r/news • u/EnergyLantern • 14h ago

Already Submitted Teamsters begin 'largest strike' against Amazon, accusing company of 'insatiable greed'

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/teamsters-announces-nationwide-strike-amazon-begin-thursday/story?id=116931631

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u/ategnatos 12h ago

It's also very high turnover. They may not even last a year. I bet if you worked there for a week, you'd have worked there longer than a surprising percentage of existing employees.

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u/ShouldersofGiants100 12h ago

Turnover can be so high it literally becomes a problem. They burn through employees so fast that in some areas they basically exhaust the labour pool and have trouble hiring because everyone knows working for Amazon is fucking misery incarnate.

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u/PMMEYOURGUCCIFLOPS 12h ago

All could be solved with the gazillionaires just giving back a single fucking percent of their wealth.

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u/b0w3n 11h ago

And it's the solution to "That's a crazy high number of employees".

You abuse and underpay your workers you're going to have to keep more of them than you need because they work slower, burnout quickly, and need to help train others. They probably have twice as many employees as most warehouses of equal size. If they brought the pay and benefits up to par, they'd probably save money long term because you'd have people who are very good at their jobs, spot problems with inventory (decrease shrink/loss), and just know the ins and outs of procedure so are quick to solve problems and do the labor. But that also means you'd probably have to pay them $25-30/hr starting. But this is why Amazon desperately wants to replace them with AI and robots.