Good for them.
The workers not Amazon. Fuck Amazon
I wonder how many people on here still use Amazon
Ya, for the most part I try not to buy from Amazon and instead mostly buy local, mom & pop stores if there is an option for what I am looking for. BUT… Amazon has such a huge catalog that sometimes I can only find what I am needing there so I do occasionally buy from them. They also have a very good return policy if the item wasn’t what I thought it was, arrived damaged, or even if I just changed my mind. I have ordered things from other online retailers when I couldn’t find something local and then had to go through hoops to return products damaged in shipping or missing parts, etc. and have been stuck with a few things I couldn’t return. I would also like to know of better alternatives to Amazon in these instances.
My issue is that most mom & pop shops suck. Local places often have horrid customer service or business practices and are run by people who have no business running businesses. Very few are legitimately good.
And it’s not just where I live now. This has been the case everywhere I have lived.
It’s why I hate the blanket “support local” bs.
As a worker there, with 70K to 100K packages a day, one less ain’t changing anything. And to be completely honest, boycotting them enough to make them lose money would not benefit the workers at all. We’ll get laid off or have our (pretty good btw) benefits reduced or canceled. They literally are one of, if not THE, only entry-level jobs you can actually rent an apartment on in these times, without doing Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Uber Eats, Fiverr, UserTesting, OnlyFans, and every other side hustle the sun has remotely breathed on.
Not a recruiter, not Jeff in disguise, not held hostage by Jeff or Jassy, just a person satisfied with my job. I support unionization.
Yeah a friend of mine was a logistics warehouse worker for multiple companies, and she said Amazon was by-far the best. Yeah it’s not a good job, but it beats the alternatives by a mile where she lives.
That’s not how that works. If enough people boycott a service and show their displeasure, companies have to change something depending on how many people participate. It’s the same thing when it comes to climate change, veganism, whatever. Every bit counts and subtracting oneself from all responsibility with this mentality is a little naive, imho.
You’re bound to have a different experience as an employee, though. Can’t comment on that. However, things would very likely change for the better, even for you, if Amazon’s shady business practises were shunned even more than they already are. It’s insane how much of their wrongdoings have been exposed over the past years and how little people actually care
I met a guy that worked in an office job on Amazon. He said there was a crying room for when people got emotional so they wouldn’t upset their colleagues. Nobody used. Time on the crying room isn’t production time, so they dock you pay for that. He said it was an almost daily occurrence to hear someone stifling a cry in their cubicle while working.
What are you using instead?
Depends on what I need. Here in Germany, we have a bunch of electronics stores where you can get the same products for pretty much the same prices. Apart from that, I order from manufacturers’ websites directly, buy second-hand and refurbished, local stores if needed
Well, go on flaunting your “customer rights enshrined in law”, and “semi effective antitrust policies”. Here in the USA we like our monopolies and the complete deregulation of customer relations, thank you very much.
You can go to a small shop, but if the delivery service breaks your stuff and they have a crappy return policy, tough luck. Combined with unchecked monopolistic actions, that’s why Amazon reigns supreme.
👋 One of the few places where I can order where:
- You actually get all the items you order.
- They do refunds/replacements without endless harassment.
- I can actually get someone on the phone if I have a more complicated problem.
I do. It’s great. Order something Monday afternoon, most likely get it by end of business Tuesday. And the very few times there has been an issue, they always resolve it to my satisfaction.
