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I don't know what to tell you, possibly the jobs we had before that shaped our opinion of it, it also matters who your manager is because they give them a lot of carte blanche as far as how they do things, you can get a shit manager who enforces all the rules or one who doesn't give a shit as long as the work gets done. When I left I was making $24 an hour which is good here. In the summer when it was super hot out they would come around with frozen electrolyte pops to hand them out and cool people off, my new job had warm bottles of water for us. They were always handing out snacks and Amazon swag which whatever, but something to wear to work, still use one of the coffee mugs. I was using my PTO and UPT to leave early on a daily basis, my last year I left early every day for several months without incident. It's 4 days a week so you have 3 off, granted those 4 days are pretty much all work if you have a commute. If you're a good worker I found them to be extremely lenient but YMMV.
I really don't know what to tell the other guy,but his comment reeks of privilege, not everyone can be an accountant or lawyer or start their own business or have some other grand job, some people just want a shitty low key job with no responsibility. We can't re-train everyone and it doesn't look like UBI is coming here any time soon, so yes, people need these jobs.
You sound like a fucking robot dude. Or someone who reads a lot of articles.
Didn't Amazon kill people because they wouldn't let them go home in a hurricane? That's not on the individual managers that's corporate policy.