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Amazon Looks to Hire 30,000 Part-Time Employees in US (fortune.com)
Amazon's hiring spree is in full force. From a report: The online retailer on Thursday announced plans to hire 30,000 part-time workers in the U.S. over the next year, including 5,000 positions that will allow employees to work from home as customer service representatives. Amazon's incoming part-time employees will work 20 or more hours and receive benefits. About 25,000 of the positions Amazon has floated will work in the company's sorting and fulfillment centers, a nod to the company's plans to boost the number of logistics facilities across the U.S. in the coming years. According to Amazon, all of its part-time workers are eligible for a Career Choice program that pre-pays 95 percent of an employee's tuition if he or she is working in fields that Amazon says are "in demand."
Amazon Looks to Hire 30,000 Part-Time Employees in US
In other news, 300,000 US customer service workers lose their jobs because of competition with Amazon. But I'm sure our economy will create new and better jobs for them, so this is good news for them.
-- All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -- Edmund Burke
They are doing this to cut their expenses. I understand why small businesses might need to do it, but close this loophole for big ultraprofitable megacorps like Amazon. Also quit allowing them to stash their profits overseas and avoid paying tax. This should be a bipartisan effort, and any politician opposed to it should be voted out of office.
Way to go, Amazon!
Not that if you were hiring 30,000 part timers you couldn't afford to hire 10,000-15,000 full timers instead or anything, eh?
This is NOT good news.
announced plans to hire 30,000 part-time workers in the U.S. over the next year, including 5,000 positions that will allow employees to work from home as customer service representatives. Amazon's incoming part-time employees will work 20 or more hours and receive benefits. About 25,000 of the positions Amazon has floated will work in the company's sorting and fulfillment centers...
So they're only hiring 5K work-from-home CS positions, the rest of these are just an expansion of their horrible warehouse positions. Aren't they always taking applications for those jobs?
Hey I agree that part time jobs are better than no jobs but they are no match for full time.
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Sears actually put in a financial statement a couple weeks ago that they don't feel confident they're going to make it. Macy's is on the way out as well. This is a shift I never thought I'd see and it seems to be happening at an extremely fast pace. Given how bad the reports are on how Amazon is as an employer, I'm assuming they're just preparing to hire a bunch of desperate people suddenly thrown out of their jobs and willing to take anything.
I guess it's OK that they're hiring 30,000 part-timers, but the reality is that people who have gone beyond the college or high school student phase of their lives need full time work with benefits. Also, a lot of these jobs are probably in their "fulfillment centers" where people are working like robots in warehouses, while Amazon figures out how to replace them with actual robots.
No matter how many gig economy jobs you string together, nothing is going to make life easy for a family whose workers are only working part time and have no benefits. It's like we haven't learned anything in the last 100 years since the Gilded Age was put to bed. This rapidly accelerating destruction of retail is probably just the first wave of what will be an extended period of massive unemployment. We had better figure out something for all these people to do quickly, or give them a basic income and call it a day. Otherwise the guillotines are going to make a comeback...
These are "box thrower" positions, and not technical.
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
If you read the article, it also says this:
"The 30,000 hiring spree Amazon announced on Thursday follows the company's announcement in January that it plans to hire 100,000 full-time employees by the middle of next year"
I don't understand all the fury over Amazon and mega corps replacing small businesses. When IT and business people love The Cloud! AWS, cloud based computing, cloud apps that replace entire departments... We all love The Cloud. All hail The Cloud.
It's all the same thing.
I bet /. outsourced their computing to the cloud...
No healthcare matching, no retirement. Just a job.
Pretty sure they are paying social security tax like the rest of us. How is that not retirement?
Not to mention they could always save something to retire on...
Why does every job have to come with extra benefits? What is wrong with people working a much more relaxed schedule, which may mean a vastly higher quality of life than a 40+ (really 60) hour a week job?
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Maybe, until everyone figures out that he had no intention on following through with most of his promises.
What is with you Trump-haters and promises?
What other president has kept all, or even most of his promises? So what makes you think ANYONE expects Trump to keep all of them or will be mad at all if he does not?
Seriously, the ONLY ones I see constantly harping about promises are the Haters, never the Trump supporters.
Trump was elected because of who he was, and how he spoke. Trump was elected because of who Hillary was, and how SHE spoke. Not because of promises made by either the world knew were manginess and conditional.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Work from home, make 80K a month. I get those mails all the time. This time they tried to make it look like a press release from Amazon. The editors seem to have fallen for it.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
How the fuck does someone budget for cancer treatment?
