Why I’m finally going to boycott Amazon

[Teddy B 17,251]

if i boycot amazon, who is going to deliver my discounted brand name toilet paper automatically on the 15th?

I can drop off your tp when I swing by for my sammich!

[decocker 7,198]

I can drop off your tp when I swing by for my sammich!

sweet. i'll send you my subscribe and save list in a pm, just pick it all up at once.

(you better honor my 15% discount)

[Teddy B 17,251]

sweet. i'll send you my subscribe and save list in a pm, just pick it all up at once.

(you better honor my 15% discount)

Hey waitaminnit, I said tp, nothing else!

I'll honor the discount if you put extra mayo on the sammich.

[decocker 7,198]

Hey waitaminnit, I said tp, nothing else!

I'll honor the discount if you put extra mayo on the sammich.

but, papertowels are imperative!

i don't see why the extra mayo should be my effort.

[Teddy B 17,251]

but, papertowels are imperative!

i don't see why the extra mayo should be my effort.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

There is a guy who worked for me for many years (still works for the company). At the time he was mid-30's and morbidly obese (under 6 feet tall and over 300 lbs.) I was trying to fill a position that required what I consider to be a fair amount of international, long distance travel. He was more than qualified for this promotion that would have increased his pay 10 to 12 %. I took him on several trips with me to introduce him to the client base and found that the travel aspect was physically too much for him and it was because he was fat and eventually I did not promote him. I ended up giving the job to a less experienced and probably less qualified person who was fit.

Is this discrimination?

I like the guy, he's smart and funny and very capable but he couldn't perform the task I needed him to because of his weight. If a person has a condition that prevents them from doing their job should the company just carry them for an undetermined amount of time? Once you have made all the accommodations you can make who decides when is enough, enough.

I had an employee who sustained a back injury during a vacation and could no longer work on her feet so at considerable expense we modified her work station so she could sit. Eventually her condition worsened so we modified her schedule so she could take more frequent breaks by having her supervisor sit at her work station while she went out and smoked. Eventually we created an administrative position because it got to be too much for her on the production floor. She was eventually fired for missing too much work. EEOC claim submitted, settled for a few hundred dollars, makes us look like a bad company.

Everyone discriminates. If we didn't, brand advertising wouldn't work.

There is a distinction between not hiring/promoting someone because their weight means they can't do the job, rather than simply because the hiring manager doesn't like fat people.

[Rob L 3,811]

Yes and no, we didn't have an HR department as we were only about 120 people worldwide (plenty big enough to have someone dedicated to the job in my opinion). I was the Director of Operations and ended up handling the lions share of the HR #######. It was a problem because often times I was too close to the situation.

I was paid well enough; for a while. I resigned last year after almost 18 years and sold my equity. Yes it was a tough job.

People in general are evil I think, so are cats.

this was an hooooouge open liability for your board

[X Factor 1,110]

Can't live without shopping on Amazon from pool supplies to anything else. No boycott here

[spookyturtle 9,465]

Can't live without shopping on Amazon from pool supplies to anything else. No boycott here

If Amazon went under, what would you do? Stop living and play the post count game?

[X Factor 1,110]

If Amazon went under hopefully I would short the stock or buy some put options making some serious dough.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

This is actually similar to buying clothing made in an Asian sweatshop. People don't care about how their goods arrive at their door so long as they are cheap and really available.

[Jacque67 7,328]

This is actually similar to buying clothing made in an Asian sweatshop. People don't care about how their goods arrive at their door so long as they are cheap and really available.

Are you really just talking clothes???

[Not a Tailor 1,370]

This is actually similar to buying clothing made in an Asian sweatshop. People don't care about how their goods arrive at their door so long as they are cheap and really available.

Here's the thing: When wages are low, people don't have much choice.

My wife and I care very deeply, but also a) need enough clothes that we can get through a work week or two without stinking in the Texas heat and b) don't have much money since we're both at entering points into careers.

This means that I can't afford 40-50 dollars for a t-shirt. I can't afford NOT to get the best possible price for things. I hate Amazon. We boycotted it for almost two years at one point, but, because science and her lab are underfunded, she had no choice but to start using it again and then with the immigration costs, we don't have the money, even with two incomes, to furnish our house, keep clothes on our backs, eat, pay rent, pay for our car and have anything left over if we don't literally buy the cheapest option for everything.

It sucks. A lot. But I can't afford, for example, 15 dollars in a store for a cell phone charger when I can get it for a dollar on Amazon. The other 14 dollars could buy food, buy almost a full tank of gas...

Sweatshop labour (including Amazon) happens when sweatshop wages are being paid worldwide. And the entry level wages are insufficient.

[Rob L 3,811]

Here's the thing: When wages are low, people don't have much choice.

My wife and I care very deeply, but also a) need enough clothes that we can get through a work week or two without stinking in the Texas heat and b) don't have much money since we're both at entering points into careers.

This means that I can't afford 40-50 dollars for a t-shirt. I can't afford NOT to get the best possible price for things. I hate Amazon. We boycotted it for almost two years at one point, but, because science and her lab are underfunded, she had no choice but to start using it again and then with the immigration costs, we don't have the money, even with two incomes, to furnish our house, keep clothes on our backs, eat, pay rent, pay for our car and have anything left over if we don't literally buy the cheapest option for everything.

It sucks. A lot. But I can't afford, for example, 15 dollars in a store for a cell phone charger when I can get it for a dollar on Amazon. The other 14 dollars could buy food, buy almost a full tank of gas...

Sweatshop labour (including Amazon) happens when sweatshop wages are being paid worldwide. And the entry level wages are insufficient.

Now I am seriously depressed...

BUT I do not think this is about low wages( I cannot speak to folks working in warehouses for Amazon), at least for the information workers who are flooding the south lake union area of Seattle into another office building that is thrown up it seems like daily.

Most of those folks have choices, another gig at Microsoft, Facebook and Google are here, T-Mobile, Boeing...a lot of choices. The top dollar may go to Amazon, but at the end of your soul sucking tour where you were encouraged stomp on others and get ahead at any cost, sooner or later your Northstar will kick in and you will ( I hope ) let your value system guide you to work with better meaning and dignity.

At least in the early days of Microsoft they had a mission,...a computer on every desktop...what is the guiding vision for Amazon? To dominate and drive the last bit of profit out of every market they touch? sooner or later every organism gets tired under stress. When Amazon was taking off, I was already old enough to say " I am to old for that sheit"

[Rob L 3,811]

Are you really just talking clothes???

Dude On Amazon...there is soooo much more