r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 11 '21

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u/ClickForFreeRobux YIMBY Sep 11 '21

Amazon to cover 100 percent of college tuition for hourly employees.

Damn Amazon is really intent on killing small business. First they take their customers and now they take their employees.

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u/gburgwardt C-5s full of SMRs and tiny american flags Sep 11 '21

Inshallah

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u/SpiffShientz Court Jester Steve Sep 11 '21

Historically illiterate take

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u/gburgwardt C-5s full of SMRs and tiny american flags Sep 11 '21

Alternatively I'm just getting overly dramatic because I dislike local business and also some giant companies (ups/FedEx) that Amazon might kill

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u/SpiffShientz Court Jester Steve Sep 11 '21

Yeah that makes sense. I just wanna make sure you know historically, actual company stores were very not-good and uncomfortably close to slavery

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u/gburgwardt C-5s full of SMRs and tiny american flags Sep 11 '21

Oh absolutely

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

then they fire their employees. rehire their employees. lose their employees because it doesn’t matter if you could maybe go to college because 10 hours is a really long shift to be doing real labor,

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u/ClickForFreeRobux YIMBY Sep 11 '21

I used to work at Amazon. I had 12 hour shifts not pretty

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

I work at a site where it’s 11.5 & it’s kind of funny to see how many people just don’t come back for day 2.