An open letter to Jeff Bezos: A contract worker’s take on Amazon.com
Ama-Mart<p>Wal-zon<p>Take your pick.<p>I don't care whether you are "online" or off.  Treat your workers like shit  -- yes, <i>your</i> workers, you wankers; I don't care what shell employment manoeuvring you use -- and run a business model that takes advantage of, if it's not outright predicated upon, the public dole, and I will be disinclined to send <i>my</i> business your way.<p>Other readers here: If you don't like it, vote with your dollars (or whatever currency).  It's the only way, in today's world.<p>And name them for what they are.  They hate the bad publicity.<p>HN relevance:  Being a "tech" company does <i>not</i> absolve you of being a good citizen.  Some "tech" advocates are sounding far too much like Wall Street bankers, these days.<p>----<p>P.S.  Good grief -- a bit of upvote.  Karma negating though it may prove to be (feh), I'll add that while authoring my original comment I was thinking more of the now much reported warehouse staffing situation than of the OP's situation.  ALTHOUGH... I, too, have experienced the "blessed" "management" employee phenomenon -- more than once, when I stop to think about it.<p>Once even personally, where a VP's... "pet" was moved into a role that I was in line for.  They received some months of half-day or more one-on-one training from a senior supervisor.  They never really got the hand of the role, especially the technical details; nonetheless, it was enough of a resume builder for them to shortly thereupon move on to "bigger and better" "management" things.<p>Whereupon, they belatedly put me into the role.  Which I then did from day one, with effectively zero additional training.  Oh, and while holding down my old job -- and at times, repeatedly, also portions of the job I'd left before <i>that</i>, which they continued to underhire for and so continued to fail to fill successfully.<p>"Management".  The best management I've seen worked up to the role.  "Formal" credentials are to me not outright anathema, but definitely a caution.