Amazon's company culture under fire
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- The online giant is the world's biggest retailer with a market value that is nearly $250 billion. The New York Times is raising questions about Amazon's work culture, as reporters Jodi Kantor and David Streitfeld spoke with more than 100 current and former employees. Kantor and former White House press secretary and current Amazon Senior Vice President for Corporate Affairs Jay Carney joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss the report.
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I worked at Amazon and i can safely say I never met anyone who enjoyed working at Amazon.Amazon is a soulless,dystopian workplace where no fun is had.Any laughter you hear is not from workers enjoying what they do.All you are is a tool and your treated as if you can easily be replaced.The CEO would claim this is a lie.How does he know?Has he ever for weeks,months,or years done all the jobs that Amazon has?Does he spend all his time observing his workers in every warehouse?
+Laramie French I lasted 4 mo, thru a peak period. Oh the horrors...and I'm an old fashioned pull up your bootstraps hard worker... never experienced anything like this
It is about the bottom line can’t give a crap about employees low paying job. I hope everyone can see the corporate greed here.
Agreed!
He knows because he made the rules, he doesnt care
Laramie French HIGH TURNOVER
I loved working for Amazon because of its people..... but the management and pressure makes me sob in a corner every other day. Im getting a new job soon and Im never looking back.
i worked for amazon for 4mnths and i have to say that it is a brutal place to work, not every station has a fan or radio, things falling from shelves, mixing chemicals with kids and adult products, robots crashing into one another Kiva workers with straight up attitudes, bosses always stressed and leaning over stuff when giving a talk, managers that are inconsitant, the second level is super dark and way hotter, the company uses your incase of emergency contacts only, to get a hold of you, they tell you that you need to bring in a doctor note if you need to be on light duty but then turns around and refuses to accept it when you do, which is against the law, just a horrible place to work
elizabeth strate What is a Kiva worker?
f you don't like your job at Amazon, you're free to leave and find other employment.
stop bitching.
@@charlietu shut up troll
@@charlietu And We are also Free to Boycott Amazon, Which I Do 100%
yes very trueb
My wife worked for Amazon. She is very intelligent, totally loyal and dedicated, lots of work experience, terrific personality. She completely lost it, freaked out and turned into one nervous Nellie. After a short time, she turned into someone I could not recognize. I made her quit before she became suicidal.
You did the right thing by asking your wife to quit- My nephew was a gentle soul until he started working at Amazon...he has a family to support, can’t leave the position right now. But everyone hates him his wife, kids, neighbors, everyone he comes into contact with. they think he is hostile, angry or toxic… based on his personality .. I fear he may go postal ... I have seen his persona completely changed since he started working at Amazon ...I think Amazon may have done something to damage him or his psyche...Bezos must be stopped ...he has done more damage to his own workers including the increase opiod use in our country.
@@Gluluman As a level-headed former Amazonian, i WHOLEHEARTEDLY concur!
What planet are you on? This isn't the 60s kiddo! these ppl have no choice which is why employers can get away with these conditions. if 1000 ppl quit today there wouod be 1000 new applicants showing up tomorrow. these folks arent working for Porsches but to buy bread and milk.If they lose a job today they are on the street very soon. What do you think a dismissal from Amazon will do for their chances to get another much less a better job?
GC Durnin Excuse me, employers CANNOT get away with working conditions that affect an employee overall health. I heard a woman broke her back because a safety precaution was not in place. That right there is a OSHA violation, employees passing out , no adequate air conditioning etc. There is nothing wrong working hard for a pay check. BUT, it is the company responsibility to put into place requirements to prevent employees suffering for failing to ensure safety precautions. Jeff Bezos does not see the day to day operations of what these employees go through. You cannot work people like slaves.
OMG!!! So THIS is Throughout the Company?!
most bosses are so full of garbage when it comes to the workplace. Always playing so clueless when it comes to what's going on.
mpenny226 It sounds typical of more and more places to work.
It is the typical psychopathic response on their part. They play the victim role, if needed. That is what Jeff Bezos did when he released that apologetic letter.
They are making huge money and the people running things are going to lie because they get paid to make amazon look good.
