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Of that concentrated wealth is that they have a huge massive army of workers who handle all of those packages. theyre the ones who make amazon all the money, along with the companys bottom line that work and ballooned last year. last year between july and october, amazon hired 350,000 new employees. thats more people than live in the entire city of st. louis, missouri. they added 350,000 new workers just from july to october. right now, amazon is the second largest private employer in the united...

Jeff bezos recently said that he wants to do things differently and the question is now, how far will he go? >> reading about this is a business story. you can almost imagine a sort of evil genius on the business side thinking boy i wish i had that. i wish i had the ability to treat workers that disposable. to automate all of their interactions with the company. to have them get hired by a machine and fired by a machine, and have them not have anybody to call and complain, and i can just turn th...

Only fulfillment center for the new york city area. reporters from the "new york times" spent months talking to employees who work inside that facility. and today they published what they found. this is the headline. "the amazon that customers dont see." the times interviewed 200 current and former employees for the piece. many work inside the giant facility. and what they were able to thread together is a bluntly picture of working in that fulfillment center, especially during covid. heres one ...

Officials new york records show no reported cases from the facility until november. the times noted city officials dispute what happened. believe me bh i tell yo that horrible confusion with the family, this discrepancy with reporting covid cases and facilities started the tip of the iceberg. this block buster paints a picture about american workplace where employees have been fired by mistake. and unable to find any real human being to fix it. let alone reinstate them. a company that suffers fr...

Wisconsin republican senator ron johnson had previously blocked this, but i guess today he got over it? the bill will now go to the democratically controlled house. it is expected to pass in the house. still tbd on when exactly, but after that, it is expected to be signed into law by president biden. it has been almost 40 years since the last new federal holiday was created. the holiday honoring reverend dr. martin luther king jr. that was created in 1983. but were about to get another one. if y...

Through at least the american workforce in the way that is going to force them to change. they cant just keep doing this. the on ten millions americans were going to apply for these jobs every year. if this is what the jobs are like. >> there were some courageous veterans who went on the record with my colleague karen weiss. why they told karen in seattle is that they are deeply worried. they are worried about amazon running out of workers and theyre also running -- some basis idea like the idea...

What the jobs are like. >> some went on the record and on the story with karen wise. what they told her is they are deeply worried. worried about amazon running out of the workers and worried about scale. what they are saying is that some of the bezos ideas that workers are more or less lazy. and human beings want to expend less effort, et cetera, et cetera. they were seeing these were interesting ideas when you try them in a smaller workplace. when you try to scale them up to these gigantic pro...

Reach somebody from amazon to find out what happened. most of the calls and emails went unanswered and then finally she got someone on the phone who agreed it was an error and reinstated the payments. but then she got an email from amazon addressed to her husband that made no sense and said quote, we notified your manager in hr wrap about your return to work on october 1st 2020. what? mr. castillo cannot eat or talk let along work. how is he gonna go back to work? especially since the company no...

Did the story and what they told her is they are deeply worried. worried about amazon running out of the workers and worried about scale. some of the bezos ideas that workers are more or less lazy. and human beings want to expend less effort. these were interesting ideas when you try them in a smaller workplace. when you try to scale them up to these giant proportions. in some cases with computers doing the work and some human intervention. not always a ton. that is when the system begins to bre...

Look at what "the times" is now reporting. amazon said it was disclosing confirmed cases to health officials new york records show no reported cases from the amazon facility until november. "the times" notes that amazon and city officials dispute what happened. believe me when i tell you that horrible confusion with the family, this discrepancy with reporting covid cases and facilities started the tip of the iceberg. this blockbuster in "the times" paints a picture about american workplace where...