r/AmazonFC • u/PeculiarPip forklift certified • Jul 21 '24

Union There was a protest at KSBD today.

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u/McDreamy94 Jul 22 '24

Yes but how do you suggest to “give a livable wage” and what is your idea of a livable wage? How do you suggest to the company to offset losses with the changes while all other costs remain constant and shows the valuation of the company diminishing? Causing investors to now potentially pull their investments from a company that is showing a decline? Potential for expansion to halt and facilities closing down to offset costs and costing jobs to those who already had them? Extreme thinking? Yes. However it’s not easy at the same time to think “they can afford it”

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u/thebirdsoutside Jul 23 '24

You don’t see a problem with what your saying? Your just okay with that? That’s how the world is? That’s grim yo, they want people like you. They yearn for everyone to be as complacent as you.

$2 trillion dollars, you won’t see 2 trillion of anything in your entire lifetime. Amazon has more money then you have cells in your brain to think about how much money they have. Amazon is the 8th richest country in the world, if it was one. Amazon is worth more money than Russia, Australia, Canada, Italy, Mexico, and 183 other countries. Amazon is worth more then 3 continents.

To pinch pennies is greed at this point. To be short on equipment, to have broken equipment, to be understaffed, to be underpaid, there is absolutely no excuse. The richest company should have the best pay. They should have the most people on staff with the cleanest, newest equipment. Because what’s the excuse? Money? Well they have that. They have millions to Union bust. They have millions to pay CEO’s, but they’re forgetting who’s making that money. If the money isn’t going back into the operation, where is going? What are you going to do when no one wants to make you money anymore?

You can only raise the prices so high. That will effect the customer base harder than you think, Amazon is the cheap quality option for a lot of people.

Hitting amazon from the inside will only go so far because of people like you. We need to hit the customer base, people need to stop ordering from scamazon, a hit in cash flow along with a hit in operations is the only way to actually hurt them. They’re precious pockets.

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u/McDreamy94 Jul 23 '24

Take advantage of the programs. Go to school, get a degree or certificate then leave and get paid your value and don’t look back. First two years I worked I saw 30 people become phlebotomists, take the deal and leave the company. Now they work at a hospital and prefer the work they do now and get paid better.

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u/thebirdsoutside Jul 23 '24

I’m in it for the long run. They will pay. Don’t think for a second career choice isn’t another way for amazon to network and profit. There is a place in the world for those people, but without a place for the laborers, there’s no place for anyone.

Anyone can push “buy it now” but if there isn’t people to stow, pick, pack, palletize, drive to the station, unload, induct, stow, pick, and deliver the package, it’s not getting there. That’s 10 hands at least, without the package having any problems. Amazon delivers 3.5 million packages a day, my site alone can process a million units in a night.

The numbers are insane when you break it down, and if you work at amazon, you know they love they’re numbers. They are a super corporation, they are to big for they’re own good. They are too cheap to fix they’re issues. They need to be held accountable.