Exclusive: Amazon office workers in New York requested to donate time over to Fresh delivery process during firm’s busiest time

Corporate employees of Amazon were asked on Monday to volunteer their time to the company’s warehouses to assist with grocery delivery as it heads into its annual discount spree known as Prime Day.

In a Slack message reviewed by the Guardian that went to thousands of white-collar workers in the New York City area from engineers to marketers, an Amazon area manager called for corporate “volunteers to help us out with Prime Day to deliver to customers on our biggest days yet”. It is not clear how many took up the offer.

  • Bosht@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I remember when, on heavy days and holidays, you’d get bonuses. Fuck Amazon

  • Tire@lemmy.ml
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    6 days ago

    Does anyone actually care about Prime Day? Isn’t it a bunch of cheap crap that’s marked up then “down”?

    • j0ester@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      4K 34-inch OLED Alienware monitor for $550 on Prime Day. Originally $1100. Only thing I care for.

    • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
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      6 days ago

      They do that to a degree but its uaully still discounted, just not as much as you think. I work in a store that price matches amazon and we had to resticker 20 times as many products as on a normal day.

  • justanothermonkey@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    The best part of this is that with how scarce jobs are getting, these corpos are going to start incentivizing folks to do this kind of shit by “laying off” workers who won’t stand for this. Like you get brownie points for doing free work and in turn get a little more job security. Think about it, if you won’t do it - someone else will, and people need jobs. Man fuck those people.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    6 days ago

    I would never volunteer one unpaid minute for any employer. I don’t see them volunteering any money because your personal life is going through a rough patch.

  • Ikarius@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    “No, no, they’re not slaves. They’re highly skilled workers with short-term contracts. And they even get food.”. This is how I see it.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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      6 days ago

      I’d love to boycott Amazon, but we rely on them for food deliveries. Instead, I like to order things individually throughout the day. I don’t wait and collect orders, and send them at once, I send them as I think of them. That way each order is billed separately, making each order as expensive as possible, wasting just a bit of Bezos’ profit, and making sure his employees are working and getting paid.

        • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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          5 days ago

          The dumbest shit is thinking that everyone has the same access to food as you do. Not everybody has a grocery store nearby, or a way to get to it.

          • MellowYellow13@lemmy.world
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            5 days ago

            And relying on Amazon food delivery is still the worst and dumbest shit you could ever do. You’re literally ordering individual food items throughout the day from them, what is wrong with you lmao. Furthermore you are enriching Amazon not the opposite like you tried to claim.

    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6 days ago

      Because we are in the smallest minority of people that care enough to change our shopping habits or willingly pay more for something to avoid Amazon.

      I know literally nobody in real life that shares my views and most will think I’m a weirdo for being so vocal about avoiding certain companies, taking part in boycotts, or protesting.