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The question is where can the average Amazon worker go for more money? I had a friend that worked at the local Amazon warehouse and I met a few of her co-workers. Candidly, a motely crew that had basically peaked at their income level. She did not last long as she took to much time off and they let her go. She went back to working at Waffle House.
Ha! You’re showing your age. Younger people today are much different that you and I were back in the day. Or our parents and grandparents were in theirs. My first real job was washing dishes in a restaurant at age 15 in high school - wet, slippery, greasy nasty work for $3.35 an hour and I was happy just earning a pay check. That was after running a 7 day a a week paper route for 3 years. I was just happy to have the opportunity to make some money.
Younger folks today take so much for granted and have such outrageously high expectations. Just makes me shake my head. Well, maybe this recession will cure some of that.
LOL - I was working as a dishwasher for $1.65/hr. That was a step up from my earlier job selling newspapers on Sunday for $0.50/hr. (back in the 1960s)
The question is where can the average Amazon worker go for more money? I had a friend that worked at the local Amazon warehouse and I met a few of her co-workers. Candidly, a motely crew that had basically peaked at their income level. She did not last long as she took to much time off and they let her go. She went back to working at Waffle House.
There are local warehouses for certain types of products that pay the same if not more, with FT hours. Also factories paying $20/hr FT.
Is there something wrong with "hard work"? When I was young and going to college, I was happy as could be to get a job paying minimum wage and didn't mind hard physical work at all. During the summers, I would often work 10 to 12 hours per day doing hard physical work and it didn't hurt me a bit... and I sure wasn't making anywhere close to $18 per hour... not even when adjusted for inflation.
If I were in a similar situation today, I would be tickled pink to work in an Amazon warehouse making $18 to $19 per hour. Of course, if you've never had to work hard for anything in your life and had things provided for you, then I can understand turning your nose up at physical labor.
I'm not sure how 'tickled pink' you would be. My son worked in an Amazon warehouse for three or four years. The warehouse was not air conditioned or heated and he walked between 11 and 15 miles in a 10 hour shift. And they do funny stuff that they don't think anyone notices, like firing older direct hires (as opposed to temp agency hires) because older people are more prone to have accidents or be impacted by adverse temperatures, but it was such a common practice that everyone who worked there knew what was going on when an older worker with a perfect record got escorted out the door. From what I understand after he left they installed AC units after a worker died of heat stroke
I'm not sure how 'tickled pink' you would be. My son worked in an Amazon warehouse for three or four years. The warehouse was not air conditioned or heated and he walked between 11 and 15 miles in a 10 hour shift. And they do funny stuff that they don't think anyone notices, like firing older direct hires (as opposed to temp agency hires) because older people are more prone to have accidents or be impacted by adverse temperatures, but it was such a common practice that everyone who worked there knew what was going on when an older worker with a perfect record got escorted out the door. From what I understand after he left they installed AC units after a worker died of heat stroke
LOL how big can these warehouses be? There comes a point when building materials will collapse under own weight.
Is there something wrong with "hard work"? When I was young and going to college, I was happy as could be to get a job paying minimum wage and didn't mind hard physical work at all. During the summers, I would often work 10 to 12 hours per day doing hard physical work and it didn't hurt me a bit... and I sure wasn't making anywhere close to $18 per hour... not even when adjusted for inflation.
If I were in a similar situation today, I would be tickled pink to work in an Amazon warehouse making $18 to $19 per hour. Of course, if you've never had to work hard for anything in your life and had things provided for you, then I can understand turning your nose up at physical labor.
It's about whether the wage is even worth your time. I worked for $8 an hour back in the day, but that was in a time and place where a 1br apartment could be had for $550. And at the time I rented a room in a shared apt. for $300.
When the rent for a 1br is $1750, $18/hr is actually a pay cut.
LOL how big can these warehouses be? There comes a point when building materials will collapse under own weight.
I had a friend work there, they have a large property complex with multiple warehouses.
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Nope, bad news. It means your hours will get cut.
Companies are not stupid.
The thing here is that Amazon doesn't cut hours they often have mandatory overtime.
I am old, I come from an era, where I would have liked that. But evidently some people don't like it.
In 1985 the average home price cost $82,500 with the average blue collar worker pulling around $300/week, so $7.50/hour.
To be able to have the same standard of living as the boomer generation with house prices averaging $350,000 a worker today would need to earn $31 an hour. Wages have not kept up with the ballooning asset prices.
There are some items that are actually less expensive though for example entertainment is much cheaper today than it ever has been being able to buy a TV and play video games you can do that for very little money considering how many hours of entertainment you get out of it.
I wonder if we'll see a decline in going out to restaurants and travel and an increase in more inexpensive activities with this Rising inflation and wages that aren't keeping up.
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