I worked for AMAZON for a total of 5 weeks, I could not wait to get in and start, after 4 weeks I could not wait to get out. There was a total of about 24 people in my group that were hired. when I quit after 5 weeks there was only 4 people still working there that were in my group. Yes 20 out of 24 people quit after 5 weeks. AMAZON SUCKS.
As I am writing this I have tears in my eyes. I beg you to please understand there are no exaggerations in employee complaints. Warehouse workers have unbelievable rates, you bathroom time is monitored and limited. I worked in HR we were so disrespected, pushed beyond belief. We come in at 4pm and work until 5am. After 10 hrs it's off the clock. We don't eat lunch. You come in daily with 400 emails. After rules and filters you have 125 emails you actually have to read. Not including any work. You have 2000 employees at the facility, everything is reports and data. Reports more reports more metrics....that no one reads. I just cant explain. You go to the bathroom and cry for 10 mins then come back and continue. Once a week. At your 1 on 1 meeting they tell you are the most incompetent employee.
Jessica bathroom breaks wouldn't be a big deal if you were well ahead of your production. If you're working behind or just making it, you don't have time for a bathroom break...better go before you leave the house. You think you can go to work and get paid for not doing work? I work at ups and I know how these places work and it's like y'all want to cry about how you want full benefits, paid lunch break, and 401ks but you don't want to meet production. I know there's a handful of "hammers" where you work, the ones that are always on top of production and management adores them. They don't have anything that you don't have besides work ethic.
@@alanlee67 hey, man. I think bladders have their own schedules. How you gonna pee and sh** when you don't need to?
@@alanlee67 What happens is not everyone is contempt with slavery like you are. I wouldn't even treat my dog like that.
Your comment concerning the shifts and how after 10 hours you are off the clock... I'm hoping I just read that wrong because it's illegal to let employees work off the clock, much less expecting them to do so.
The more I learn about their employee practices, the more I hope for their demise.
Winter Willows Off the clock could also mean they can be salaried employees where overtime is only calculated based off of a hourly wage. If that the company could be in trouble with the IRS, the state Department of Revenue, the labor board.
I made my wife quit Amazon. She came home hurt everyday. She was routinely top performer but was under pressure every day to go faster. Faster faster faster. And so much stress. They begged her not to quit but she couldn't take it anymore.
Bert Osterberg what position was it? I got picking /: so im kinda scared tbh
You did well.
Performance is never good enough. Fail to meet goal you get written up. 3 times getting written up you get fired.
Hey bert, i am writing a report on Amazons work culture. Would you be interested in helping me out. Please do let me know
Yeah I don't think they were talking about people working in fulfilment centers lol.
That guy from Amazon didn't answer a single direct question, only evaded and obfuscated.
Being a former Amazonian (what Amazon calls their employees internally) myself, I can say that Amazon is as every bit as harsh as you hear it is. I was an inbound associate, the overwhelming stress, extremely unbearable high standards, and fake friendliness of the managers made it horrible working there. Amazon was my second watehousing job, but after working for them and leaving, I will never work for one again.
I guess it depends which Amazon warehouse you work in. I work in one of their warehouses in NJ and its great working there. Its nothing like what you describe.
Please tell me more
TRUTH!
What were the standards you were or are held to? I work I in a similar environment and my employees complain that the standards are too high. But, they don’t know that I worked my way up from the position that they are currently in. It is very doable. I’m twice the age of most of them and can work circles around them. Companies can not continue to lower standards and expect to be profitable.
@@TheReagorBrothers it is NOT about "lowering standards" sir, rather RAISING the consideration and dignity awareness of the soul-selling oligarchs such as Jeff Bezos!
Jay Carney works at Amazon now? Sends a cold chill down my spine. Hard to tell corporate America apart from the US govt.
Obama and Bezos are Best friends
It’s all about the big man making money off the backs of the little man
I've noticed over the years after the economy basically went under that companies started treating their employees with a lot less respect because they knew job loss was high and their employees didn't have a lot of options when it came to the job market so companies started getting tighter with payroll and started asking more from less people, even if a company is doing as well as Amazon they still didn't want to give more for more work done with less people. Sad how businesses see their employees as nothing more then another time card taking money from a company that has more then they can spend on them self's. The company I work for tells us once a month how well the company is doing and how it's thanks to us and yet our paychecks don't seem to reflect our efforts. Cost of living will always go up, that's just how the market works but companies need to pay to match cost of living and their not...
