From 2013, Gawker collects stories from Amazon workers. Positive, negative and mixed stories, but includes: "... below zero temps INSIDE the warehouse" "My feet hurt so bad, I would have trouble going to sleep, I was in so much pain."
This article has links to the above and many others that I can't sum up right now due to time constraints.
I see no reason to assume that Amazon has improved since then. But like I said, I'm happy to order things from small business that sell through Amazon as third parties. They need the business, and presumably aren't running giant sweatshops. (My dropshipping eBay seller, though, isn't providing a service worth paying for. I could have ordered the thing from Amazon directly and paid less. I don't consider wasting money on a parasitic businessman to be virtuous.)
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Date: 2017-06-26 05:42 am (UTC)This article has links to the above and many others that I can't sum up right now due to time constraints.
Here's a 2014 article about The supreme court backing up Amazon (and their warehouse subcontractor) on not paying employees for the mandatory screenings that waste a half-hour of each of their days.
From 2015: A NYTimes article basically describing Amazon engineering as a white-collar sweatshop, with simultaneous contrasting (extreme) views on the merits of these conditions. (The money quote is, "Nearly every person I worked with, I saw cry at their desk." But a lot of the interviewees also appreciated being driven hard.)
I see no reason to assume that Amazon has improved since then. But like I said, I'm happy to order things from small business that sell through Amazon as third parties. They need the business, and presumably aren't running giant sweatshops. (My dropshipping eBay seller, though, isn't providing a service worth paying for. I could have ordered the thing from Amazon directly and paid less. I don't consider wasting money on a parasitic businessman to be virtuous.)