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The Secret Lives of Amazon's Elves

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the supply-meets-demand dept.

theodp writes "If Amazon is Santa, says Gizmodo's Joel Johnson, then the 400 folks living in RVs outside the Coffeyville, KS fulfillment center at Christmas time are the elves. Amazon didn't always lure in 'workcampers' from the RV community with the promise of free campgrounds and $10.50-$11 an hour seasonal jobs. 'Amazon had a bad experience busing in people from Tulsa,' explained tech nomad Chris Dunphy. 'There was a lot of theft and a lot of people who weren't really serious.' Workers from Tulsa were adding a 4-hour round-trip commute to a grueling 10-to-12 hour shift, Cherie Ve Ard added. 'They'd get there exhausted.' The work wasn't exactly what Cherie had envisioned."

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  1. The point is ?... by Shadow-Copy · · Score: -1, Troll

    How does this make a Article?

    Perhaps, there is some key point of etiology I am missing here?

    There is no reason for you to "knock" Amazon. This article is just a suggested opinion other then probable fact ...

  2. So this is what its ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    come to.

    THIS is Amazon's "Cloud"!

    What a waste ... Amazon is just a SLAVE SHIP!

    It will be a happy day, happy hour, happy second, when I can call-in JB's Coords to a Preditor and watch his obileteration in real-time.