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Amazon To Add 100,000 Full-Time US Jobs in Next 18 Months (geekwire.com)
An anonymous reader shares a GeekWire report: Amazon just made a big statement about its continued growth aspirations, announcing that it plans to add another 100,000 full-time jobs in the U.S. over the next 18 months, an increase of more than 55 percent in its domestic workforce. The growth would push Amazon's U.S. workforce to more than 280,000 people by mid 2018. Amazon said in an announcement that the jobs will be available to people "all across the country and with all types of experience, education and skill levels -- from engineers and software developers to those seeking entry-level positions and on-the-job training."
Sort of like Amazonian hookers
Making America Great Again.
(I'm just kidding)
Amazon is a brutal place to work, basically slave labor until they can automating away the need for meat bags.
Cool, but Amazon is simply cannibalizing the retail sector. That 100,000 jobs probably represents 1/3 (or more) of the total retail sector jobs that will be lost as Amazon pushes out less efficient players in the market. I'm all for it, I love Amazon, but let's not fool ourselves into thinking this is something that is going to be happy for the "fight for $15" crowd in the country. (They will be unemployed).
You can rest assured that this is one company that wont credit Trump in any way for these jobs.
Temps, staffing firms, 30 hour working 40-50? most of the time?, 40 hour working 50-60 most of the time? H1B's?
What jobs are they talking about.
They forgot to add that after the 18 months are over, they'll invoke the elastic job scaling script:
workforceSize.reduce(-100,000,'salary15.00')
Amazon will ship my order in one box instead of three or four boxes when I checked the box to group my order together? I usually don't go to my post office box unless I have a handful of packages coming in. Amazon splitting my order into multiple boxes multiplies the number of tracking numbers I can need to keep tabs on.
H1B's, no doubt about it
My guess is that they're just extrapolating out an estimate of the number of people it will take to run their new in-house FedEx/UPS service and staff warehouses. Also, if I were a retailer, I'd be banking on trying to capitalize on Sears and Macy's likely bankruptcies in the next 18 months. Macy's might survive in a smaller form but I'm sure Sears is going to be parted out because it's being run by a hedge fund. I doubt technical jobs will be a double-digit percent of this amount -- it's going to be line-level grunts packing boxes, flying planes, driving delivery trucks, etc.
I've also heard many stories about how Amazon is to work for in both technical and ground level positions. I don't think I'd want a tech position there, even though they're working on really cool stuff with AWS. Accounts from alumni I've heard describe it as a huge employer who's insanely tight-fisted and never grew up out of startup crunch mode. Their perfect employee is a fresh grad with no previous experience that will say nothing of working nights, weekends, etc. for low pay. I think the phrase "Seattle hundreds" was coined there initially. Add that to the pressure-cooker back stabbing culture I've heard described many times, and I think I'll pass!
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Yeah, I didn't think so.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
You can rest assured that this is one company that wont credit Trump in any way for these jobs.
But you can rest assured that Trump himself will try to claim some credit. That's just how he rolls.
I'm not sure why this matters.
Adding 100,000 domestic workers in the US seems like it's a good thing. It even seems quite likely that many (if not all) of these jobs could have been outsourced or performed in a foreign office, and Amazon itself says that these are "across the board" jobs, and not simply seasonal or fulfilment slave-labor.
And you should also admit that Trump is largely the source of the "hire local" climate, he's caused companies to rethink their outsourcing plans, especially in light of the alternative candidate who said explicitly that she wants completely open borders for job seekers.
But none of that matters. I don't think many people really care who takes the credit.
Is it important to you?
Help me out here.
Why should credit even matter?
Better that you realize the world is changing and you bow down to Seattle now.
(ducks)
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Why should credit even matter?
Trump takes credit for everything that makes him look good even though he had nothing to do with it. He will constantly remind people that he is so awesome that he refers to himself in the third-person (i.e., "If Putin likes Donald Trump — guess what, folks, that's called an asset, not a liability."). It's going to be a long four years.
And that's important?
I think what's important is the reality, not the spin. The important bit from the article is that we get 100,000 more jobs.
I think you're focusing on the wrong goals.
And additionally, you're imagining a fantasy situation just so you can complain how bad that fantasy situation is.