EagleTalons1 I agree with you
well they've been getting away with this forever and it's not liiely to change. Work is, after all, a four letter word!
This isn’t anything new. 😂
Amazon is honestly an awful place to work I guarantee you the CEO himself wouldn't last a month. You get micromanaged, people constantly quit, you're on your feet 13 hour's a day straight with two or three breaks, You get written up for just about anything, there are videos out there on RUclips showing just how awful it was to work there. People work at Amazon not because they like it but because of money. They pay weekly especially during peek time. Such as holidays when they need more people and that's about the only decent thing
Bull crap. I worked in receiving inbound and the quota system is brutal. You are working on your feet for 10 or more hours and doing the must labor intensive and dangerous work in the warehouse and are expected to receive, scan and redo incoming pallets of merchandise at 7 pallets an hour which comes to 70 pallets a day. It is a very hard quota to achieve, as there are always problems with incoming pallets and the restacking of pallets takes time and you are written up or transferred to another department or let go if these quotas are not met. God help you if you are seen standing still for more than a minute as you will be yelled at and cautioned. Pickers must work under pressure walking 12 to 15 miles a day again meeting a quota. The conditions yes are very mentally stressing and physically demanding and are jobs for younger employees and not for the faint of heart or older people wanting to get back into the work force.
+timetreker I'm a former Amazon employee also...it's all 100% true. Unfortunately, at the end of the day, as long as people can save a few cents, they're going to buy from Amazon even if they treat their employees as slaves. (Notice they didn't mention or acknowledge the offshore call centers? There's 1 in Costa Rica. WORSE conditions than anything in this report.)
That is dehumanizing, and I don't care what kind of gloss Amazon tries to put on it. They have had a bad rep from the beginning of all of this mass distribution they do, and it seems it's only become worse. The only people who might like working there are people in management.
I am so Happy the company got on fire
if you don't like your job at Amazon, you're free to leave and find other employment.
stop bitching.
timetreker that is terrible. And their pay is not worth all that. Pay me $25 an hour and I’ll get you 70 pallets 🖕🏼😁
only if ppl really knew how brutal and hostile and the stuff they sweep under the carpet...
Eugene Johnson this is so very true, like ambulances being called to sit in a parking lot to wait for employees as they drop from heat exhaustion because it is cheaper that fixing the AC. true story.
Disney does the same thing.
That was the Ohio warehouse wasn't it? I read about that, and was horrified. It was, literally, a sweatshop, and their only response was to try and limit the likelihood that they would be on the hook for a big settlement is someone actually died. Nice. And Bezos thinks people are laughing and enjoying "the fast-paced, productive atmosphere".
"Amazon is a place where people are excited to come to work" hahahahahaha
It will only get worse cause people need jobs and as long as people will work for low wages they won’t change.
Does a former White House Press Secretary have any credibility what so ever?
No Jay is a piece of crap. He is on par with Alan Green Span as being a master of confusion and changing the subject. Is was hired for this reason
Cristobal No.
Very Unbearable place to work
I regret the fact that I was stupid to let go of a union job to work for these idiots @ Amazon only to get fired 9 months later.
You were probably on your phone when you should have been working.
if you don't like your job at Amazon, you're free to leave and find other employment.
stop bitching.
Is it not possible this person already left is only reflecting on their past experience?
@ John you want an easy life get a gov job.
I've heard they are the single worst company to work 4
Lot's of former Amazon employees are saying it was horrible place to work there
Not true, James Chung. Current employees post videos about the many CONS of working at Amazon.
I use to work @ Amazon SDF8. I STARTED FULL TIME AS AN AMAZON EMPLOYEE! I worked there for 2 years and then they started sending people home early A LOT!!! Day after day! Then they offered a buyout of like $2,500. So I took it and EVEN ASKED THE HR LADY IF I COULD COME EVER COME BACK? She said not for at least 1 YEAR!!!!!! After over 1 year, I tried to come back and they told me no since I took the buyout!!!!! So they are either liars, or they have HR EMPLOYEES THAT ARE LIARS THAT DON'T KNOW THEIR JOB!!!
