in the US. (The trick is to fudge the definition of overtime, as this case shows.) Some states, like California, are pretty rigid in their enforcement, as several large companies have found out (like Walmart).
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12-11-2014, 06:27 PM | #54 | |
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You're right about Firefox. It does work with Chrome and Safari.
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12-11-2014, 07:51 PM | #57 | ||
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I mean, really? Amazon should be the party penalized, because the employees are thieves? By PAYING those employees? For the honor of what--because the employees stole so much that they had to take security measures? So that the thieving behavior should be REWARDED? "Oh, gosh, employee Jane Doe, we're sorry that you and your fellow workers stole so much merchandise from us that we had to spend [a hundred thousand] bucks, train security people, pay them, etc., to stand here and scan you, to prevent you from stealing from US. But don't you worry, we're going to REWARD you by paying for you to stand in this line, the one that exists to keep you from stealing!" Irony much? Oh, hells, no. That's wrong on so many levels it's hard to discuss. It's AMAZON that was stolen from, and its customers. It's AMAZON that had to pay for the equipment to screen for thieving employees. It's AMAZON that has to pay, train, etc., the security employees to carry out the security tasks. It's AMAZON that has to eat the costs of all the theft that happened that was the trigger for this in the first place. Why on EARTH should Amazon now have to eat the costs of rewarding those employees--the same ones that stole so much that this ever even HAPPENED--to stand in a line that is the DIRECT result of their own actions? This is grown-up world, folks. Cause and effect. Bad behavior, meet consequence. Quote:
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12-11-2014, 08:49 PM | #58 | |
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Really, Amazon is spending all this money for the giggles, because they like being mean to their workers. There wasn't any theft, that was just an excuse. Okay, I'm convinced. Amazon SHOULD be paying them wages, if part and parcel of working for Amazon is to sit through these inscrutable psychology experiments. I wonder how much the APA is paying for this? |
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Amazon are so cheap.
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