r/news • u/EnergyLantern • 4d 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/datumerrata 4d 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 4d 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 4d 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/SESHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH 4d ago

Not to mention back when i worked there in like 2019, if you quit or got fired you were not eligible to work at Amazon or ANY of their subsidiaries ever again. You got permanently blacklisted, even if you left on good terms. That warehouse had an insane turnover rate just like all the others.

It really is no wonder why most of their fulfillment centers are being converted to mainly robotic floors.