Posted on Sep 1, 2017
Washington Post writer slams Jeff Bezos in op-ed for mistreating workers
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HAHAHA!!! Sgt Wayne Wood. People have to stop taking things personal and being so sensitive, in my opinion.
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About 4 years ago, a former Amazon contract worker wrote an open letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos that brutally dissected his temp hiring policies: "the revolving door of new hires encourages low quality work, inconsistent productivity and wastes useful resources on training," Steven Barker wrote, after a stint as a contract worker developing Amazon's X-Ray for TV and Movies.
Barker alleged that Amazon has a policy of hiring temporary contract workers who are let go when they've served 11 months, preventing them from becoming permanent employees.
The result is that important projects at Amazon such as X-Ray (which allows Kindle users to tap the screen for more info on characters in movies) end up being run by poorly motivated temps, and those temps end up training the new temps, in an endless cycle of increasingly inexperienced, demotivated employees who have no incentive to do quality work because Amazon is "a dead end." As far as I can determine, Bezos leans toward liberalism heavily, but has been described as being attracted to right-libertarian politics. I am a bit gun-shy of this guy, but I must admit that I patronize Amazon quite a bit.
Barker alleged that Amazon has a policy of hiring temporary contract workers who are let go when they've served 11 months, preventing them from becoming permanent employees.
The result is that important projects at Amazon such as X-Ray (which allows Kindle users to tap the screen for more info on characters in movies) end up being run by poorly motivated temps, and those temps end up training the new temps, in an endless cycle of increasingly inexperienced, demotivated employees who have no incentive to do quality work because Amazon is "a dead end." As far as I can determine, Bezos leans toward liberalism heavily, but has been described as being attracted to right-libertarian politics. I am a bit gun-shy of this guy, but I must admit that I patronize Amazon quite a bit.
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Sgt Wayne Wood
He may be lib but he knows temps are cheaper that regular employees... no benefits, lower pay, treat 'em like office supplies... use 'em up, rinse, repeat.
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Sgt Wayne Wood
Been a temp... also been a contract consultant who cleans up the mess from time to time...
Guess it depends on where you are it the food chain
Guess it depends on where you are it the food chain
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