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Originally Posted by SensualPoet
An unsung story for Amazon is the amazing number of jobs they are creating and HAVE created in the past 18 months as they have expanded the number US-based distribution centres.
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You know, I'm not sure how happy I am about that given that Amazon warehouses appear to be glorified sweat shops.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/1..._n_387847.html
http://techland.time.com/2011/09/21/...by-paramedics/
They basically hire hordes of temp workers in order to avoid giving them benefits, work them until they collapse, and fire them. You know it's bad when a single ER doctor is seeing your employees so frequently that they call the authorities.
I know we need jobs in this country. But I don't know if I can say in good conscience that we need them bad enough to allow employers to treat employees like this. This is America, supposedly a developed nation, and in developed nations we supposedly don't require people to kill themselves just to pay rent. I'm not going to celebrate people being worked until they stroke out.