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⌈ Secret Post #6297 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Vent thread

[philstar22]

Damn it. You know what happens when you have a work culture of no one taking days off when they are sick? People bring contagious things and spread them to everyone else.

Turns out the reason I'm so sick is because on top of a sinus infection I also have the strep throat that no one told me was spreading around the office. Hopefully the antibiotic will kill both, but it is going to take a bit longer. I only made it 2 hours into work today before I had to go home. And not sure I'm going to be well enough tomorrow either. Which means I'll have used up all my sick days. By the first week of April. Argh.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

I swear most corporations in the US will voluntarily make less money due to less productivity if it means the working class will suffer while making them the less amount of money. There's absolutely no reason to make people come in to work sick, not even from a purely business-bottom-line perspective, unless the suffering is the point.

Re: Vent thread

[philstar22]

Yup, pretty much. Honestly American culture really sucks in so many ways.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

The cruelty, as always, is the point.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

Relevant. Also.

https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116

And I can't link directly to a response I read about it, so...

I want to point out something that isn't explicitly mentioned in the article, but first, keep in mind these two statements:

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Just over half of Amazon Fresh stores are equipped with Just Walk Out


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Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts.


1,000 people seems like an awful lot, but we're talking about Amazon here, so I wanted to check the number of Amazon Fresh locations they had in the United States before I jumped to conclusions about them being so eager to screw over workers that they would waste more money on overseas spy cashiers than it would cost them to just hire some teenagers. I mean, if they had hundreds of locations in US then a team of 1,000 people wouldn't be such a sunk cost. Except they don't have hundreds of locations...

They have between 40 and 50. Not between 40 and 50 thousand, just between 40 and 50.

Now I'm no systems analyst, but it seems to me that even with the severely depressed wages a company can pay to outsourced labor in India, you're not actually saving anything when you end up needing 20 guys per store. And this isn't even getting into the fact that these stores would already have employees on-site to stock the shelves and it becomes clear that this "Just Walk Out" setup is massively more costly to the company than just hiring some teenagers to work the registers would be.

And I see this so much, from so many companies these days: Dumping all this extra time and money into outsourcing or automating labor that ends up costing the company far more than just paying someone local a reasonable salary to do the work. Because at the end of the day it isn't about cost or efficiency, it's about the owner-class resenting the fact that they have to pay their employees and treat them with basic dignity, that they can't rule over their little company fiefdom in any way they see fit. Rather than pay their workers a living wage they will instead spend 100x as much destroying those jobs to spite anyone who dares ask for a modicum of respect.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

Nice to have it confirmed. I hate it here.