09.20.11
Bezos Slave Labor Sweat Shop
Help make Jeff Bezos the richest man in the world. Work at an Amazon warehouse sweatshop in the scenic Pennsy Dutch Lehigh Valley. Enjoy the amenities of getting computerized e-mail notifications of temperature being so hot in the building you’ll suffer from heat exhaustion. Because Amazon cares so much, ambulances from a local company are kept onsite to take you to the hospital.
Don’t worry. While you’re being written up for missing work another temporary worker is being groomed.
One inspirational story from the house Bezos built:
One temporary employee who spent several months unloading boxes of books in the Amazon warehouse said: “Everybody gets backaches, but if you slow down, they reprimand you. They’re killing people mentally and physically. They just push, push, push.”
During one shift he hurt himself. After seeing a doctor, the worker went on “light duty.” The staffing firm didn’t have any such assignments available. So every scheduled work day he reported to the ISS office on Tilghman Street.
“You’re not allowed to walk around,” he said. “They put a chair in the corner and you sit there.”
His job was to count the number of people coming into the office. Another person he observed on light duty had to count how many trains passed by outside the office window.
Beatings will continues until morale improves.
Not by coincidence this is a “beggar they neighbor” corporate economic strategy, one which feeds off the atrocious job market by taking advantage of the desperation of laborers. The laborers, who will take ever decreasing compensation in relationship to work performed, make the goods cheaper but profits to those who already have the most, soar.