Raw LLM Responses

As someone who has some insight into this, I would have to disagree. Vince Dhilan Dulay, Amazon has no minimum wage employees. All employees make at LEAST 15 an hour and they are about to get a substantial raise. They have excellent insurance (there are many employees that are semi-retired and only working for benefits because they cannot afford to self-insure. Education benefits are excellent even for tier ones. I DO agree they need to have better profit sharing. They used to give free stock and they should, again. When an employee is a part owner, they better see the benefits of frugality, industriousness and creative ingenuity. Just like with fast food, the general public ASSUMES that if total sales are high, that means that the entry level employee should be paid as a percentage of total sales. In fast food, most are owned by franchisees, NOT by the company. Likewise, almost half of Amazons sales are by third party vendors. Often times small startup companies and ma and pa local companies that simply use Amazon's infrastructure so they can grow and thrive because it would be to difficult and expensive to do themselves. Total profits also are affected by the cost of operating and Amazon's investments in building out fulfillment centers, corporate infrastructure, and research and development are huge. Real estate alone and the costs of machinery computers, communications, monitors, electricity and air conditioning, and AI is staggering. Many fulfillment centers are almost a mile long and three or four stories high with more than 25 miles with of conveyance. And of course they have 4/5 of a million employees all getting pay, vacation, insurance, retirement, etc Linden There absolutely ARE challenging departments, but for the MOST part rates are fair. In some departments such as "stow" the rates are ridiculously easy low (easy). And as with most companies worldwide in a wide number of industries, everything depends on the front line, low level supervisor as to how the tier one employee is treated. I think that almost everyone would admit there ARE some are needlessly "attentive", but the vast majority are unbelievably permissive, especially if the tier one is young and attractive. I have direct knowledge that some employees clock in an go to the break room and go to sleep or clock in and spend cumulatively 6-8 hours watching movies out of a 10 hour day (they work 4x10's not 5x8's). I DO believe rates should be adjusted both up AND down depending on the department and depending on the size and weight of the item. In pack, there are employees that cherry pick only the totes with single smalls (and their statistics show that they do upwards of 88% smalls) and they force their co-workers to take the large and heavy boxes. This gives them plenty of time to chit-chat, wander, watch videos on their phone, or play video games on their phone. Again, this is an issue that low level supervision allows. Mid level management or above mostly just see the total numbers and of course when the do walk the floor, the lazy people act busy. There is a middle ground, a fair middle ground between enabling laziness and enabling cheating and "being mean to the employees". I would have to agree that because of the "cheaters" the good, honest, and industrious employees get unfairly blamed. And that probably should be fixed. And the fault lies in low level supervision, not with corporate, not with upper site level management.