Jeff Bezos and Amazon are a fucking blight upon the working class. He got rich by treating rank and file employees like hot garbage toiling under dehumanizing, backbreaking conditions for shitty pay. When there are this many random strangers across various sectors/departments of a single company sharing similar horror stories, that can’t be dismissed as just a few disgruntled ex-employees. Grievances like these are why I quit using Amazon. They made my life easier at the expense of thousands of hardworking people being mistreated and disrespected behind closed doors. (thread)
Amazon’s turnover rate is so high, mostly because they treat everyone like garbage, that they are now at risk of running out of people to hire in the US by 2024, some locations, like California, may run out as early as the end of 2022.
the turnover rate is intentional. i forget their STATED reason for the turnover, but imo it’s for the same reason they move you to a new station every night (a tactic walmart also employs), and discourage you from speaking to other workers on the job. it’s to stop organizing efforts
anyway, amazon is a modern day victorian workhouse (or as close to one as you can get without being incarcerated or undocumented or leaving the imperial core). there are improvements that could be made to worker quality of life, but the misery is the point