Arrival of Amazingly Awesome Amazon

[Deactivated] on 28/11/2017 - 14:40
Last edited 28/11/2017 - 14:56

Hi

Just read this article and I was amazed.

Hope and wish the best for Amazon Australian workers here.

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/amazon-workers-working-…

Amazon uk

  • long hours and relentless targets

  • timed toilet breaks

  • workers asleep standing

  • had to process a parcel every 30 seconds

  • some workers collapsed on the job

  • told to pack 120 items an hour, although that target is set to rise to 200 items.

  • Workers are paid £8.20 (AUD 14.37) an hour.

Then again , Australia is also not that innocence.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/30/australian-sla…

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Comments

  • dcep on 28/11/2017 - 14:41
    +12

    easy, don't apply for job you don't like doing ?

  • garetz on 28/11/2017 - 14:47
    +4

    Labor works like any other commodity, if they cant find people to fulfill the positions, then they are offering too little. People dont have to do a job they dont want to do, thats a free market.

    • Euphemistic on 28/11/2017 - 15:45
      +3

      If they can't get anyone to work at their low rates, they'll end up building robots to do it.

      • whooah1979 on 28/11/2017 - 16:08
        +1

        they'll end up building robots to do it.

        Who's going to build the robots that's needed to build the robots?

        • GetOffMyUnicorn on 28/11/2017 - 16:14
          +1

          "Who's going to build the robots that's needed to build the robots?"

          Other robots from outer space.

        • [Deactivated] on 28/11/2017 - 16:20
          +1

          skynet

        • djkelly69 on 28/11/2017 - 16:54
          +1

          Coastguard.

      • Thrift on 28/11/2017 - 16:23
        +5

        And then they'll add AI, and the robots will refuse to work… and probably enslave humans to pack the damn Amazon boxes.

        • Euphemistic on 28/11/2017 - 16:31
          +10

          I saw this documentary where the robots were taking over and using humans in a matrix as a power source. They were also feeding the humans some sort of virtual reality into the back of their necks.

        • [Deactivated] on 28/11/2017 - 18:52

          @Euphemistic:
          Was episode 2 in Latin?

  • HighAndDry on 28/11/2017 - 14:49
    +5

    Would they rather be unemployed? I mean, there's nothing saying anyone's being forced to work for Amazon.

    Though true:

    as they reportedly had to process a parcel every 30 seconds.

    Efficiency targets is something a lot of Aussie workers may not be familiar with.

    Edit: So OP, do you work for EBay or Gerry?

    • Gronk on 28/11/2017 - 16:13
      +6

      Edit: So OP, do you work for EBay or Gerry?

      Funny, that was my first thought too after reading all that…

  • [Deactivated] on 28/11/2017 - 15:01
    +12

    So basically better than 7-Eleven and George Calombaris.

  • AlienC on 28/11/2017 - 15:20
    +3

    Sounds like my old warehouse "service technician" job.

    Clean a few electronics and container boxes per minute.

    Reprogram some refurbished hardware to new settings program or firmware.

    Package some medical equipment in plastic packaging then scan then package some more then scan then box it up.

    My favourite was rolling the bigger drums of paper into smaller drums of paper using a rolling machine.

    And some countless other mundane mind numbing jobs.

    Not that bad to be honest if your work place has good ventilation and is peaceful.

    • HighAndDry on 28/11/2017 - 15:44
      +7

      I must be a little burnt out from what I do right now because that actually sounds like a great way to make some money: mindless, no need to think, doesn't follow you home, kind of work…

      • Jalif on 29/11/2017 - 09:38
        +1

        I've always found this sort of job makes a good second job.

        You use a different part of your brain, and different muscles.

        A mental job, and a second physical job.

  • GetOffMyUnicorn on 28/11/2017 - 16:05
    +8

    Can't wait for the next exciting thread.

    "Hungry Jacks staff forced to prepare countless whoppers on busy Saturday shift"

    • boomramada on 29/11/2017 - 07:46

      Burgers are better at Hungry Jacks

  • havebeerbelywillsumo on 28/11/2017 - 16:49
    -1

    Beware, Amazingly Awesome Smug Magnet located here.

  • try2bhelpful on 28/11/2017 - 17:17
    +4

    This appears to be the next job they will be getting overseas students and backpackers to do. How many 4XX visas is the government going to issue so they can drive down workers wages. Meanwhile management's paypackets just keep going up.

    • [Deactivated] on 28/11/2017 - 17:22
      +2

      Aren't you management?

    • GetOffMyUnicorn on 28/11/2017 - 17:34

      Try2bhelpful, It's called a free market.

      • Diji1 on 28/11/2017 - 18:19
        +3

        a free market.

        A meaningless phrase that people like to bandy about that was coined by Adam Smith. Ironically he coined the phrase whilst arguing that enterprise needs to be regulated strongly or it won't pay it's dues to society like taxes.

