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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 50260109  United States11/25/2013 02:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What would be cool is to run around on a Segway ,I could get a lot of work done on one of those and they would have happy employees...OSHA should insist. Quoting: Kootsweet Hope you are being sarcastic, because I don't think they have $5-10k to plop down on each employee for no good reason. 11 miles over 10 hours ( they get a 1 hour fucking break) is NOT strenuous. You can easily walk a mile in 12-15 minutes. Hell, if they took 20 minutes to way a mile then they could be walking 30 miles in 10 hours. I used to work a job where I was on my feet 16 hours a day for most days. Sure - your feet kill you, but only if you just stand around all day. I had to wear dress shoes too - this guy could be sporting some nice sneakers or work boots. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 50572492 United States11/25/2013 02:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | One of the first jobs I ever had was driving a forklift in a warehouse. I'd never stepped foot on a forklift before. So when I gunned the engine, the first time, I forgot to lower the forks and ended up smashing a row of overhanging florescent tubes. |
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artemis133  User ID: 47117637 United States11/25/2013 02:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Undercover reporter Adam Littler, 23, got an agency job at Amazon's Swansea warehouse. He took a hidden camera inside for BBC Panorama to record what happened on his shifts. Quoting: Goofy for God He was employed as a "picker", collecting orders from 800,000 sq ft of storage. A handset told him what to collect and put on his trolley. It allotted him a set number of seconds to find each product and counted down. If he made a mistake the scanner beeped. "We are machines, we are robots, we plug our scanner in, we're holding it, but we might as well be plugging it into ourselves", he said. [link to www.bbc.co.uk]  When Mr Littler worked night shifts his pay rose from the daily rate of £6.50 per hour to £8.25 per hour. Amazon UK parcel Amazon said the safety of its employees was its "number one priority" After experiencing a ten-and-a-half-hour night shift, he said: "I managed to walk or hobble nearly 11 miles, just short of 11 miles last night. I'm absolutely shattered. My feet are the thing that are bothering me the most to be honest. Well if he is walking 11 miles per day to and from work that might add to the being tired. He logged 11 miles walking AT work, not to and from. I know; I work at a warehouse for a large national craft store chain, and 11 miles walking per night at work doesn't surprise me. We've been working 10 hour days, M-Sat. and 8 on Sundays, no break, for 2 months now. Last month, there have been 15 OSHA recordable accidents there, with many more smaller accidents. Many people getting hurt because of fatigue. Greedy bastards. Crazy cat lady in training... "Society always honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers" ~Mignon McLaughlin "The lost child, crying, crying, but still catching the fireflies." ~Ryusui "Oh, yeah, life goes on, even after the thrill of livin' is gone..."~John Mellencamp |
| Pa resident1 User ID: 46929826 United States11/25/2013 03:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 50338244 I really, truly don't want to offend you, or to make it sound as though I don't believe that all children deserve to be properly fed, no matter the expense (because I do believe that all children deserve that), but...honestly, your statements are quite confusing, hypocritical and contradictory. If your family receives food stamps, you basically are "getting a free ride", in some respects. And, if your family is relying upon money from other taxpayers (which food stamps are), then "the strongest and the toughest" people are actually those who work hard to give your family those benefits -- not you. I don't mean harsh, but do you see what I mean, and why your statements might upset some people? My family members and I would love to be able to stay home and just sell books on Amazon for a living, but that isn't going to pay enough to cover our rent, utilities, gas and groceries...and I could never, in good conscience, accept money from the government (in the form of food stamps and such) just because I wanted to sit home. It just isn't fair, at all, to everyone else who works hard to earn money for their families but receives no extra benefits. (I have two friends that are single mothers, and they would love to be able to stay home, too -- but, instead, they each work multiple jobs so that they can provide for their children, without the assistance of others.) So, all in all, it seems extremely callous and unfair of you to criticize that man for being "unhappy with his job" when your family is getting food stamps and free lunches, and not doing anything remotely close to the intense labor that he is doing. Exactly. Original OP in this quote is a lazy, self righteous leech. She (or he) needs to go out and get a job that pays the bills WITHOUT a need to suck off the taxpayer funded dole. I am so sick of self righteous leeches. Sitting at home on your ass selling books on Amazon is a luxury. Get a fucking job or two and get off the taxpayer funded dole. Who ever thinks sitting at home with children is an easy job is nuts. Raising children and taking care of a household PLUS having a work from home job is a lot of work. Just taking care of kids and a household IS a full time job in itself!!!!! A job that one does NOT get paid for!!!! In this economy, depending on what area you live in, there are lack of jobs. And once a job is obtained, then you have to find child care. Child care is really expensive and sometimes even two full