Funny that the former whitehouse press secretary is now a CEO of Amazon. I hear horror stories all the time about how they treat people at amazon. They opened up a new plant in my area not too long ago and had people passing out due to heat exhaustion because they didnt have any cooling system in the place. I contemplating canceling my prime membership and stop doing business with them.
We didn't have any cooling system at the Amazon warehouse in NJ but three months after I started working there they got it installed.
AJ R Which warehouse did you work at?
DEW2 but the cooling system was temporary. We had one of those vans that has big tubes to bring in cold air but we had air condition in the break room from the very beginning.
AJ R Now that's interesting. Are you still employed there?
Jay Carney evaded answering the questions posed. Completely useless.
+MrMusiclover41 thats a no good lying liberal for you....pos
+Sparky7771000 You don't even KNOW what a liberal is. Jay Carney is MANAGEMENT. Management is hardly liberal!
+MrMusiclover41 Jay Carney though, much like Hillary Clinton, are the reasons why Bernie Sanders has garnered as much traction as he has over the last year or so. Corporatist Democrats who tell liberals what they want to hear, while cow-towing to big business and pissing on the labor force along with their Republican "rivals."
Watch clips from Alan Green Span if you want to see some master level question evasion. This guy is the reason we have 4 eye'd jokes.
useless - much like Trump
Those amazon warehouses were a hellhouse, everyone looked like zombies.
So absolutely true! LOL
ImmortalDraylo And Robots
It's funny when you said "Amazon warehous were hellhouse and everyone looked like zombies " . Hahaha !
good, they are the worst employer to work for bar none. I'll go assemble iPhones before working with Amazon ever again.
Yeah go work for the company that has never donated money to charity.
I work at Amazon during the peak season they are good towards the employees but right after the volume substantially goes down management will scrutinize you and labor track you like crazy and you will get flustered quickly
Drewski Levi That is when you just walk out the door and quit.
Why invite an EXECUTIVE to comment on this?! Stupid media. Invite the workers! What answer would you expect from the suits? Or maybe this is part of the propaganda game.
haha asking some white collar CEO or marketing guy how the working condition are.. lol... now what wil he say.. yeah you are right we exploit our workers... 🙈
this interview was so naive 🙄
*This goes all the way down to the logistical distribution centers. I used to work at one and saw it for myself. if I had known what I know now before working for them, I wouldn't have work for them. This guy is a liar. His job is to know what is going on with the operations. THEY DON'T CARE. THEY JUST WANT TO EXPLOIT THERE WORKERS AND GET THE CREDIT FOR IT.*
amazon is awful
like capitalism, on the white collar side, everything is all smiles (im sure working in the nice airconditioned offices, ample lunch breaks and other perks) but if you work on the blue collar/logistics/warehouse side it is a nigtmare.they promise proformance bonuses but when its time to pay up, they get rid of you or or always raise the stakes.
i worked at REI warehouse in sumner wa, and the one holiday season i worked there we had this OVERWELMING influx of ex-amazon workers who told us nothing but horror stories involving being overworked, horrorible working conditions, asshole shift managers, little to no job security, low pay and no benefits . unfortunately REI is not that much better where getting hired on full time is like winning the lottery.REI and amazon put out this "liberal" front but trust me, both of them pay way lower than the 15.00 hr that now fast food workers make (not that that is a bad thing)
its wage slavery with a "starbucks" attitude
big "C" capitalism.
take it in.
+Christopher Davis Also worked at Amazon....absolute nightmare. Everything in this report is 100% TRUE.
At least Starbucks offers stock options to ALL of its employees. Amazon employees don't even get a discount on purchases or even discounted (not free) shipping.
+1ring2rule3pigs and donald trump wants to lower taxes and large corporations like amazon and apple and also wants to lower the minimum wagjesus christ
Christopher Davis That is not capitalism or free-market what amazon is practising that's corporatism.
