Editorials & Other Articles

IamK

(956 posts)

36. no it's people leaving places like this that prevent sweat shops from making money..

Reply to Javaman (Reply #33)

Tue Feb 28, 2012, 05:11 PM

Feb 2012

Edit history

Please sign in to view edit histories.

49 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave [View all] xchrom Feb 2012 OP

just quit a job kinda like that. on assembly line. lately they started using a timer that went off KG Feb 2012 #1

I hope that you move on to much better things soon (if you haven't already), KG. What a nightmare! tropicanarose Feb 2012 #31

Kind of sounds like descriptions of third-world sweat shops. KansDem Feb 2012 #2

Jesus fucking Christ! It's Upton Sinclair's Jungle all over again. OffWithTheirHeads Feb 2012 #3

That sounds familiar. Lugnut Feb 2012 #4

Think about this the next time you order from Amazon. TreasonousBastard Feb 2012 #5

+1 xchrom Feb 2012 #6

+2 Auggie Feb 2012 #10

wow.....hard to believe that this is the way things are. tropicanarose Feb 2012 #29

The Atlantic is also covering this story (with a fitting title). Dawson Leery Feb 2012 #7

This American Warehouse Sounds as Bad as Foxconn xchrom Feb 2012 #8

i worked at a place like this. madrchsod Feb 2012 #9

My son said he'd rather be homeless than work there steve2470 Feb 2012 #11

Reads precisely like my experience working for a major delivery service, loading trucks, several patrice Feb 2012 #12

+1 xchrom Feb 2012 #13

A must-read Sienna86 Feb 2012 #14

Both... & more I suspect. Nt xchrom Feb 2012 #15

They don't call them lumpers, yortsed snacilbuper Feb 2012 #16

JESUS H CHRIST. EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS lifesbeautifulmagic Feb 2012 #17

And Amazon, formerly fighting sales tax on out-of-state shipments, will now profit from them: Auggie Feb 2012 #18

Jesus. Canuckistanian Feb 2012 #19

I was gonna post that too Viva_La_Revolution Feb 2012 #32

I worked for a temp agency a few years ago Canuckistanian Feb 2012 #47

It also sounds like what I went through at call centers. MarianJack Feb 2012 #20

Most jobs suck, thats why they pay you to come to work..... IamK Feb 2012 #21

sorry...most jobs may be unpleasant ... but they don't abuse you like that. nt xchrom Feb 2012 #22

Wchrom, you are right. Yeah, it is work and they have to pay you to do it, but this is abuse rop tropicanarose Feb 2012 #30

so this kind of treatment of human beings is OK? rurallib Feb 2012 #23

Its a job, its not prison. If you don't like it, leave. IamK Feb 2012 #24

... xchrom Feb 2012 #25

If you don't like it, leave Duer 157099 Feb 2012 #26

truly, unbelievable. Javaman Feb 2012 #33

no it's people leaving places like this that prevent sweat shops from making money.. IamK Feb 2012 #36

what bullshit. if you're in a job like that to begin with -- you probably don't have the money in xchrom Feb 2012 #37

maybe... or your just too lazt to look... could be either... IamK Feb 2012 #38

Too lazy to look ? steve2470 Feb 2012 #40

there it is -- i was waiting for it xchrom Feb 2012 #41

Oh I see, you are a member of the Horatio Alger fan club. Javaman Feb 2012 #48

I've worked in places like that steve2470 Feb 2012 #34

my favorite Che Quotes... IamK Feb 2012 #39

You obviously have no idea what Che stood for steve2470 Feb 2012 #42

your favorite must be 'corporate ass-licker'. --nt xchrom Feb 2012 #43

Sock puppet patrick t. cakes Feb 2012 #45

+1 nt Javaman Feb 2012 #49

Don't end up like Brian. Bertha Venation Feb 2012 #27

stunning, right? nt xchrom Feb 2012 #28

My job has goals like this rosesaylavee Feb 2012 #35

It is really hard to tell the US from a 3rd world country at this point Doctor_J Feb 2012 #44

This is why I keep advocating for mental health evaluations, starting with HR and middle managers Mopar151 Feb 2012 #46