time working parents cannot afford it.... IMO it is better for children to have one of the parents home at least part-time or full time (of course depending on the parent that is) Staying at home with your kids is a luxury. It is not the taxpayers responsibility to support leeches who pop out kids they can't afford to stay home with them. The OP in this quote said that he/she receives no child support. He/she needs to go over the baby daddy/momma so THEY can support their spawn rather than leeching off the taxpayers so he/she can sit at home on his/her ass or he/she needs to get a full time job or two and support the kids without the taxpayer funded dole. THAT is the point you are missing you dumbass. Staying home with your kids is a luxury and if you are on the dole in any shape or form you need to get your ass out of the house and find some jobs to support your spawn. If that means putting them in daycare tough shit. Maybe the daddy is dead, or in jail. If so, than so called mother can't get child support. A luxury? Hey, lets put you on that show where they put those who think it's easy to raise kids with kids for a week with the laundry, cooking dinner (three meals a day), going for groceries, changing shitty diapers etc etc. and see if you think it's a freaking luxury. Unbelievable how some people do not get it, nor do they have any compassion whatsoever. Last Edited by Pa resident1 on 11/25/2013 03:47 PM "When you don't keep your word, you lose credibility and trustworthy friends" |
| Pa resident1 User ID: 46929826 United States11/25/2013 03:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Who ever thinks sitting at home with children is an easy job is nuts. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 49191574 Raising children and taking care of a household PLUS having a work from home job is a lot of work. Just taking care of kids and a household IS a full time job in itself!!!!! A job that one does NOT get paid for!!!! In this economy, depending on what area you live in, there are lack of jobs. And once a job is obtained, then you have to find child care. Child care is really expensive and sometimes even two full time working parents cannot afford it.... IMO it is better for children to have one of the parents home at least part-time or full time (of course depending on the parent that is) This is truth. When I was growing up, most wives did not work. I felt sorry for kids whose moms went to work. Everyone went home for lunch and mom would have a nice hot lunch waiting and then you'd go back. There was one kid whose mom was a librarian and he had to sit at his desk alone and eat a bag lunch. Always felt sorry for him. This is hardest on mothers who have to work full time and then raise kids and run a household. I watched my mom do it (dad worked full time too). She could not keep ahead on the household chores. Reason she had to go to work was dad was laid up for a year due to a broken bone on his back. Then once he did go back to work, it was with another company that paid him less so mom had to keep a job. Of course we could not afford for someone to come at least once a week to clean our home (when us kids were too small to help out). I remember when I was young, my mom was home (till dad broke his back), and so were a lot of other mothers. Kids seemed happier, much better behaved, and there was less sickness going around (kids were not in daycare all year round). Now a days it is a different story. Last Edited by Pa resident1 on 11/25/2013 03:48 PM "When you don't keep your word, you lose credibility and trustworthy friends" |
| nutmeg User ID: 48758836 United States12/01/2013 04:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Undercover reporter Adam Littler, 23, got an agency job at Amazon's Swansea warehouse. He took a hidden camera inside for BBC Panorama to record what happened on his shifts. Quoting: Goofy for God He was employed as a "picker", collecting orders from 800,000 sq ft of storage. A handset told him what to collect and put on his trolley. It allotted him a set number of seconds to find each product and counted down. If he made a mistake the scanner beeped. "We are machines, we are robots, we plug our scanner in, we're holding it, but we might as well be plugging it into ourselves", he said. [link to www.bbc.co.uk] 7:30pm today on CBS, 60 Minutes, "In Amazon's Warehouse." |
| Useless Cookie Eater User ID: 29696048 United States12/01/2013 05:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Undercover reporter Adam Littler, 23, got an agency job at Amazon's Swansea warehouse. He took a hidden camera inside for BBC Panorama to record what happened on his shifts. Quoting: Goofy for God He was employed as a "picker", collecting orders from 800,000 sq ft of storage. A handset told him what to collect and put on his trolley. It allotted him a set number of seconds to find each product and counted down. If he made a mistake the scanner beeped. "We are machines, we are robots, we plug our scanner in, we're holding it, but we might as well be plugging it into ourselves", he said. [link to www.bbc.co.uk] When Mr Littler worked night shifts his pay rose from the daily rate of £6.50 per hour to £8.25 per hour. Amazon UK parcel Amazon said the safety of its employees was its "number one priority" After experiencing a ten-and-a-half-hour night shift, he said: "I managed to walk or hobble nearly 11 miles, just short of 11 miles last night. I'm absolutely shattered. My feet are the thing that are bothering me the most to be honest. This same guy will complain even more when the entire system is automated by robot pickers and his job is gone. But go ahead, complain some more about mental illness and be underpaid and watch every one of those picker jobs go automated when the costs of keeping live workers there no longer makes sense. Keep complaining and demanding more....soon you will be out of a job.  |
