2019年7月14日
Amazon's highly paid tech workers say warehouse worker conditions are 'a source of shame'
A group of Amazon’s tech workers are openly supporting the planned strike by Amazon warehouse workers in Shakopee, Minnesota, next week during the online retailer’s Prime Day shopping event. Others are publicly sharing letters and words of encourage to the strikers via Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, with multiple employees saying they are ashamed of the treatment of the fulfillment center workers.
“All Amazon employees should be proud to call themselves such. It is shameful that while Amazon chooses to be the industry leader in so many aspects of their employment policies, and yet continues to allow other aspects of their policies to be worthy of being called ‘inhumane,'” another anonymous employee wrote in the blog post.
They want Amazon to stop using fossil fuels in its operations entirely and become a zero-emissions company in a timeline dictated by science. Amazon does have numerous green initiatives, such as building its own solar and wind farms. It has also promised to eventually use 100% renewable energy for its global infrastructure, but it has been vague as to the timeline. Prime Day, the retailer’s annual shopping event, is coming next week. While Amazon customers are anticipating the bargains, these Minnesota workers are using the spotlight to push for better conditions.
They want higher pay, more reasonable workloads, and better opportunities for advancement. The company recently endured another round of criticism when John Oliver, the host of the HBO show “Last Week Tonight,” showcased the warehouse situation. His segment featured employees talking about how hard Amazon pushes them, their inability to take bathroom breaks, and showed Amazon’s anti-union training video. One anonymous Amazon tech worker said in the blog post: “You guys are the lifeblood of Amazon! Keep raising the bar and insisting on the highest working standards! You have the support of Seattle!”
40,000 people lost power in New York City power outage that knocked out train stations, elevators, and traffic lights
A massive power outage struck uptown Manhattan Saturday evening, leaving some stranded in elevators, without traffic lights, and facing massive train delays. Frank Gibbon, a spokesperson for the New York City Fire Department, said the department was responding to numerous reports of stuck elevators and subway stations without power in a 20-block radius and a transformer fire at West 54th St. and West End Avenue.
WABC-7 reported that NYPD is directing traffic manually at intersections with dark traffic lights. Those in the city’s Midtown and Upper West Side neighbourhoods posted on social media that massive crowds had formed on the streets as Lincoln Center was evacuated. Power outages in the neighbourhood’s train stations forced people to the streets to trek out of the affected areas.
The biggest money mistake I thought I'd ever make didn't turn out to be a mistake at all
Hi, it’s me. Teen Caroline.I did go to a major state school and I did graduate with an engineering degree, and I had landed that engineering job that I’d planned to get. It was all working out. I made what I considered (and what was generally considered) to be a huge, quarter-life-crisis level mistake. Financially, it was unstable. Culturally, it was unacceptable, but personally, it was so necessary.
But the No. 1 mistake I see people make when they get a glimpse of my life is to assume that it was an easy switch, and that it all happened overnight. Not in the least; in fact, I had to take on quite a bit of debt to sustain the idea that I could eventually sustain myself. Now, several years later I have an MBA (the MBA was my insurance policy in case my freelance career didn’t work out) and I’ve found a way to sustain myself fully on freelance work.
My decision to start freelancing began with my love for travel and my aptitude for writing (and a really bad breakup), but perhaps more importantly, it has a lot to do with my travel-hacking prowess. Once I began to understand how to leverage my debt and liabilities in a way that would eventually benefit me, I started stockpiling points and miles currencies and earning in every way I could. That meant paying attention to bonus points categories, learning how to pay bills with credit cards (and paying them off as soon as possible), and leveraging my bigger bills to meet minimum spending requirements for huge sign-up bonuses. Reading the fine print and squeezing the most out of the benefits is the most important thing to do when opening a new rewards card.
With freelance writing, it’s unlikely that I’ll lose my entire client base at once if something happens. This means that I’m always stockpiled with work in one way or another, and things have leveled out over the past couple of years into a sustainable routine.
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