Amazon screws the workers again.

[jaF0]

Amazon is more than doubling its maximum base salary to $350,000, leaked memo shows

Business Insider|1 day ago

Amazon has increased its base salary cap to $350,000, Insider has learned. The previous salary cap was $160,000 for most roles. The increase comes as Amazon faces internal angst over low pay, especially compared to rivals. Amazon employee angst over low ...


https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-increases-base-salary-cap-350000-memo-2022-2

How about increasing the pay of those that male it all possible?

 

[GothTalk]

Amazon is more than doubling its maximum base salary to $350,000, leaked memo shows

Business Insider|1 day ago

Amazon has increased its base salary cap to $350,000, Insider has learned. The previous salary cap was $160,000 for most roles. The increase comes as Amazon faces internal angst over low pay, especially compared to rivals. Amazon employee angst over low ...


https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-increases-base-salary-cap-350000-memo-2022-2

How about increasing the pay of those that male it all possible?

They are.... up to 350,000/yr.

 

[pecksniff]

They are.... up to 350,000/yr.

"Up to" includes "nothing."

 

[GothTalk]

"Up to" includes "nothing."

Nothing is guaranteed and not all people are worth the extra.

Equity of economic life outcomes isn't the objective of doing business.

 

[pecksniff]

Nothing is guaranteed and not all people are worth the extra.

Equity of economic life outcomes isn't the objective of doing business.

The point is that this is a pervasive problem in American industry. All the benefit of a company's growth goes to the highest executives -- who are certainly not worth a thousand or even a hundred times more than the warehouse workers, in their contributions.

 

[Cubantripod]

The point is that this is a pervasive problem in American industry. All the benefit of a company's growth goes to the highest executives -- who are certainly not worth a thousand or even a hundred times more than the warehouse workers, in their contributions.

When you are general labor, you are pretty replaceable. That's why you can't command a higher salary.

 

[pecksniff]

When you are general labor, you are pretty replaceable. That's why you can't command a higher salary.

MBAs are ten for a nickel.

 

[GothTalk]

The point is that this is a pervasive problem in American industry.

Yea, it's called government fuck fuck games.

All the benefit of a company's growth goes to the highest executives --

Nope. Employment is not slavery.

who are certainly not worth a thousand or even a hundred times more than the warehouse workers, in their contributions.

Says who??

MBAs are ten for a nickel.

But actual management skill is not.

 

[pecksniff]

Yea, it's called government fuck fuck games.

Government does not set the compensation levels, beyond a minimum-wage floor.

 

[pecksniff]

Says who??

Says anybody reasonable.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Employment is not slavery.

...sayeth the welfare queen who avoids employment like the plague.

 

[pecksniff]

Nope. Employment is not slavery.

How is that relevant to the allocation of compensation?

 

[GothTalk]

Government does not set the compensation levels, beyond a minimum-wage floor.

As I said.

Says anybody reasonable.

More subjective bullshit.

Which is all your comment was to begin with.

The employees, employers, investors and customers all say you're full of fucking shit.

...sayeth the welfare queen who avoids employment like the plague.

Never applied for nor received a penny of welfare.

And no shit, I can make my own money, why the fuck would I want to work for someone else??

How is that relevant to the allocation of compensation?

You said...

All the benefit of a company's growth goes to the highest executives

That's a direct implication that only management gets paid, that would make the worker bees all slaves.

That is a false narrative. They all get paid.

 

[pecksniff]

You said all compensation goes up

No, I said it doesn't. Only the executive compensation goes up.

 

[pecksniff]

As I said.

Then where do government fuck fuck games come into it?

 

[GothTalk]

No, I said it doesn't. Only the executive compensation goes up.

Ok.....in that case, so what??

That's a problem between management and the executives.

Then where do government fuck fuck games come into it?

You stated where, minimum wage.

 

[Champakian]

...

How about increasing the pay of those that male it all possible?

They are.... up to 350,000/yr.

He doesn't get it.

He thinks that one day, a bunch of people just got together and started working
in perfect harmony and then after things were humming they gave it a name...

Then, in the middle of the night, some corporate executive types
hijacked, once again, the efforts of the workers and enslaved them.

They are now chained to their jobs; a life sentence in the fulfillment center.

With good behavior, once a month they get to see their family from within plexiglass cages.

 

[mayfly13]

Nothing is guaranteed and not all people are worth the extra.
Equity of economic life outcomes isn't the objective of doing business.

When you are general labor, you are pretty replaceable. That's why you can't command a higher salary.

The point is that this is a pervasive problem in American industry. All the benefit of a company's growth goes to the highest executives -- who are certainly not worth a thousand or even a hundred times more than the warehouse workers, in their contributions.

BotBoy's and Q's posts reflect exactly what's wrong with our society today:
the cult of the business man.


Some of them are intellectuals, but others have no education and no meaningful aspirations other than flipping nombers.

When I was growing up, the intellectual and labourer were valued: one for his knowledge gained from books, the other for the knowledge gained from real life.

Half of the "business people" we admire today were seen as low class speculants.

 

[mayfly13]

I'm so tired of reading the same BotanyBoy /Q etc messages again and again:

"let's suck businessmen cocks!"
everyone else is worthless

 

[mayfly13]

BotBoy's and Q's posts reflect exactly what's wrong with our society today:
the cult of the business man.


Some of them are intellectuals, but others have no education and no meaningful aspirations other than flipping nombers.

When I was growing up, the intellectual and labourer were valued: one for his knowledge gained from books, the other for the knowledge gained from real life.

Half of the "business people" we admire today were seen as low class speculants.

ETA

I should have mentioned only BotanyBoy.
I misunderstood what Q's post, which was neutral & was stating a true fact.

 

[Champakian]

Take a deep breath and think about where you would be without "the businessman..."


Sitting around telling stories by candlelight,
you acquaintances limited to your traveling distance
by foot or beast of burden...


Your keyboard and monitor that allows you to reach the world?
Brought to you by "The Businessman."

 

[mayfly13]

Take a deep breath and think about where you would be without "the businessman..."


Sitting around telling stories by candlelight,
you acquaintances limited to your traveling distance
by foot or beast of burden...


Your keyboard and monitor that allows you to reach the world?
Brought to you by "The Businessman."

I wasn't referring to them specifically, I was referring to this neoliberal cult in which every "businessman" is seen as a celestial being.

Some of them are indeed visionaries and useful (like those you mentioned),
but others are leaches like Amazon and the rest home owners who cut costs on the elderly and stretch their underpaid staff to the max.

But even so, do people even know the name of the persons who invented the Internet or Hep C or cancer treatments?
Of course they don't. But everybody knows about Pwho's the latest Pharma or google CEO.

 

[Champakian]

That's a very minuscule cult.


Compared to the cult of Socialism, it is a camel's eyelash...

 

[LittleDixie]

You can always find another job.

If you can't find another job, you're probably right where you need to be.

But, hell, you can just quit. Live in your mom's basement.

 

[mayfly13]

You can always find another job.

If you can't find another job, you're probably right where you need to be.

But, hell, you can just quit. Live in your mom's basement.

which would be fair,
if not for market monopoly and business deregulation