Corporate employees of Amazon were asked on Monday to volunteer their time to the company’s warehouses to assist with grocery delivery as it heads into its annual discount spree known as Prime Day.
In a Slack message reviewed by the Guardian that went to thousands of white-collar workers in the New York City area from engineers to marketers, an Amazon area manager called for corporate “volunteers to help us out with Prime Day to deliver to customers on our biggest days yet”. It is not clear how many took up the offer.
I would never volunteer one unpaid minute for any employer. I don’t see them volunteering any money because your personal life is going through a rough patch.
Like I tell my employer when he asks me for a favour “favours are for friends, you’re not my friend, you’re my employer, pay me”
Does anyone actually care about Prime Day? Isn’t it a bunch of cheap crap that’s marked up then “down”?
They do that to a degree but its uaully still discounted, just not as much as you think. I work in a store that price matches amazon and we had to resticker 20 times as many products as on a normal day.
The best part of this is that with how scarce jobs are getting, these corpos are going to start incentivizing folks to do this kind of shit by “laying off” workers who won’t stand for this. Like you get brownie points for doing free work and in turn get a little more job security. Think about it, if you won’t do it - someone else will, and people need jobs. Man fuck those people.
That’s until the Amazon robots take the jobs and staff are downsized https://www.wsj.com/tech/amazon-warehouse-robots-automation-942b814f
“No, no, they’re not slaves. They’re highly skilled workers with short-term contracts. And they even get food.”. This is how I see it.
If you work without pay that’s slavery
They’re paid a salary, which is probably significantly more than what drivers are paid.
Labor is labor. Stay united, comrades!
Generally this kind of thing would be overtime, though.
I thought we were boycotting bezos? Why are people still buying on Amazon?
I’d love to boycott Amazon, but we rely on them for food deliveries. Instead, I like to order things individually throughout the day. I don’t wait and collect orders, and send them at once, I send them as I think of them. That way each order is billed separately, making each order as expensive as possible, wasting just a bit of Bezos’ profit, and making sure his employees are working and getting paid.
Because we are in the smallest minority of people that care enough to change our shopping habits or willingly pay more for something to avoid Amazon.
I know literally nobody in real life that shares my views and most will think I’m a weirdo for being so vocal about avoiding certain companies, taking part in boycotts, or protesting.
volunteer to cover our glorious CEO’s wedding costs and be a part of history!
Technically he isn’t the CEO anymore. Doesn’t mean he isn’t still a cunt.
well lets settle on glorious founder and leader then
Yeah, fuck that guy.
why would anyone volunteer to do amazon warehouse work
Desperate fear of termination. There’s like a 5% chance this will help.
Is Amazon too poor to pay their employees now?
Well did you see that wedding? That shit don’t pay for itself.
Hey, that’s socialism.
You mean “buy nothing day”? Cuz that’s my plan.
I’ll volunteer some more work if you volunteer some more pay
Corporate people should spend some time periodically in the trenches anyway. Otherwise, they’re totally clueless about how everything works.
Yes, but not volunteered
It’s business hours Tue-Fri. Sounds like the volunteer isn’t for unpaid work, but for volunteering to do this instead of their normal duties for the week.
Tho I’m sure they’ll get dinged on their performance review if their regular work output reduces, so I’m guessing they will end up needing to put on unpaid hours to compensate.
I volunteer for stuff like this if it gets me out of meetings. I’ve donated over a gallon of blood at work.