But hey, fantasy simulation seems like it'll be the next big thing in VR.
Knock yourself out.
Amazon: Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers (February 23, 2014)
... CenturyLink (CTL) customers trying to access particular sites from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. will have unbearably slow speeds."
Amazon: Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace (August 15, 2015) Quote: "The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers..."
Amazon: Amazon Under Fire Over Alleged Worker Abuse in Germany (February 19, 2013)
Microsoft: Microsoft Is Filled With Abusive Managers And Overworked Employees, Says Tell-All Book (May 23, 2012)
Seattle: Together with Microsoft and bad city management, Seattle is a miserable place:
Traffic: Seattle one of the worst U.S. cities for traffic congestion, tied with NYC (March 31, 2015) Quote: "An additional 23 minutes a day spent in traffic may not sound like much, but when it adds up over a year it becomes 89 hours." (Whoever wrote that must be accustomed to Seattle misery. An additional 23 minutes a day spent in traffic sounds HORRIBLE.)
Slow internet: Many areas of Seattle have poor internet connections. See the article, These places have the slowest Internet in the country. (June 25, 2015) Quote: "... Seattle
And keep in mind, Obama is still our President for another week.
Obama is training his replacement. That the inexperienced new guy claiming credit isn't unexpected. Obama's next job will be a Uber driver in Washington, D.C., area.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/president-obama-jokes-about-becoming-an-uber-driver-after-leaving-office/
Your post made me remember that Meg Whitman killed HP. I think I recently gave that honor to Fiorina by mistake. The 2 are so terrible in the same exact ways I get them confused.
Unless Amazon is really believing they will increase sales by 50% and that it will all be new sales instead of sales taken from other stores, this is just moving jobs from other companies, like UPS, and putting them at Amazon.
This looks like a likely net job loss for the country due to increased efficiency of shipping and even more pressure on small businesses due to reducing the value of the immediacy of shopping down the street.
If not for walmart, It could also be seen as leveraging their monopoly and unhealthy due to adding to their vertical depth. Is a "duopoly" bad when it damages or destroys thousands of small businesses that spread wealth more effectively?
Amazon warehouses hire people on temporary contracts through a temp agency just before christmas and then lays them off in January.
So does UPS, Fed Ex, many major airlines, and other shipping/travel related companies. It's called seasonal positions. In fact, seasonal work was what eventually led to the job I have now which pays pretty well for someone my age/in my area.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
Especially for the people who think that the stock market will continue to go up even though we're overdue for a recession. I'm building up a cash reserve for when the market falls so I can buy on the way down. That's where the real money is made.
Many of the warehouse jobs are part-time and they hire tons of temps over the holiday season to avoid having to pay overtime to the part-timers. I spoke with a friend that works part-time in one of their warehouses and he said that he got fewer hours over the holiday season than last year because of the number of temps that they hired. So the number of workers will go up but the hours of the existing workers could potentially decline.
I'm inclined to agree based on this amazon result, sprint, carrier, Ford, kicking foreign cheap HB1 labor out, alibaba possibly too - probably more too!
This is all just Trump's PR machine taking credit for things that happen all the time anyway. According to The Reshoring Initiative, about 3000 jobs per month moved back to the US from 2009-2016. In 2015 it was almost 5600 jobs per month. With Carrier saving 800 jobs immediately, Sprint creating 5000 jobs over 12 months, and Ford creating 700 jobs in an undetermined amount of time, it all comes up to well under 1000 jobs per month. And arguably only a few hundred of them would have been counted by the Reshoring Initiative, so it's an even smaller number compared to previous years than it looks. These are all just very small deals being made at a local level which happen all of the time.
When presidents save jobs, they do it millions at a time. Like when Obama saved an estimated 1.5 million automotive jobs through TARP. It's not fair to compare Trump's accomplishments with Obama's since Trump hasn't entered office yet, but these minor news stories are the type of wins a mayor or governor would brag about, not a President elect. The type of deal making where Trump sits in an office with individual business owners (even if the business is as big as Ford) is not the type which will make meaningful change for American workers.
-- All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -- Edmund Burke
Strange, it appears from a cursory search that Amazon doesn't sell live hornets.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
These workers will need lunches, cars, work clothes, etc. You get the picture. We are just scratching the surface.