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In America! How did we let it come to this?
Posted: Nov 24, 2012
My brief, backbreaking, rage-inducing, low-paying, dildo-
packing time inside the online-shipping machine. A journalist reports what it's like on the job in a warehouse filling on-line orders; 31 years old and she hurts bad after 2 mandatory-overtime days, link to a very interesting and eye-opening article at bottom.
"I'm assigned a schedule of Sunday through Thursday, 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. When additional overtime is necessary, which it will be soon (Christmas!), I should expect to leave at 7 or 7:30 p.m. instead."
"Well, what if I do start crying?" I ask the woman who warns me to keep it together no matter how awfully I'm treated. "Are they really going to fire me for that?" "Yes," she says. "There's 16 other people who want your job. Why would they keep a person who gets emotional, especially in this economy?"
"Anyway, good luck, everybody. Everybody back to work. Quickly!at elevensomething dollars an hour, is a bit of an understatement." "Thank God that I (unlike Brian, probably) [NOTE: Brian was automatically fired for taking a day off (when his baby was born) but allowed to reapply, retake the drug test, rewait for security clearance, etc.] didn't need to pay for opting into Amalgamated's "limited" health insurance program. Because in my 10.5-hour day I'll make about $60 after taxes."
"This is America?" my Skype pal asks, because often I'm abroad.
At lunch, the most common question, aside from "Which offensive dick-shaped product did you handle the most of today?" is "Why are you here?" like in prison. A middle-aged lady near me used to be a bookkeeper. She's a peak-season hire, worked here last year during Christmas, too. "What do you do the rest of the year?" I ask. "Collect unemployment!" she says, and laughs the sad laugh you laugh when you're saying something really unfunny."
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Raise the wages? My husband was a sheet metal (sm) - Texan
[ In Reply To ..]fabricator and used to hire helpers - just helpers - to learn - at 12 dollars an hour. Some were dumb as a box of rocks or whiny and didn't want to work outside, didn't want to work in the heat, didn't want to work in the cold, called in sick at least once a week, etc. etc. The skilled people made mostly $18 an hour. He made $28. I'll vouch for the fact that they are unskilled and don't want to learn. That's the problem.
This post was meant to go under the next post. - Sorry
[ In Reply To ..]nm
The problem is that a job that pays $10 an hour will not - attract skilled workers. nm
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This employer doesn't WANT skilled workers, rather a constant - renewing supply of unskilled to exploit. Why
[ In Reply To ..]else would they be happy to fire at the drop of a hat? This brutal system isn't necessary to make sure workers start work on time.
Here you go, "Texas." Evidence of more lazy workers packing for - Amazon to support your deserve-no-better theory.
[ In Reply To ..]From "Inside Amazon's Warehouse":
"Cetronia provides ambulance service in Upper Macungie Township, where a large number of warehouses are concentrated. Cetronia did not have ambulances stationed outside any other warehouses during summer heat waves, said Chris Peischl, the nonprofit's director of operations. However, he noted that Amazon has a large number of employees compared with other warehouses.
"The majority of people we saw were heat-related," Peischl said. "We saw 20 to 30 people who cooled down, we helped hydrate them and they went back to work."
Another 15 people were transported from the Amazon warehouse to hospitals for further treatment, according to Cetronia, but none was in critical condition."
"Texas," the rest of the article is found at the link below. You should be proud of Amazon's conservative work ethic. Other people's work, at least.
So what? This has nothing to do with "skilled" workers. - What?
[ In Reply To ..]nm
Well, "Texan" provides an answer. Explains all abuses, even why there are no lockers, - 15 minutes running breaks, etc., etc? Shoot,
[ In Reply To ..]since "Texan" by definition as an hourly worker falls into the "don't want to work/don't want to learn" employee category, you have to admire her at least for the truly objective viewpoint offered. She's not condoning any abuses of others that she wouldn't accept serenely for herself.
They are all panty-waists, mama's boys. - here too
[ In Reply To ..]nm
Panty-waists? - pqr
[ In Reply To ..]LOL. I think the last time anyone used that expression was 50 years ago.
I saw it just the other day on another board and - laughed and laughed.
[ In Reply To ..]nm
Is this not the very thing that most here are complaining of?? - anon09
[ In Reply To ..]$10 an hour, if you are lucky, wages, being treated with disrespect, fired for complaining about anything, having 1000 more MTs waiting in the wings to take your jobs? Is this not what we all complain about, as well? How can you, out of one side of your mouth, call these people panty waists and mamas boys, while you are yourself, out of the other side of your mouth, complaining about the very same treatment, anonymously of course, from most of the larger MTSOs out there?? Isn't that a little discompassionate on your part??? wow!
Not everyone on this board is an MT. Quite a few - are not, mostly pubs I think.. nm
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I thought this board was supposed to be for MT's. - Repub MT
[ In Reply To ..]nm
Okay, going to take the bait here - why don't - you think pubs are not MTs
[ In Reply To ..]I'm an MT,and every republican on this board that I know is an MT.
Wow! For a more complete definition - sm
[ In Reply To ..]A boy or man who is considered weak or effeminate.
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Sounds about right. - Me again (sm)
[ In Reply To ..]Mommy, Mommy, I don't want to have to do any hard work, just let me go to college for a few more years, and you pay for it.
If you'd read the article, you'd know many of these factory workers - ARE skilled in other lines of work,
[ In Reply To ..]that the recession took away the jobs they used to have, that high unemployment rates left them competing with 1000 others for every job available, that their determination to hold at least these jobs means they can be abused and exploited at will by evil people.
(Strange how we never run out of evil people. Education, religion, wealthy advanced culture, nothing makes a dent in our supply; far more than the poor, they're always with us.)
So, MeAgain, how stupid and lazy are these factory workers? They are SOOO stupid and lazy that: They deserve everything that's happened to bring them? After all, if they were good, hardworking people this couldn't have happened to them, right? Isn't that the theory?
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