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by Mikeb85 4582 days ago
> Would you like to be a permanent 'mechanical turk'? As in... you had zero choice in the matter and no chance to change things ever? That's not 'a bit boring'... that's soul crushing (and I mean 'soul' in a non-religious sense). Studies have shown that sort of stress causes heart disease over 'good stress' (you're manning the Very Important controls).

You have choice. To work there or not to.

By the way, welcome to pretty much every construction job ever. And depending on your priorities in life, it's not necessarily soul-crushing. The ability to leave your job at work when you go home every evening is quite under-rated...
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sentenza 4582 days ago
No. With current economic circumstances, many have the choice to work there or to not work at all.

In construction jobs you have steadily-changing tasks and work in fresh air/the sun. It might be more physically straining, but it is certainly healthier for your body and mind than working as a human robot at Amazon.

Also: Nobody is complaining that working at Amazon is not the greatest job on the planet. The scandal is that it would take so little effort on the part of Amazon to significantly improve the working experience.

We wouldn't tolerate a sweatshop operating in the western world. So why do we continue to tolerate Henry Ford style assembly line work?

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VLM 4582 days ago
"The scandal is that it would take so little effort on the part of Amazon to significantly improve the working experience."

I have observed bait n switch as a labor force management technique... lure in "good" workers by promising awful pay and benefits not, but 4 years in its pretty awesome. Then make actual conditions, procedures, and policies such that everyone is fired or quits by 6 months in.

Used to see this a lot for health insurance. Nobody gets insurance for first 90 days, coincidentally everyone is fired for cause or quits in disgust less than two months in.

A business can save a lot of money that way. Not saying its right, just explaining why a business would intentionally boost their turnover rate or refuse to make the simplest change to lower their turnover rate. Its not a bug, its a performance eval oriented bonus rewarded feature.

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Mikeb85 4582 days ago
> In construction jobs you have steadily-changing tasks and work in fresh air/the sun.

Here that means you work in minus 40 degree C weather...

And steadily changing tasks? Have you ever done any stints in construction?

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