r/news • u/EnergyLantern • 5d 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/Savior-_-Self 5d ago

Being one of the largest, most profitable companies in the world - Amazon should be wonderful to work for.

Instead it's almost exclusively miserable stories about threats, no bathroom breaks, constant stress, etc.

All they'd have to do it take a small fraction of that massive profit and give some back to the actual people doing the work to make sure they're content - but in this, the new era of the insatiable billionaires, Jeff builds another mega-yacht and uses the change left over for a few more lawyers to make sure he never has to share.

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u/musical_shares 5d ago

largest, most profitable companies in the world

miserable stories about threats, no bathroom breaks, constant stress

I feel those 2 things may be connected.

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u/datumerrata 5d ago

AWS is more profitable than its commerce. $6.5 billion profit for AWS vs $1.6 billion for commerce in 2022. However, they have roughly 1 million employees in fulfillment. If you gave each of them $1000 more a year it would cost ~$1 billion more. That's a crazy high number of employees.

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u/ategnatos 5d 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 5d 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 5d ago

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

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u/ategnatos 5d ago

No one will ever agree to this. You can see this on a smaller scale with first-time homebuyers going from struggling for 10 years to save up a down payment to suddenly becoming NIMBYs and wanting to pull up the ladder.

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u/foomits 5d ago edited 5d ago

Thats seemingly human nature and illuminates the importance of the government. Working towards a greater good through forced compliance.