        • HighAndDry on 28/11/2017 - 20:22
          -7

          I hate these kinds of comments. It makes the commenter sound superior to "people", summarizes (beyond the point of usefulness) an unavoidably complex concept, and does so to advance the commenter's own ideological viewpoint or agenda. And the worst thing? I've run out of negs to give.

          So that I don't fall into the same trap:

          1. Adam Smith coined the phrase, but that doesn't mean that the concept has not progressed in the literal centuries since. Case in point, would you rather be born into 18th century Scotland or any western nation in the modern day?

          2. You're right in that even the "free market" needs regulation for when there are natural barriers to competition, whether government regulations for society's wellbeing (e.g. pharmaceuticals), high barriers to entry (cost of laying fiber), or situations where natural monopolies exist (e.g. utilities); HOWEVER labour is not one of these - there is literally no significant barrier to entry to either the labour market, or to employing someone.

          3. You know what else I hate? There is a completely cogent argument to advance your point, just not one re the benefits of the free market, but that a government's duty is to its own citizens, and so even IF government regulation, in the sense of immigration controls which impede the movement of labour leads to higher inefficiency overall, it should be implemented if it's beneficial for the country.

        • afoveht on 28/11/2017 - 20:39

          @0blivion:

          I've run out of negs to give.

          I, on the other hand, invest my negs wisely in the free market of votes. Here, let me trickle one down to you.

        • HighAndDry on 28/11/2017 - 20:41
          +1

          @thevofa: Touche.

        • GetOffMyUnicorn on 28/11/2017 - 20:45
          +1

          The term 'free market' has been used since the 1700's and repeated by virtually every economist ever since. I'd hardly call it meaningless.

        • MrBear on 29/11/2017 - 21:48

          @0blivion:

          I hate these kinds of comments. It makes the commenter sound superior to "people"…

          I hate these kinds of comments. It makes the commenter sound superior to "people"…

  • x2r9ypbj on 29/11/2017 - 08:42
    +1

    Do not agree went to Amazon home page to buy ink for my h p printer cost $63.00
    E/bay the same ink $50.00 So Amazon is not cheap is it.

  • iforgotmysocks on 29/11/2017 - 08:46
    +2

    Hi Gerry thanks for stopping by ozbargain

  • Slippage on 29/11/2017 - 09:23
    +2

    Get no sympathy here, don't like the work, don't apply for the job.

    long hours and relentless targets

    Sounds like every job i've worked at.

    timed toilet breaks

    Common in many jobs. my wife worked in a call centre, they were allocated something like 23minutes in the week for "personal time". That is any time that they were not set as available in the phone system (excluding preset lunch break)

    workers asleep standing

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5117359/Drugged-cash…

    But in all seriousness, I've fallen asleep at work before (EOFY). Luckily I have a desk job and my co workers aren't jerks.

    had to process a parcel every 30 seconds

    "process" is very open ended. My mail man achieves this with ease and has to drive from house to house. These guys are standing still/sitting in the same location.

    some workers collapsed on the job

    Work less hours

    told to pack 120 items an hour, although that target is set to rise to 200 items.

    So process a parcel every 30 seconds (120/hour) / pack 120 items an hour (1 every 30 seconds). Seams reasonable.

    Workers are paid £8.20 (AUD 14.37) an hour.

    That's minimum wage in the UK, In Aus it's AUD$18.29.
    So they are been paid $18 to do the most basic of functions. I'm surprised they haven't brought in the robots.

  • [Deactivated] on 29/11/2017 - 09:47

    I think you guys should apply for these 'reasonable' jobs and get back to us

    I used to work a machine in my own business and it's not so simple

    If you expect to work someone like a machine then you have to reward them well , and have a great work environment if you expect to train people up and keep them

    I don't think the big mouth city boys could hack a physical job let alone live on award wages.
    I know most would be crying for a union rep. within a week

    • [Deactivated] on 29/11/2017 - 12:38
      +2

      I used to work in my godfather's factory during university holidays. The moaning fulltime workers pretended to be salt of the Earth, but had gout due to their liquid six-pack breakfasts. It just took an arm wrestle for a soft private school boy to shut their school of hard knocks war stories up.

      • [Deactivated] on 29/11/2017 - 16:22

        My Hero !???

        • [Deactivated] on 29/11/2017 - 16:26
          +2

          No, but listening to your clampet 'physical' labour Chuck Norris stories wears thin.

        • [Deactivated] on 29/11/2017 - 16:35

          @Frugal Rock: all of my stories mmm,
          You're being a bit of a drama queen

        • [Deactivated] on 29/11/2017 - 16:36
          +1

          @Beach Bum:
          "You're" showing your yokel education level right there, chucky dang darnit. Go on, tell me how you took shrapnel to skull and it caused Doogie Howser MD soliloquy, self-narrative moments.

  • [Deactivated] on 29/11/2017 - 16:37

    I wonder if being a smartass on the internet can pay your bills ?

    Ok , now I'm finished feeding the troll

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