My friend was asked to do something he was not trained to do. He told the supervisor he couldn’t do it, and he was fired for not following orders. Amazon Fulfillment’s should be compared to a confined prison. Always monitored, never allowed to carry a phone or snack. Working more than $12 an hour is worth.
They don't comply with Doctors restrictions. Not immediately. Not totally.
A Doctors note has to go through a "review process". Both your mental & physical health are IRRELEVANT. physica
Worked for the Post Office for years and there company culture sucks nobody complaining about that and they should
Anthony Koss USPS is a private company.
Post office is not government job, if u don't believe me google it.
I worked for the post office for 30 years as a delivery post person had to relocate to another part of the country because of mitigating factors put in for a transfer to a nearby delivery office heard nothing then received a letter informing me my contract had been terminated I was basically sacked for moving house all these companies are just run by snakes and psychopaths and that's an insult to a snake
The po culture could be better, but you do get great benefits, sick days, vacation days, a decent wage, union protection, everything a government employee gets the po gets. Hands down I would say, better than Amazon. Also, up to a 5% match in an ira
Has this guy heard of Google? Headquarters is like a giant play pen and they're one of the most powerful corporations in America.
Jacob Hoverman Google is a high technology company and Amazon is a warehouse.
Data will be the death of us...
Jay sure is doing his job well in this interview. Top lvl employes are, well having a good time and can choose other places to work. But at the bottom, there is no choice.
What tech company??? Its a retailer. We're talking about the warehouse workers here. Not the techs making 6 figures.
The comments here say it all. OF COURSE the CEO is going to come on and say it's "wonderful" "fun" "compassionate" place to work!! Reading these comments, from real people is certainly the unfortunate reality. Guess when Amazon grows here in Atlanta, I WON'T even think of applying there!
This whole video is a puff piece for Amazon. What do you expect from a corporate news media.
Second part of the video is not worth watching if you cannot bear a corporation responding to inconvenient facts with 'their take'.
Are people really that desperate to work for them?
TheGodParticle yes the bills are not gonna go away you have to pay them or else get evicted get your car repo get your 📱 turnoff credit cards won’t have mercy if you are late .. etc a person has to eat feed their families life is hard if you don’t keep up with your responsibilities most people are slaves to a piece of paper .. billionaires exploit people
Desperate for work? Sure, some are, especially those with families to support. Desperate to work at Amazon? Not necessarily. In some places, particularly in smaller, rural areas, Amazon may be the about the only game in town. As Wal-Mart grew, many small mom & pop stores went out of business as they couldn't compete with Wal-Mart's selection and prices. That killed jobs, and places like Amazon and Wal-Mart took over.
TheGodParticle They lie to the applicants. No quotas are mentioned. Told new hires at orientation the bathroom stories are untrue. It’s bait and switch and now in three weeks they’re ready to fire you for everything. The pick and pack jobs need to be fully robotized because workers are failing fast at these. A way to move workers through the floors like they do at airports and having restrooms that aren’t a mile away isn’t a luxury. Escalators instead of stairs.
Amazons are deliberately set up to cause workers to leave. My manager had been there one month. The longest time I met was eight months. Someone wants this turnover.
The setup of Amazon is brutal and intentional. Workers from all over the country say the same thing. But Amazon will not beat me. I have a financial goal and there is a way to work the Amazon system which I am not telling. Lol.
I heard some of employees would urinate in bottles because the restroom is too far away,and the cantina is 10 minutes away,so you get a 5 minute lunchbreak
YOU KNOW THIS GUY IS NOT LYING, THE ADMIN PEOPLE GET A HELLUVA LOT BETTER TREATMENT THAN THAN WAREHOUSE WORKERS.
This guy really knows how to shovel it.
Dude at around 5:50 has been working there for 5 months.
>Senior
>Less than a year
Pick one
The surreal McCoy That guy was an executive not some warehouse employee. He probably has benefits.
I worked for them in 2005; left due to illness. I had my surgery in 2006; I will not return to Amazon
Let’s talk about that Baltimore warehouse collapse.
If they can break up ATT&T. They can break Amazon up.
