Amazon is Hiring 17,000 With $1,000 Signing Bonus at $17 an Hour
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2 years ago
Amazon has been a godsend…for my family’s real estate in the Washington DC area. We got a few of their workers as tenants. Love Amazon though I typically shop at cheaper places like Walmart, and I love New Yorkers too…for giving a raspberry to Amazon’s HQ2, resulting in their move to Arlington country, Virginia. Thank you AOC and her followers!
2 years ago
Read a recent opinion piece by Charles Hugh Smith on this subject that really resonated with me. The gist of it is: the pandemic has given a lot of people time to realize that struggling through the rat isn’t worth it when all the wealth and benefits go to the parasites, the Wall Street gamblers and the corporate overlords. Even $17 an hour and signing bonus might not be enough to lure people back to a s#!tty dead end job at Amazon.
link to oftwominds.com
2 years ago
Good find, enjoyed the article as well. Used to read CHS more frequently and will start doing so again.
2 years ago
Nothing to see here, no inflation at all.
2 years ago
Is it a false demand for workers because of generous government pay-outs limiting supply or is it a sign of prosperity coming back after the Covid interlude? For the moment I vote for a temporary worker shortage. One thing I note is that this is a nightmare for big companies and that they are probably not going to look favorably on any type of guaranteed income scheme. I am sure that Bezos who before would have called his people in Congress to keep the the lockdown on because he was raking it in. Now is now calling them to lift it because his profits are eaten by payrolls. Expect to see more states opening up very rapidly.
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2 years ago
Wage inflation? There it is.
My mild criticism of Amazon is more around the loss of local commerce than it is any kind of Bezos envy. I love Amazon, but I don’t love all my local retail businesses to fold up because they can’t compete. But nobody in the younger generation cares about that, so it won’t matter.
Walmart killed the mom&pops…now Amazon is giving Walmart a run for its money. I don’t shop Walmart much anyway, but I do like Sam’s and Costco and I shop there for both personal and business needs. I hope the competition keeps the prices low, but I hope the big box stores don’t get forced out.
2 years ago
Amazon has really effed up the construction market this year because of their construction program–the delivery dates for steel open-web roof joists and deck is almost 10 months out, as opposed to 6 weeks in a normal year because there are so many Amazon projects going on. In addition to the steel price increases, there are shortages developing in certain steel sections and shapes. So every other project is left waiting or has to make expensive changes.
In the end, no resumption of normality in retail, the decline will continue.
2 years ago
Not only has delivery time extended, but prices have doubled as well. A friend working for a major joist supplier told me that Amazon offered them millions of dollars to move their jobs up in the schedule. There is chaos in the metal building market as well. Delivery times are extending. There are shortages of components. The price of a buildings are up over 50% from 6 months ago and people who desperately need buildings are still ordering them. I am wondering how this will end. With a crash or slow shutdown? In the meantime being in the steel component business, we are trying to raise prices faster than our costs go up. When components increase 8 to 12% a month for several months, it is challenging.
2 years ago
It is also more than just Amazon causing the issue. My theory is that material orders were delayed by COVID. Then when the orders started being released for production, the current demand for projects this year added to the backlog and then with multiple huge Amazon projects occurring at the same time, it has created unprecedented demand. In the case of metal building components, steel mills cut their production due to COVID and then demand skyrocketed as COVID shutdowns diminished. The mills are slow to ramp up production.