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health insurance, disability insurance, retirement savings plans and company stock. The company also offers up to 20 weeks of paid leave and innovative benefits such as Leave Share and Ramp Back, which give new parents flexibility with their growing families. Leave Share lets employees share their Amazon paid leave with their spouse or domestic partner if their spouse's employer doesn't offer paid leave. Ramp Back gives new moms additional control over the pace at which they return to work. Just as with Amazon's health care plan, these benefits are egalitarian - they're the same for fulfillment center and customer service employees as they are for Amazon's most senior executives.

"Part-time employees who work more than 20 hours per week receive benefits, including life and disability insurance, dental and vision insurance with premiums paid in full by Amazon, and funding towards medical insurance.

"Both full-time and part-time hourly employees are eligible for Amazon's innovative Career Choice program that pre-pays 95 percent of tuition for courses related to in-demand fields, regardless of whether the skills are relevant to a future career at Amazon. The company has built dedicated Career Choice classrooms at more than 25 fulfillment centers to make it easier for employees to go back to school by offering classes onsite."

earthling wrote:Those working the warehouses are of course using the term 'relative' to other warehouses, but obviously it's not comparable and is clearly hyperbole. Some will find it insensitive, others don't mean it literally.

Whatever appropriate term... The 'culture of fear for your job' seems to differentiate Amazon from other warehouses, and it appears to be percolating in Whole Foods too since acquired by AMZ.

brewcrew1000 wrote:Wow, its funny how at one time Walmart was labeled the bad guys. Walmart pays fairly well if you work your way up, Store Managers can make 80-120k a year but they can also bonus up to 100k a year. Even the middle managements can average a salary of 45-75k and bonus 1-20k.

Walmart really wasn't even that bad of a company until after Sam Walton. I think at one time stores were closed Sunday and the company had fairly humble roots.

earthling wrote:An 'activist shopper' I'm not and use many of the Amazon Prime services but now reluctant to renew given the 'fear culture' stories increasing. Thought at first some workers may be overstating the culture but then similar stories appearing with Whole Foods too. If AMZ recognizes this and makes changes, I'll stick with them. Is not hard to find controversial issues with other large companies... Apple had the factory suicide issues, Google has its questionable practices too. As long as they recognize and address their issues. So far AMZ doesn't show signs of it.

brewcrew1000 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 06, 2018 11:05 am Man, Long Island City is booming right now - The amount of development over the last 10 years in LIC has been insane

earthling wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 10:50 am Is understandable though. In tight white collar labor market makes sense to divide between two metros. It doesn't sound like they planned this the whole time and later realized it would be hard to hire that many in one market. End result being regional offices rather than second HQ.

But overall, Amazon is becoming another Walmart if not worse, creating a fear culture work environment.