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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
It's not about "like." It's about paying the electric bill and putting food on the table. No one is entitled to like what they do for a living. They're certainly allowed to seek a job they like better (if they're the type that allows stress to get to them, and haven't discovered how to leave work at work), and they're even allowed to land one that they love (if they work hard enough and search long enough to find one), but no one is owed employment they enjoy for the salary they wish to be making. That's the myth. Perpetuated by those who've forgotten how long and how hard they worked to find a job they didn't hate (or were lucky enough to have one gifted to them).
And people are welcome to seek out those types of positions if they like. But those jobs and those companies are the aberrations. Not the other way 'round.
Demonizing Amazon for being an average employer is silly.
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All I can say is that it is my experience that lower stress jobs and companies that treat employees decently are the rule rather than the exception. The only companies that I've run across that acts like Amazon is said to act are consulting firms with their dog eat dog, up or out approach. While in high school and college, I worked a lot of minimum wage jobs - fast food, gas stations attendant (back in the days when we checked the oil and washed the windshield in addition to pumping gas), moving furniture and painting rooms. Heck, I even delivered papers when I was 11, worked as a tutor in high school and worked in a children's library. I was never ever treated as described.
If Amazon is the norm, then they wouldn't have to pay above market rates to hire people and retain employees. Acting poorly has it's costs.