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Amazon Warehouse Envoys Rally To Tweet Upbeat Comments About Working Conditions (seattletimes.com)
Amazon has been criticized for years by activists and labor unions for working conditions in its warehouses. So it caught the eye of a Seattle Times journalist when he saw several people, all of which created account recently, tweet positive things about their work experience at Amazon's warehouse. The report says: A group of more than a dozen Amazon Twitter users in the last two weeks started responding to critics of the company on the social media site, sharing upbeat tales of their working conditions and pay at Amazon's distribution network. Identified by first names and "Amazon FC Ambassador," they each opened a Twitter account this month, are unfailingly polite, and pepper emojis into conversations about the generosity of their benefits packages and job satisfaction at Amazon's fulfillment centers, the company's term for its sprawling warehouses.
[...] Amazon's Twitter legion, though small, appears to represent a new front in the company's effort to portray itself as a generous employer. The company has been criticized for years by activists and labor unions for working conditions in its warehouses, with media reports finding the company failed to provide air conditioning at some facilities during the summer, and set work quotas that could exceed employees' ability to keep up.
[...] Amazon's Twitter legion, though small, appears to represent a new front in the company's effort to portray itself as a generous employer. The company has been criticized for years by activists and labor unions for working conditions in its warehouses, with media reports finding the company failed to provide air conditioning at some facilities during the summer, and set work quotas that could exceed employees' ability to keep up.
A new low for Amazon.
If so, then rather than universally complaining about how demanding and shitty the jobs are, people who have worked there would probably just keep relatively quiet about their cushy jobs, like the workers at "defense" contractors.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Oh bullshit. If there were better jobs available to these workers you think they'd be there? People who are scraping by don't have the luxury of easy job mobility, so stop with the "they like it if they work there" crap.
Companies are forcing shitty work conditions on people and paying the less and less. This is a problem that DOES affect all of society, ESPECIALLY when there are thousands of these Amazon workers who are being paid so shittily that they're on food stamps:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/thousands-of-amazon-workers-receive-food-stamps-and-bernie-sanders-wants-amazon-to-pay-up/ar-BBMnmJC
So you know what? That DOES make it everyone's business because public tax dollars are going to subsidize corporate profits. Or another way to state it: Corporate Welfare. For one of the richest companies on the face of the Earth.