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"Amazon warehouses are ‘cult-like’ sweatshops run by robots"...

... according to this NY Post piece written by a 46-year-old woman who worked there for a month

The woman, Maureen Donnelly, does assert that the place is "cult-like":

On the first day, about 100 of us newbies gathered in a conference room, and a bunch of managers got up to talk. They were all the same. They all drank the Kool-Aid. They all said, “This is the best place to work.”

Looking back, it was cult-like.

So... it's cult-like because other employees keep saying it's a great place to work? I really don't understand the "cult" idea here. Donnelly is disappointed that her work stocking shelves was repetitive — you keep putting one thing and then another on a shelf — and that she didn't have much contact with other people — because robotic carts brought her the things she needed to put on the shelf, but the argument that it's a "'cult-like' sweatshop" is hyperbole.

The job crushed my spirit — and crippled my body. I would spent nearly 12 hours a day with with no one to talk to for more than five minutes. I wasn’t sleeping well. I was getting cranky with family. My knees were killing me. My back and shoulders constantly hurt. My left hip throbbed. After every shift, I’d ice my swollen ankles, which were triple the normal size.

Donnelly doesn't say what kind of physical condition she was in when she started, but it's clear that this wasn't a good job for her. I'm just not seeing how this is a terrible job in general. The 12-hour days are part of a 4-day work week, and she was paid $16 dollars an hour for work that was easy to do if you can tolerate the standing and the boredom. Are workers paid by the hour aggrieved when they don't have social interactions that go on longer than 5 minutes?

I should say that I make some money from Amazon (and urge you to use my "Amazon Portal"), and I do much of my own shopping through Amazon (and don't like thinking I'm part of a system that oppresses workers). So don't just adopt my opinion, but my only opinion is that this article is an individual's subjective complaint and there's not enough evidence of a "'cult-like' sweatshop."

For background on sweatshops, here's the Wikipedia article:

Sweatshop (or sweat factory) is a pejorative term for a workplace that has very poor, socially unacceptable working conditions. The work may be difficult, dangerous, climatically challenged or underpaid....

[T]he concept of a sweatshop originated between 1830 and 1850 as a specific type of workshop in which a certain type of middleman, the sweater, directed others in garment making (the process of producing clothing) under arduous conditions. The terms sweater for the middleman and sweat system for the process of subcontracting piecework were used in early critique...

Here's where the Wikipedia article on Amazon talks about the working conditions. The main problem seems to be inadequate air-conditioning.

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