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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
Because I was never sent home early from work due to a lack of business.
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Not only
that, but oftentimes, the option to go home early is offered to those who have seniority. It's usually only when that fails to reduce the workforce sufficiently that those on the bottom rungs start getting kicked off. It's not the atrocious behavior that many might think it is. Some actually see getting sent home early as a
reward. Regardless of the hit they take on that week's paycheck.
In the US, anyway, the same goes for layoffs. I've never worked in a production-type environment where "voluntary layoff" wasn't
offered to seniority before they started mandatory layoffs from the bottom up. And some people
always volunteer. Always. But those voluntary numbers never make it into any official reports.
Are people truly
that out of touch with how manual labor/production-based industries operate? There's nothing particularly heinous OR exemplary about Amazon's warehouse conditions that I've read about. I'd say they were fairly average in fact.