Overheard in a bar
We went out for beers last night & ended up sitting with some managers from amazon. What we heard was pretty disturbing & disheartening:
AMAZON MANAGER 1: it's amazing how many workers get injured by the Kiva robots
AMAZON MANAGER 2: haha yeah our employees are dumb
The amazon managers were excited for the new disciplinary system to roll out so "we can write up the older workers who can't work too fast".
AMAZON MANAGER: yeah we're pretty strongly anti-union
ME: why
MANAGER: unions get employees expectations too high. that's not our culture
The worst part of the conversation was that the managers were all young, self-identifying liberals who had been indoctrinated so quickly.
Most notable was the Amazon manager who said her workers were "sh*t" & "don't deserve jobs" while she also noted that her dream job is helping refugee populations. LOL.