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Lol I hope they do it close to a facility I used to work at. Amazon fucking sucks, they give you a nigh impossible box packing rate to do. Get this: 250 singular packed boxes in one hour. I barely made it above 120 an hour. It's Soo unrealisticly high it just burns you out. I asked to be transferred back to the ship dock, but I got turned away. They told me if I can't make it to 250 an hour for a while month then I can go back to the ship dock. I saw what they were doing. They put me in a high demand area to get me burnt out and leave. Idk why tho, maybe they were bringing in more temp workers. Considering they were making the temps work at the inbound side. I wouldn't be surprised if they got the temps to do every job. Oh man..
one box every 15 seconds for hours at a time.... why don't they use robots?
Because they can’t currently make the robots feel like they’re a piece of shit and not worthy of respect.
The robots at my facility moved shelves of product around a caged grid system for quick inventory and holdover until it gets packed by a person manning a station at the grid. It flashes a projector light on which slot to grab from, you scan it, and the robot drives away with the shelf. There's a robot arm too, but it's job is to just stack plastic totes in a 3x3 stack on a pallet, then a conveyor pushes the full ones to the side
I'm way too fucking tired to search for a source, but there was some news a while back that Amazon was concerned that they would literally turnover to the point where everyone who was willing to work for them would and their practices would turn them over and they'd run out of workers.
So yeah, vile company.
I wish the strike was larger and that it had sympathy strikers like it does in Sweden where even harbourbdockwrs and the post office joins in on the strikes against Tesla
Good for them! Burn it to the ground!!
Good for them. I'm also not shopping on black Friday! Give people a break!
Go Amazon worker!
Good!
Black Friday in store traffic has been dropping for years in the States. Mostly because of extended online sales weeks before Black Friday, and consumers getting wise to the fact stores raise prices in the preceding weeks so they can mark prices down around Black Friday. Not sure what it’s like in the UK now, but I hope it’s also in decline. Oddly enough, the only people I personally know here in the US going shopping today are my family that are UK citizens.
Amazon's response to his sign: "we know, that is why we are working so hard to replace you with one."
Your comment sounds so negative. But aren't we all heading for automation in every corner of our lives.
It is wholly negative, and I develop automation and AI stuff for a living. The issue is that as automation accelerates, population growth will still be exponential as it has always been. That means fewer and fewer workers needed while the population continues to explode. Without obscenely massive reforms to society and law, we are careening towards a social and economic collapse the likes of which we have contemplated. Stop for a second and think what just Amazon fully automatic packing centers would mean. A few million people are working in those facilities. What happens when they are all fired because Amazon automates their jobs? There are moved to automate fast food production as well. Burger flipping robots already exist. Cashiers are being replaced with apps and kiosks in every McDonald's. Those jobs make up the bottom rung in the economic chain.
In the US, 60% of the population already lives below the realistic poverty line (not the legal one, because that one is a joke). What happen a when you unemployed > 2% of the entire population in less than a year? That isn't the working-age adult population, that is all of us. At the same time, cut social safety nets, remove consumer protections, and deregulate rent.
I am not trying to be a doomsayer, I am just realistically looking at the whole of the trajectories of our society. Unfortunately, those trajectories carry us over a rather dystopian cliff. Tell me you honestly believe that a realistic and functional UBI will ever happen, even when there are 5 employees to every job, so 80% of us are finctionally incapable of obtaining gainful employment?
It sounded as if you were against automation only at Amazon. But now you cleared things up.
In an ideal society the burger flippers could get the education to be Burgerflipperrobot engineers and so on, while everybody has to work less. But we already see that only a few profit from that progress.
Fabricated american bullshit