Would you work at Amazon?

[garbon]

I get calls from Amazon recruiters pretty regularly - like once every 4 months or so.

Since I am currently looking for a new position, it would be tempting to consider, but I don't want to move to Seattle,

What is wrong with you?!??!

???

We already know what is wrong with you.

Yeah, I choose to live in better cities.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

What is wrong with you?!??!

I don't know about Berk, but I am rather attached to the East Coast.  I am currently as far west as I care to go, and really don't want to move due north either.

[Barrister]

What is wrong with you?!??!

I don't know about Berk, but I am rather attached to the East Coast.  I am currently as far west as I care to go, and really don't want to move due north either.

What is wrong with you?!??!

[Tonitrus]

I get calls from Amazon recruiters pretty regularly - like once every 4 months or so.

Since I am currently looking for a new position, it would be tempting to consider, but I don't want to move to Seattle,

What is wrong with you?!??!

???

We already know what is wrong with you.

Yeah, I choose to live in better cities.

Wow.

Just wow.

[Caliga]

I don't know about Berk, but I am rather attached to the East Coast.  I am currently as far west as I care to go, and really don't want to move due north either.

Can't understand that mentality.  I love the West Coast.  Would move there in a heartbeat if it made financial sense and I didn't have compelling family reasons not to.

[MadImmortalMan]

You're right, I should have read the article before replying. 

That said, I know the warehouse staff are worked rather hard too (as in, given physical distance targets measured through tracking devices).

I guess Amazon must pay well enough to attract these people.

You guess wrong. The warehouse people make barely more than minimum wage. The major facility near where I live is the one whose workers sued the company a while back to be paid for all the time they spend going through security screenings. Like a half hour a day or so. Remember that?

I have hired several people out of Amazon who just wanted out and were completely burnt. Nearly all of them were extremely good hires, who, if you don't burn them out, will give you many years of exceptional productivity. Treating people like that is not profitable in the long run. But hey, I got the benefit of their mistake.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

I have hired several people out of Amazon who just wanted out and were completely burnt. Nearly all of them were extremely good hires, who, if you don't burn them out, will give you many years of exceptional productivity. Treating people like that is not profitable in the long run. But hey, I got the benefit of their mistake.

They are capitalizing on their reputation to draw people in.  It's just like the game studios: so many people want to work there that they can get away with treating them like shit and burning them out because there is always fresh meat to be had.  Law, finance, and the other industries famous for this type of shit have the same deep pipelines.

Thing is, this intensifying negative publicity is going to kill Amazon in the long run, because they have competition for their talent from many other, saner companies.  Too much of this and their talent pipeline will dry up

[Josquius]

I've definitely heard a lot in the past about the warehouses being horrible. Iirc there was a bbc or channel 4 documentary not too long ago where someone went undercover in one.
First big negatives I've heard of the offices though. Does seem rather horrid.

Though from all I've heard Seattle seems to be one of the top 5 or 6 places in the US to me. A bit freakishly far from home but I could do it.

[DGuller]

Hell no.  That kind of environment would not bring out the best in me.  I would not be a good worker, and I would not be a good person.

[Admiral Yi]

I have no problem with telling others their ideas suck; I would pay for the privilege.

I have no problem with constant measurement of performance, as long as the activity they're measuring is rational.

I don't mind pulling long hours to meet a crazy deadline every once in a while, it can be kind of fun sometimes.  But I couldn't do it all the time.

[Razgovory]

I'll work for anyone who will hire me.

[The Brain]

How much radioactivity do they handle?

[Norgy]

They are capitalizing on their reputation to draw people in. 

That won't last much longer. Bezos is a dick, and I stopped buying from Amazon more than a year ago.
Fuck that company and their libertarian CEO.

[The Brain]

Everytime I shop at Amazon I kill a kitten.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Everytime I shop at Amazon I kill a kitten.

Do they ship them to you live so you can get the thrill of hte kill? The self-hatred fades as you snuff the life from the little fluff ball, and you feel the exultation that only killing can give you. Though it can't match that of the timet hat that stupid bitch just wouldn't move out of the way of you car fast enough.  You are one sick bastard.