working conditions – Amazon Surprise https://surprise.blackblogs.org Thu, 24 Sep 2020 09:24:42 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.1 https://surprise.blackblogs.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/1422/2020/07/az_frown_klein-150x150.png working conditions – Amazon Surprise https://surprise.blackblogs.org 32 32 4. Correct! Our market power enables us to reduce costs https://surprise.blackblogs.org/en/2020/07/10/4-correct-our-market-power-enables-us-to-reduce-costs/ Fri, 10 Jul 2020 09:58:45 +0000 http://surprise.blackblogs.org/?p=158 To keep prices low: Our market power enables us to reduce costs, such as taxes, payments to publishers and authors and by cutting back on occupational safety. 
On the basis of collected data and immense investments, we are striving for a monopoly position in more and more business areas in order to become even cheaper. Although retail suffers as a result of online trading and our optimized and global logistics chains, low wage policy and tax avoidance, who wants direct contact with people anyway? Thanks to our size, we can afford to be so customer-friendly that returns are always accepted and are often just dumped on the trash (https://retourensohn.de/).
Besides, we’re creating jobs! Because the wages we pay are too low and we restrict labour rights as much as possible, we create jobs and keep the prices low for you. This is also ensured by extremely underpaid drivers from Germany’s neighboring countries, who are paid so little that they often have to sleep in their vans, but deliver on time!
]]> 5. Correct! We know how maximum exploitation works https://surprise.blackblogs.org/en/2020/07/09/5-correct-we-know-how-maximum-exploitation-works/ Thu, 09 Jul 2020 10:13:08 +0000 http://surprise.blackblogs.org/?p=166 We know how maximum exploitation works. In our Amazon warehouses, a system of surveillance, control and harassment ensures psychological and physical attacks and maximum efficiency, as well as competition between workers. A wristband that controls every movement, scoring points and a 2-minute toilet break per day are constant companions for the workers. In this way we guarantee motivated and conscientious working structures.
At “Amazon Mechanical Turk”, work contracts are globally advertised and assigned as precariously as possible. The workers are not permanently employed, without social security and in direct global competition for the lowest wages. This is just one of the ways we and other platforms are leveraging workers’ rights to provide you with the best service and us with the highest possible profit. Nevertheless, there are always annoying strikes and labor disputes, which we try to avert with all possible means. Unfortunately we are still dependent on erroneous and thinking people, but we are working on a constant automation to eliminate these errors as well. (Find more info here: https://makeamazonpay.org/en/
]]> 10. Correct! He was able to increase his wealth by $30 billion https://surprise.blackblogs.org/en/2020/07/04/10-correct-he-was-able-to-increase-his-wealth-by-30-billion/ Sat, 04 Jul 2020 09:17:46 +0000 http://surprise.blackblogs.org/?p=219 Even before the pandemic, Jeff Bezos was incredibly rich. During the pandemic, he was able to increase his wealth by $30 billion. 13 billion in April alone. His wealth increased by 20% in the first 4 months of this year. He is the richest person in the world. Not only does he have great power economically, he also influences politics and media. For example, he owns the Washington Post newspaper. Kings in former times subjugated and tormented their subordinates, the rulers of today allow for some comfort and practicality! Become a Prime customer!
 
Amazon & Corona
Due to the pandemic, many people have retreated into their apartments and houses in recent months (if they are so privileged to have their own housing). In order to avoid contact with other people and thus further reduce the risk of infection with the virus, many people are now increasingly shopping online. Even people who previously did not buy online at all have now started to do so. We have benefited greatly from this. And those who were locked up at home for months had to do something there, like watch a lot more Netflix. Netflix runs on Amazon’s web servers AWS (Amazon Web Services). As a result, Amazon has grown enormously in several business areas and Jeff Bezos is one of the biggest winners of the pandemic. However, in order to be able to continue to offer our services in the same way, we don’t have that much left for the workers who are on the other side of this development. Even before the pandemic they were slaving hard in the warehouses for you and unfortunately we can’t meet the hygienic requirements either. But we thank them for their commitment!
 
 
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