Amazon is nothing but a corporate plantation. I tried to get hired there and got turned down. Thank God. I thought UPS was a plantation . Amazon is even worse
Jay, I truly enjoyed listening to you tap dance like a typical corporate mutant.. I know you'll say anything right now in this interview to keep your ultra high paying job.
CBS, put us on National television with Jeff Bezos so we can expose all the bullshit, lying, and especially the hypocricy we experienced on several occasions as former Pro Sellers for them. How about it Jeff? Up for the challenge?
Boycott Amazon, don't buy and don't work for them. We vote against these bad employment practices with our taking the money away.
Amazon should go UNION!!!
Of course the turn over is no more than in other tech companies. Because all tech companies in the USA have the same low standards regarding employee treatment. See Synopsys, or Apple, for example.
I like working at Amazon, but the only place I've worked aside from there is fast food lol - McDonald's was twice as hard for half the pay. :(
So NOT TRUE! I worked in a parking garage & got paid more than minimum wage to basically do absolutely nothing. I just got tired of the long commute in addition to thectraffic.
Sorry.
.......the traffic.
Do they have exit reviews? They can see how many left about their culture.
He’s deflecting and misdirecting, he never actually refuted any of the things she said like people crying at their desks and being put on performance review after a miscarriage.
My lifetime purchases in Amazon total $30, and I intend to keep it such
Of course Jeff bezos doesn’t recognize this amazon. He’s not working the ground floor everyday. And, I don’t think software designers and engineers are subjected to the same rigors as the average warehouse employees
the SVP may be right. Amazon can't be a USD 250Bn Market Cap with USD 90bn is annual sales by being this cruel in its culture. .
+Rahul Mehra Of course they can be...There's no correlation between a company's market value and its internal culture. I was a former Amazon employee. Everything in that report is 100% true. I saw/experienced it first hand.
+Rahul Mehra sure they can, they use temp agency's and now camperforces during peak times and dont give a hoot about the hard worker's that make it happen because the temp agencys always have a constant supply of people who want a temporary job. Once they arent needed its see ya till i need you again. Alot of the fulltime associates are stuck up and act like emotionless pricks and i have yet to understand why......
Yes they can!
It is not fair to defend Amazon by saying that it is no less unfair than other companies. It is also unfair to use circumstances of high tech high dollar employees to undermine the complaints of the employees at the bottom, the employees that are doing the grunt work and thus doing the jobs that cause injuries.
Everything is true, yes they monitor your bathroom breaks, yes you only get two 8 minute breaks and 30 mins for lunch, yes big brother is watching you at amazon all the time, make no mistake about it. I worked at amazon for 1 year and Jeff Bozo doesn't give a damn about amazon employees at all, ever.
"80% of companies don't have this policy, either..." I guess that makes it okay. How much time does he spend in the "fulfillment centers?" Carney sounds like a former White House press secretary. He's a shill for his employer.
excited to come to work!! lolls
Don't work for them don't buy form them
Never had a problem really.... You don't start lunch until you hit the time clock usually at the front entrance or near the lunch door. The managers let us take as many breaks as you want as long as you reach your goal. Usually takes 2 hours for people at my warehouse
If any employee of Amazon is happy & looks forward to their shifts at Amazon, it can only be because they've been given the tools to succeed or they've been employed there long enough to know the ins & outs, to know the shortcuts to succeed. Perhaps its both. If you're going to claim you're a team, then act like a team. I've heard that Jeff Bezos doesn't have a clue as to what goes on in his facilities. That Jeff Bezos doesn't even run the company. He's got other people running the show, he just enjoys all the piles of money overflowing his bank account(s). He doesn't care as long as those piles keep coming in.
That's a shame!!- Amazon is being exposed now the truth is out how bad it is to work there! From many ex employees!! And they were saying the same thing it's horrible!! And the boss just denies it! That's not right at all!
It sounds like everyone is replaceable.
Hmmmm... there is a very different way supervisors, middle management and tech employees are treated and regarded compared to low wage warehouse and customer service employees. But when you desperately need a job, you'll endure a lot.
Costco is a very attractive place to work for Amazon not so much. It seems to me it is more like the workshops at the beginning of the industrial revolution with quite a few similar abuses!
