Interesting. I’m in Bristol and have always received my parcels from their Avonmouth delivery centre.
Today it came from Swindon instead. That seems like a long route for the delivery drivers.
this bougie spite is why i hate the guardian.
working class people are getting jobs that pay them enough to live on and they winge because their pet bistro might feel “the strain” of having to pay people a living wage, or their posho M&S might have to respect its staff, instead of keeping them on agency jobs they can be sacked from at a moments notice.
If Amazon is a better employer than so much of a town then shitty pay/conditions is a widespread problem. As we knew.
Regardless of who the comapny is … how is “company creates jobs” being spun as a bad thing? If people would rather work here than be forced into care work, where it is tough, thankless, and underpaid, that not the companies fault.
There’s a supply and demand issue in the job market at the moment, in that there are more jobs than people so we have a bit of power as employees for the first time in ages.
That is at no point the fault of the companies creating jobs.
It may well be the fault of the companies not paying sufficiently well enough to employee the people it needs mind.
> When Amazon came to town: Swindon feels strain as new depot sucks up jobs
Well this sounds serious. Somehow Amazon is reducing the amount of jobs in Swindon! I had better find out more about this.
> The new depot has created its own gravitational force sucking staff away from other businesses such as care homes.
Otherwise known creating jobs that people prefer…
> The vast site is a stark reminder of Amazon’s might. As well as upending consumer habits and standing accused of gaining an unfair advantage by paying too little in tax and hollowing out high streets, the company is creating huge distortions in the jobs market. The new depot has created its own gravitational force sucking staff away from other businesses such as care homes.
> The latest outpost of Jeff Bezos’s empire also illustrates the shifting economic sands in the western world. In July, the nearby Honda car factory closed – a decision blamed partly on Brexit – with the loss of about 3,000 direct jobs plus thousands more in the supply chain, many of which were high-paying, skilled roles.
So they’ve swapped some of the best qualified and paid jobs in manufacturing for warehouse work…
The Guardian complaining about the plebs getting paid too much. Losing their supply of cheap labour to wipe old Tories’ arses.
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Interesting. I’m in Bristol and have always received my parcels from their Avonmouth delivery centre.
Today it came from Swindon instead. That seems like a long route for the delivery drivers.
this bougie spite is why i hate the guardian.
working class people are getting jobs that pay them enough to live on and they winge because their pet bistro might feel “the strain” of having to pay people a living wage, or their posho M&S might have to respect its staff, instead of keeping them on agency jobs they can be sacked from at a moments notice.
If Amazon is a better employer than so much of a town then shitty pay/conditions is a widespread problem. As we knew.
Regardless of who the comapny is … how is “company creates jobs” being spun as a bad thing? If people would rather work here than be forced into care work, where it is tough, thankless, and underpaid, that not the companies fault.
There’s a supply and demand issue in the job market at the moment, in that there are more jobs than people so we have a bit of power as employees for the first time in ages.
That is at no point the fault of the companies creating jobs.
It may well be the fault of the companies not paying sufficiently well enough to employee the people it needs mind.
> When Amazon came to town: Swindon feels strain as new depot sucks up jobs
Well this sounds serious. Somehow Amazon is reducing the amount of jobs in Swindon! I had better find out more about this.
> The new depot has created its own gravitational force sucking staff away from other businesses such as care homes.
Otherwise known creating jobs that people prefer…
> The vast site is a stark reminder of Amazon’s might. As well as upending consumer habits and standing accused of gaining an unfair advantage by paying too little in tax and hollowing out high streets, the company is creating huge distortions in the jobs market. The new depot has created its own gravitational force sucking staff away from other businesses such as care homes.
> The latest outpost of Jeff Bezos’s empire also illustrates the shifting economic sands in the western world. In July, the nearby Honda car factory closed – a decision blamed partly on Brexit – with the loss of about 3,000 direct jobs plus thousands more in the supply chain, many of which were high-paying, skilled roles.
So they’ve swapped some of the best qualified and paid jobs in manufacturing for warehouse work…
The Guardian complaining about the plebs getting paid too much. Losing their supply of cheap labour to wipe old Tories’ arses.