Translation: when women run sweatshops, it’s loving and liberal.
While a worker making $15/hour gets patted down on the way out of the warehouse/dungeon to make sure he didn’t slip a screwdriver into his pocket because the company he works for views everyone on its staff as a latent criminal, he can take comfort knowing the whole thing is directed by a woman.
He can rest easy, knowing a woman is now in charge of withholding legally mandated overtime pay. The law doesn’t apply to women executives.
Apparently, though, somehow, all that glorious gender diversity hasn’t alleviated Amazon’s 159% attrition rate (compared to the national average in the warehouse and transportation sector of 46%-59%) or stemmed the tide of growing labor union organizing in its warehouses/Fulfillment Centers/techno-plantations.
Unfortunately for Amazon’s new “Director of Learning and Development,” she might learn that keeping employees at work and silently obedient isn’t as easy as it is at a literal prison when their employment is voluntary.
Woke women overseers, Dayna may come to find, can only do so much to retain a workforce when they’re forced to urinate in bottles for near-minimum wage because they can either take a bathroom break or meet their quota — but not both.
It turns out that breaking through glass gender ceilings won’t go as far as management hopes to compensate workers for heat strokes in 114-degree warehouses — lending new literality to “sweatshop.”
While a worker making $15/hour gets patted down on the way out of the warehouse/dungeon to make sure he didn’t slip a screwdriver into his pocket because the company he works for views everyone on its staff as a latent criminal, he can take comfort knowing the whole thing is directed by a woman.
He can rest easy, knowing a woman is now in charge of withholding legally mandated overtime pay. The law doesn’t apply to women executives.
Apparently, though, somehow, all that glorious gender diversity hasn’t alleviated Amazon’s 159% attrition rate (compared to the national average in the warehouse and transportation sector of 46%-59%) or stemmed the tide of growing labor union organizing in its warehouses/Fulfillment Centers/techno-plantations.
Unfortunately for Amazon’s new “Director of Learning and Development,” she might learn that keeping employees at work and silently obedient isn’t as easy as it is at a literal prison when their employment is voluntary.
Woke women overseers, Dayna may come to find, can only do so much to retain a workforce when they’re forced to urinate in bottles for near-minimum wage because they can either take a bathroom break or meet their quota — but not both.
It turns out that breaking through glass gender ceilings won’t go as far as management hopes to compensate workers for heat strokes in 114-degree warehouses — lending new literality to “sweatshop.”
