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Yea, it is shitty back breaking work where you are micromanaged a ton. They could either raise the pay or they could stop pushing their workers to be miserable machines so much to make the work more tolerable. I hope they do both.

This is by far the best news I've heard about Amazon warehouses. It's so incredibly awesome that there might be something that Amazon can't lobby against that could force them to be more nice to their employees.

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Preach. I did warehouse work years back in my teens, trundling around with a pallet truck picking orders was moderately enjoyable but it was inherently obvious that if the management had 'raised the temperature' by micromanaging us or demanding more output it would have become horrible.

Another thing that was apparent was that some people were just better order-pickers than me. One part of my post above was kinda wondering how Amazon would do if they kept the demanding work, but paid enough to recruit (and treated well enough to retain) physical outliers, a bunch of warehouse athletes.

I've visited a car factory, a well-run Japanese marque, where it was mentioned that they had very high initial turnover - some people just couldn't take the pace of the production line - but high longer-term retention. In a sense they must be doing something right.

Normally I would consider this hyperbole, but I am actually worried they will try to legislate some sort of indentured servitude in the guise of something else.

I would not put it past them or the lawmakers.

Yow. Amazon prisons, maybe?

Local governments tying up benefits to working at an Amazon warehouse.

I really shouldn't be giving out ideas like these.

Pushing for more immigration?

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