Comment on Amazon cloud boss says employees unhappy with 5-day office mandate can leave

• EnderMB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  As someone that has worked for/with several small companies, including those involved in wellness and promoting mental health, that’s a load of shit. Lots of employers are ruthless and evil, including many of the ones people here work for. Amazon is no different, they’re just much larger.

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  • haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You have exactly the attitude of someone able to work for a monster like amazon. Unnecessary aggressive and condescending.

    Thanks for making my point.

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    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      1 out of every 169 people work for Amazon. Your stance is that they’re all evil.

      How privileged you must be to have loads of employment options at your fingertips.

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      • haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        My stance is that most people have poor reading comprehension. Thanks for making my point.

        I said „without necessity“. Having no other comparable options qualifies as necessity in my book.

        Activism is great but the moment people shun others for not ruining themselves for the cause they become radicals.

        So no, thats not my stance.

        And no, I havent been born privileged in the typical western way. But I have the privilege of being pretty smart which enabled me to escape the prison of an uneducated, violent household.

        And yes, I hold people accountable for not giving a shit about others. Deal with it.

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    • EnderMB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Imagine being this ignorant…

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      • haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        And more condescension. Its as if more of the same thing will do different things.

        Maybe add some racism or climate denial to the mix. Just for some seasoning.

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  • BigBenis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’ve spent most of my career working at small companies and they’ve all had fantastic work/life balance policies while also not skimping out on compensation packages. I guess you’ve just got to know how to pick 'em ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    Having no tolerance for being treated like a machine rather than a human also helps.

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• Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I buy on Amazon because quite frankly it’s cheaper. It used to be the case where you could look up an item on Amazon search the supplier and buy it directly many times with it cheaper than Amazon. Nowadays that’s not the case.

  Principles can only go so far, there is no reason anymore for me to go through the hassle of searching for the item on amazon, searching up the merchant online to see if they have a web page(many don’t), going through the hassle of having to fill in the payment information and then also having to worry about each and every company’s return policy; when I can just order it through Amazon, usually get free shipping on the item which already saves me seven or eight dollars a purchase, and not have to worry about any of the hassle and if something goes wrong I know that more than likely Amazon will have my back during the return process.

  People buy from the company because they’re able to offer a service that many other businesses do not do strictly because of their size, and unfortunately I don’t think that’s fixable

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  • EnderMB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I don’t think you should be downvoted, but where I will disagree is on price. Amazon is rarely the cheaper option nowadays, and more often than not I can find the same product for the same price or cheaper elsewhere.

    Where Amazon used to have the market cornered (and still do to some extent) is in logistics. Few companies can easily commit to next day delivery (let alone same day), but that’s quickly changing with companies looking to take on Amazon in this market.

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    • Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      From my experience Amazon is generally either on par or equal to the price of straight from the source, which means when you add the free shipping to it, it’s generally cheaper from my experience. It could just be me not living in a super populated state though

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  • jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s only cheaper for tatty knockoff garbage that breaks the first time. Real brands are the same price as anywhere else.

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  • haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    i can see your point. i for example did buy from amazon once so far this year. it was because the product I needed was expensive and part of a business calculation where i dont have the luxury to waste money.

    however, I bought more than a hundred smaller products off of local sellers which are more expensive but i was able to afford it.

    thats all I’m asking. that folks make a concious effort to prefer local sellers if they can, not some one dimensional exclusivity that will not work anyway.

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