The original poster did say you save AND BUY INSURANCE like an adult.
Something really expensive is exactly what insurance is for.
Do you have $5 million budgeted in?
Yes, because I have health insurance.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I say that sincerely.
Other people are complaining because these are part time jobs - but if Hillary were president Amazon would be layout off 30k workers, not hiring new ones, in addition to all the traditional retail job loss that would have been accelerating even faster.
Some jobs are better than no jobs.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
This is interesting. Work-from-home CS jobs aren't a new thing, but aren't widely deployed either. It can be tough to monitor remote workers, although phone calls have a lot of good metrics associated with them that are easier than some tasks. The rest are part-time warehouse positions, which are fine for what they are, but aren't breaking new ground just expanding what they already have.
I'd really love to see some more corporate knowledge worker roles be able to move part-time, though. I work for a good employer, my work is interesting, but I'd really just like to be at work in general a bit less. There's not a lot of market for a "freelance" project manager the same way a coder or designer might be able to pick up. I'd just like to work on half the number of projects, and take home less pay. I'd be happy to work 3 days a week for $60K and the low-tier health plan, instead of more than double that plus considerably more expensive benefits and matching etc.
Apparently you hadn't noticed, but neither of them is in office.
Also, not sure if you'd noticed, but nothing seems to be improving much...shocking how many people think that Obamacare is different from the ACA...just daffy.
They work their people to death.
I'm getting headhunted by Amazon. Is it a good place to work or not?
"I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
When Obama inherited a shitshow, eight years later, it was still Bush's fault.
Now that Trump's inherited a shitshow (the economy is so great that job growth is largely part time/contractor with no health insurance, and retailers are closing physical stores right and left)... Yep, it's Trump's fault.
If by some miracle our economy comes out of fucktarded mode over the next few years, it'll all be due to the greater glory of whatever asshole hasn't even been elected yet in 2024.
Otherwise the SJWs are going to come whining here about inequality.
This was about Amazon, wasn't it?
Following the links, it seems they pay ~12/hour in California for laborers. No work-at-home listings were found. You might gross $1K/month. It could be a step up for an Uber driver. But there is a cost that all job hunters pay: you give up privacy big time. They can do anything they want with your data, including altering it, now and forever; here in the words of Amazon:
"1. are acknowledging that you have read the job description for the position you are applying for and that you understand the basic requirements needed to perform the job;
2. consent to the processing, analyzing and assessment of your personal data by Amazon, salesforce.com or any other third party for the purposes of your application and for any other legitimate purposes of Amazon. For the avoidance of doubt, the âoeprocessingâ of your personal data will include but not restricted to collecting, receiving, recording, organizing, collating, storing, updating, altering, using, disseminating, distributing, merging, linking, blocking, degrading, erasing or destroying of your personal data; and
3. consent to Amazon retaining your personal data after the application process, in order to assist it with the effective monitoring of its job application processes and to your personal data being stored in an electronic database in the USA."
...omphaloskepsis often...
Hmmmm . . . OK, so it's NOT the premium job everybody dreams of - it STILL pays a (sub) standard wage, and it DOES provide some extra income - and it CAN supplement a retirement income for someone that is bored stiff.
Get a grip - even slave-wagers can provide extra help for the terminally unemployable retired community.
I am NOT advocating this type of employment as a general standard of living, but it DOES provide some of us (disabled, retired, bored, looking for some extra income) with a bit of extra help and a bit of challenge in our lifestyle.
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The location was in San Bernadino California. The climate sucked. They had to work long hours with uncertain shifts, so planning life was impossible. The pay was so low that if you didn't live in the area you could not afford a motel. Renting a room was not an option because the work was irregular. People ended up trying to sleep in their cars, but the cops would drive around and roust anyone sleeping in a car. Car thievery was common when people were at work.
Shift hours were strict, and checking in and out took a lot of time that was not paid for. A shift could have an extra two or three hours added time because of this. If you didn't show up early enough you wouldn't get clocked in on time and you could get fired. If you fell ill on the job or hurt yourself with the physical labor you had to cover it up or get fired.
This was in the US within the last 18 months or so. Obama was in office. Guess how it will become once Trump gets his plan in place?
Amazon adding 15,000 part time crap jobs means nothing. Amazon already directly employs over 340,000 people (world wide). They could hire this many people as a PR move and it would make no difference.
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