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Old 08-19-2013, 01:03 PM   #13
fjtorres
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Originally Posted by HansTWN View Post
Exactly. It is not as if they are forcing people to work there. If those workers can do so much better elsewhere, why don't they just quit? Amazon can only pay them as much as their labor brings in for the company.
Amazon pays about 50% *above* the US federal minimum wage and they provide a variety of employee perks including paying for upward mobility training/education.
There is no question they are cheapskates but they are hardly serf-lords.

Amusingly, their compensation packages are way superior to the typical B&M bookstore employee.

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