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This doesn’t surprise me of the USA, at all.
I'm sorry, are you not a multi-billion-dollar company dominating the global markets? Are you suddenly confused and thinking you're running a charity that requires regular donations? Are your 99% tax exemptions not enough to cover your bases? What world do you think you're living in?
Sure. But have you considered that line must go up?
How about paying your staff for the work they should do?
How much money does Bezos make per hour? Ah yes, about 7,9 million USD. (2023).
Stop making rich people richer.
Surely that maths is wrong and/or we have different meanings of the word "make".
Pretty sure they mean million.
Yupp. Thanks. Corrected.
I have a salaried job, and from time to time when there's a big order we are asked to help out the manufacturing team, which is paid hourly. It tends to be repetitive assembly-line stuff, but it can be a fun change from the office work.
It's not unusual during specific times to redeploy people temporarily where they are needed more. The alternative is to hire a bunch of seasonal staff. You have to train them anyway, but at least by redeploying existing people you at least know they are reliable.
Great – when there’s a service outage you can help the engineers!
The manager said volunteers are “needed” to work Tuesday through Friday this week, in two-hour shifts between 10am and 6pm in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, where the company operates a warehouse as part of its grocery delivery service, Amazon Fresh.
Sounds like they're getting paid but I'm really hung up on the word "volunteer". If I'm paid my regular wage and can fit it, really not a problem.
I run a ransomware recovery department at my company. We don't staff the department beyond us three managers. When we get an IR, we ask for volunteers in the normal staff to work for us. They get 1.5x + $25/ hour and a $50/day Uber Eats credit for working 4 hours OT.
We get a lot of volunteers.
I doubt Amazon is doing anything like that. If they don't get enough volunteers, I could see them switching to "volunteer or else."
Oh, absolutely not. And I'm in the Seattle area. We get good workers, but the region is saturated by people who expect Amazon level pay... So, we do what we can.
But then who will have a meeting and capture the action item to have another meeting afterwards?!
Where I live this would be just regular ask to stay for overtime