I work there and it is a labor job
It's under fire and not the amazon fire stick
Ever tried being a 3rd party seller on Amazon? A NIGHTMARE! One customer kept my product, while another claimed damage, opened a case with Amazon and won with little effort, got a full refund and then shipped the item back to me at some astronomical rate, resulting in Amazon dipping into my bank account for money to cover it. There is no seller protection. I believe the customers know this by now and exploit the sellers. Its a war between both parties. I don't want any parts of it. Oh and Ebay is even worse now. They used to be the best online auction site with buyer and seller feedback as monitors for successful exchanges. Now they are following practices like Amazon.... dinging the seller at every turn. One lady tried to return shoes to me because they didn't fit. I had the item listed as brand new with "no return" in the description... yet she acted like I was supposed to take them back. I'm not a brick and mortar corp like Macy's. Never again!
Minimum wage, minimum labor. It takes a village to do something, but only a fool to destroy anything. Good luck!
Of all the places to work, I don't know why people still complain and still work at Amazon it just don't make sense to me.
Easy work at my fulfillment center. I’m a picker drive the pit all day easy money for college student. 15-20$ an hr.
Note every amazon center is different. The one I’m at carries mostly big boxes. Other facilities carry small (hazmat items) those I hear it a more physically demanding job walking x amount of miles and lifting x amount of items.
No complaints from me. I just feel corporate will never understand what warehouse workers feel until they them selfs go through the work them self.
I will dig ditches before I cry at my desk over a job. But big companies don’t have to care because there are so many people needing scarce jobs.
I just withdrawed my job application in Australia after reading all the comments even Adecco in Australia who is there recruitment agency has bad customer service
You don't need paid paternity leave. If you can't afford to be away from work keep your damn legs closed
Now they are starting in on the grocery delivery business, what are Postmates, Favor, GrubHub, Uber Eats, etc., going to do?
I also am working at amazon and am leaving. It is the worst, nastiest company I’ve ever seen. They are incredibly harsh, target people who stand up for the customer, and YOU CANNOT criticize a supervisor or they take you out. They utilize your own customer records on your family and purchase history to threaten you. They basically shake you up intentionally and write you up for mistakes. This place is GODLESS.
I agree with this vice president the people should quit if they don't like it there, because the company will just get worse not better, it will never be an employee friendly company to work for.
Haha, put a nice spin on it Jay.
Anything Jay Carney says, the opposite is true!
Don’t work for anyone who doesn’t respect you and value the job you do. Look for different work or work for yourself. It is likely caused by greed, profits before the people. It’s unfair that anyone treated this way.
We need a national warehouse workers union....funny right? But not Improbable.
Amazon it's not a new future it's a throwback to the old Ford Motor Company's policies that brought on the 1930s labor Acts and then in the same time results will happen here
I refuse to buy or order anything from Amazon via my computer. My granddaughter had since enough to turn down a part time job from them after seeing how horrible they treated the employees that worked there. The wages are even worse!!!!!!! And to think that Amazon does not pay ANY TAX.!!!!! DEPLORABLE.......
I have read a lot of comments here and not one of them have mentioned anything about the bulk of the workers who are Warehouse Associates doing the work, why they don't get together and form a Union. Power in numbers!!
Because they will fire you before you can unionize
The term "company culture" is just ridiculous overall, not just when talking about Amazon. What culture? Where is the art that Amazon created? Where is the literature? Where are the musical pieces? Disgusting.
Jay Carney doesn't seem to care about the poor working environment at Amazon. It looks like it's all about the dollar signs and workers can be easily replaced by the next batch coming in. It's awful to see this type of corporate culture.
ivory towers
Barnes and Noble aren't too good to pay income tax.
So, if everybody does it, does that make it right? Carney should work the floor. He's never had a labor job in his life, more than likely.
Amazon marketing team must have paid a lot of money for this segment
Do not buy from amazon😳
Ps your corporate stored aws info is NOT safe
VP just said if you don't like it here, leave.
Jay is lying i worked for Amazon
Well paid yet they quit because its not worth the stress
The USA Government needs to look at maturity leave! Were one of the only major nations in the world that doesn't have it!