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by kmeisthax
921 days ago
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Amazon systematically underpays all their employees. They do this by encouraging employee churn, like to the point where warehouses occasionally realize "shit, we're running out of new people to hire in the entire metro area". This means they have a high tolerance for a lot of things that would be considered disqualifying. For example, in a lot of workplaces, random drug testing is mandated by insurance, which means people who smoke weed are unemployable. Amazon will hire them anyway[0]. That's not to say Amazon has no limits - they do background-check for felony convictions, and having one would make it harder to get hired by an Amazon warehouse. However, they've still built a hiring system that optimizes for hiring the precariat[1] and underpaying them so they stay precarious. They've built all the economic incentives for them to be stolen from. We don't necessarily need to prove specific allegations of theft in the same way we don't need to prove that specific cracks in the road are caused by water getting in and freezing. [0] For the record, this is a good thing, but Amazon is doing it for incredibly terrible reasons. [1] The class of people in permanent precarity - i.e. people who you can get to do anything, including run a marathon across a poorly-organized warehouse filling boxes for eight hours for little pay. |
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