Quantcast
Channel: billionaire
Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 97

A Reply to an Amazon Recruiter

0
0

💲🤑🔥—Those weren't acceptable in the caption for the title image, but they belong there.

______,

Thanks for the kind words, but I absolutely cannot work for a company like Amazon whose leaders so routinely and brazenly exploit their workers, especially those who work the warehouses. With what I've heard are 11-second timings per parcel, or something similar, and a quota system that runs them ragged, with no concern on the part of upper management with their safety or welfare, even to the extent of major injuries and death—and then the utter refusal by upper management to take any discernable responsibility for such incidents—as well as the gross pandemic "war profiteering" that has happened in the last year or two, and the both vertical and horizontal monopolies that Amazon has so efficiently achieved, including a substantial lockdown on many of the supply chains for so many products, I simply cannot and will not support that kind of a business.
Frankly, much of what Amazon does reminds me all too much of the Chicago meatpacking scene in the early 1900s, as so well documented by Upton Sinclair in The Jungle. Except on steroids.
I apologize if I've rained on your parade, but I have much more interesting and useful things to do.
I would hope that you and your co-workers would seriously consider some of my observations about the company you work for, but I'm not holding my breath.
I don't think that Amazon can be made better from inside, not even by those with conscience. My considered opinion is that it's high time that this behemoth be broken up, before even more workers are needlessly exploited, and before Amazon ends up owning the entire supply chain.
I have similar feelings toward most or all of the major tech companies, and toward most of the "too big to fail" businesses of any description.
In what is supposed to be a democracy, but in which you are all but required to surrender most or all of your Constitutional rights at the office door, my considered opinion is that that is fundamentally no longer a democracy.
We need major corporate reform, and we need it yesterday. We need mega-corporations and very wealthy individuals to be accountable to we the people, not just to their very wealthy shareholders and whoever else actually pulls the puppet strings. The model of the future, and what should have been the model of the past, is businesses that are worker-owned, locally-based, and accountable locally, with an actual stake in the welfare of the community where they reside and pay taxes, and that they provide goods and services to.
I don't expect a reply—and I'm sure this wasn't the reply you were expecting from me—but hopefully I've given you some food for thought.
Best wishes,
___


Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 97

Latest Images

Trending Articles





Latest Images