Current Events > Anyone think that Amazon seems to favor hiring people from poor neighborhoods?

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I don't know why honestly when there are plenty of people in upper middle class or affluent neighborhoods looking for work

Hotels, restaurants, or even the airport doesn't seem to have trouble attracting workers from well off upper middle class families.

Why can't Amazon?

I wouldn't even be surprised if a lot of people in rich neighborhoods are uncomfortable with poor people delivering to them and that they would rather have what they consider "normal" people deliver to them (as fucked up as that sounds)

This topic is both fucked up and also completely clueless.

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Tote_All_ posted...

This topic is both fucked up and also completely clueless.

That tracks for Scion.

Most people that work for Amazon are working class, unless you are a programmer, marketing, financing, corporate etc.

I don't think they seek certain neighborhoods. There would have to be some data to prove otherwise. It's just that people with relevant qualifications/skills apply to said fields

Murphiroth posted...

That tracks for Scion.

This. Just par for the course.

Capitalism. Putting them in the cycle of exploited labor while also making them rely on the company and its services.

Same shit Walmart does.

Damn I almost forgot about the piss bottle incident

poor people are easier to exploit.

https://valuetainment.com/amazon-finally-has-an-employee-they-dont-have-to-worry-will-start-a-union-its-a-robot/

Big news from Amazon, as the Seattle company announced they have their first autonomous mobile robot, and it has a name. Proteus.

According to Amazon, Proteus is pretty talented and can safely navigate around human employees, which is a definite step up from earlier iterations of a robot that they had to keep locked up in a cage.

Proteus robots apparently have advanced safety, perception, and navigation technology which keeps them from running over humans who may cross their path.

Okay, so they have what appears to be a functional robot whom the company doesnt have to worry about calling in sick or raiding the petty cash drawer. But there are some downfalls, specifically labor concerns for Amazon. The company had to announce that they were not building robots in order to hire fewer humans.

Heres a quote from the head of Amazons robotics division to Forges. Replacing people with machines is just fallacy.

Okay. Not exactly reassuring for warehouse workers hoping to keep their job a long time.

There could be lots of robots on the Amazon payroll, as more appear to be on the drawing board. According to a story in the Verge, the company is trying to perfect a root that can deliver containers to workers instead of having them risk serious back injuries by breeding or climbing to reach items.

Warehouse workers are reportedly injured at twice the national average...

https://youtu.be/S6ghy86nTM0

reminds me of the giant factory they plopped right into a very poor neighborhood

I have no idea what background anyone who works for a delivery service comes from. Most of them wear uniforms so I couldn't make that determination even if I cared.

WingsOfGood posted...

reminds me of the giant factory they plopped right into a very poor neighborhood

That makes sense sadly because real estate is cheaper there

The poorer one is, the easier it is to be taken advantage of

^depressing

The idea is that nobody would willingly work for Amazon if other options were available.

What was the piss bottle incident

SauI_Goodman posted...

What was the piss bottle incident

Amazon was so strict on time constraints and forcing their drivers to go as fast as possible to deliver the most packages in the shortest amount of time that they frowned upon people using the bathroom and penalized them for so

ScionTC_07 posted...

Amazon was so strict on time constraints and forcing their drivers to go as fast as possible to deliver the most packages in the shortest amount of time that they frowned upon people using the bathroom and penalized them for so

Yikes

It really was inhumane