BBC Panorama Docco on Working at Amazon

[Zingari]

Agree, but you don't get supposedly reputable BBC documentaries saying those things, do you? While clearly we do get supposedly reputable BBC documentaries devaluing the idea of hard work and vilifying the success of businesses. Based on that I'd say we're swinging too far in the other direction.

Yes there might be some truth in that 

Vigilance is the  burden of our democratic society , and we need to be constantly reminded of that 

I've finished my daily quota of fine claret now, so  good night    

[The Horse's Mouth]

Ofcourse it's a shit job, it's a job in a warehouse for Amazon. What do you expect?

[Adster]

What just about the say what The Horses Mouth said. Some of the rules are terrible but all in all it's a standard warehouse job you can acquire through an agency with little or no qualifications.

 

The points thing in my opinion is ridiculous as some of the time you can help being ill. So going by the video if you're ill three days in a row you get fired? Joke if true

[Rincewind]

Reasons you can be dismissed

 

working shift hours

[The People's Hero]

I would guess that most people with actual skills aren't working for amazon? Should have worked harder at school?

[Webbo]

Why are the countries with supposedly so many hard working people still in the shit and are the poorest ?

40 years of fairness and equality under communism.

[ADK]

I would guess that most people with actual skills aren't working for amazon? Should have worked harder at school?

 

 

Not everyone is gifted with intelligence.

[leicsmac]

40 years of fairness and equality under communism.

I wasn't aware that pretty much the entirety of Africa had been under communist government for 40 years. Nor that most of Scandinavia and Canada had been entirely capitalist and free market for the 40 years too.

;-)

[Zingari]

40 years of fairness and equality under communism.

we've taken poorer people with years of fairness and equality  from our own "commonwealth" too. 

[Rincewind]

 of low intellegence do them

I would guess that most people with actual skills aren't working for amazon? Should have worked harder at school?

Students do these kind of jobs to pay towards their fees. Are they unintellegent?

People made redundant and unable to find work in their field of expertise do this kind of work rather than claim JSA. Are they unintellegent?

 

There are many people of various interlects doing menial low paid work for many reasons. It is generalisation and unfair to assume only people of low intellegence do this kind of work. Because of the current job market and low production industry a lot of workers have little choice as to what job they do.

[Dr The Singh]

The immigrants who would do this job would never complain, infact ask for overtime at normal rate!!!!!

[Parafox]

The last time someone called me an idiot for no reason I got banned, so I think I'll leave this angry little man alone

 

 

It wasn't for "no reason".

 

And why would someone calling you an idiot get you banned.

 

Maybe it was something in your response?

[Webbo]

I wasn't aware that pretty much the entirety of Africa had been under communist government for 40 years. Nor that most of Scandinavia and Canada had been entirely capitalist and free market for the 40 years too.

;-)

 

 

we've taken poorer people with years of fairness and equality  from our own "commonwealth" too. 

I thought we were talking about Romanians?

[Zingari]

I thought we were talking about Romanians?

We were , but you seemed to imply that Romania was poor because of communism and workers came here to escape the years of poor government that had led to this situation.  But i was just pointing that other countries were poor too that weren't communist and workers from those countries wanted to come here too.

But i think we've wandered off at a tangent   

[Guest]

All I can offer is when I briefly glanced up at the News Channel report on it last night, the shot of someone carrying the scanner down an aisle of stock made me think how long it'd been since I'd watched Ghostbusters

[DANGEROUS TIGER]

They have employed 15,000 temporary workers for Xmas, and want to retain 2,500 of them afterwards. This is probably why they have set tough targets, looking at those with a good record. 

 

I worked in a photographic paper mill for nineteen years doing continuous rotating shifts, The work was bloody hot, very physical, and soul destroying.  Joining the police afterwards was a piece of cake by comparison

 

 In this day and age you get  "owt for nowt". Amazon workers please note.

[The Year Of The Fox]

I'm actually an eccentric millionaire, I go painting and decorating every day as a hobby.

Community service more like

[Trav Le Bleu]

so they are poor countries because they have to work for their money and not having a  welfare state has kept them poor   ? 

i didn't say they were , i was responding to a post implying they were  

 

I do believe that was what the man said.

[Zingari]

Amazon, the world's largest online retailer, is testing unmanned drones to deliver goods to customers, Chief Executive Jeff Bezos says.

The drones, called Octocopters, could deliver packages weighing up to 2.3kg to customers within 30 minutes of them placing the order, he said.

However, he added that it could take up to five years for the service to start.

The US Federal Aviation Administration is yet to approve the use of unmanned drones for civilian purposes.

"I know this looks like science fiction, but it's not," Mr Bezos told CBS television's 60 Minutes programme.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25180906

[The God Emperor]

 

Amazon, the world's largest online retailer, is testing unmanned drones to deliver goods to customers, Chief Executive Jeff Bezos says.

The drones, called Octocopters, could deliver packages weighing up to 2.3kg to customers within 30 minutes of them placing the order, he said.

However, he added that it could take up to five years for the service to start.

The US Federal Aviation Administration is yet to approve the use of unmanned drones for civilian purposes.

"I know this looks like science fiction, but it's not," Mr Bezos told CBS television's 60 Minutes programme.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25180906

 

that sounds awesome! 

[Zingari]

that sounds awesome! 

yes it does until i got to this bit ;

 

"The UAVs do not currently have the awareness of their environment to be able to avoid flying into people. .

[The God Emperor]

yes it does until i got to this bit ;

 

"The UAVs do not currently have the awareness of their environment to be able to avoid flying into people. .

pfft as long as I get my blu-ray of the wrath of khan within the hour I dont care if some peasant gets mangled by a drone 

[Zingari]

pfft as long as I get my blu-ray of the wrath of khan within the hour I dont care if some peasant gets mangled by a drone 

Yes , people should learn to be less selfish 

[Danizen]

pfft as long as I get my blu-ray of the wrath of khan within the hour I dont care if some peasant gets mangled by a drone

I'd take a knock on the head from one of these drones if I get a free Star Trek Blu-Ray out of it.

[Zingari]

I'd take a knock on the head from one of these drones if I get a free Star Trek Blu-Ray out of it.

you'd probably be seeing stars for a few days anyway