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by pjc50 247 days ago
Normally I'd be against this kind of thing, but Amazon warehouse work is notoriously abusive and people would be better off out of it .. if they had alternatives.
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There were some bad weather incidents where warehouse workers were not permitted to seek shelter from tornados = from which they died [0].

Additionally, the warehouses are staffed by contractors, who once laid off from the subcontracting company are permabanned from ever working for any other contracting company that Amazon will use. Amazon is literally running out of humans that they can hire. If they are unwilling to address their "one and done" policy, Amazon will have to use robots in order to stay in business.

0 - https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/20/amazon-warehouse-in-illinois...

I strongly feel the same way about agriculture. Farm work is back breaking, and the people who work in the fields are constantly exposed to pesticides and other environmental dangers, not to mention the physical severely dangerous work they do at times automating that kind of labor would be much safer for workers.