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ProfCrash · 03-12-2013, 01:55 PM

Nothing all that new. If anyone had done a search on the internet, they would have found similar articles from the US Warehouses.

The nature of the work force is changing. Yes, that sucks but what do people expect? Attitudes towards workers rights have shifted, Unions are being attacked (at least in the US), and individuals are interested in saving money and limiting the number of benefits that an employee gets is a great way to drop the price of any given item.

This has been happening for a long time. Amazon is not doing anything that other companies running warehouses are doing. If you think that the warehouse used to send out internet orders from BN are run any differently, I have a bridge to sell you for a really good price.

We all have a choice. We can choose to pay the lowest price and allow the warehouse model to continue to grow or we can shop at local stores and pay higher prices but hope that the employees are getting benefits of some sort.

Then again, I never got benefits when I worked retail in college and grad school. I have a sneaking suspicion that most of the worker bees are not getting benefits.

03-12-2013, 01:55 PM	#9
ProfCrash Tea Enthusiast Posts: 8,554 Karma: 75384937 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Somewhere in the USA Device: Kindle1, Kindle DX Graphite, K3 3G, IPad 3, PW2	Nothing all that new. If anyone had done a search on the internet, they would have found similar articles from the US Warehouses. The nature of the work force is changing. Yes, that sucks but what do people expect? Attitudes towards workers rights have shifted, Unions are being attacked (at least in the US), and individuals are interested in saving money and limiting the number of benefits that an employee gets is a great way to drop the price of any given item. This has been happening for a long time. Amazon is not doing anything that other companies running warehouses are doing. If you think that the warehouse used to send out internet orders from BN are run any differently, I have a bridge to sell you for a really good price. We all have a choice. We can choose to pay the lowest price and allow the warehouse model to continue to grow or we can shop at local stores and pay higher prices but hope that the employees are getting benefits of some sort. Then again, I never got benefits when I worked retail in college and grad school. I have a sneaking suspicion that most of the worker bees are not getting benefits.