Mayor De Blasio is not handling the Amazon story well...

[brooklynite]

Link to tweet

Amazon's 8 million sq ft site in Long Island City will use land previously designated for Affordable Housing
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-hq2-long-island-city-displacing-affordable-housing-2018-11

[TheBlackAdder]

1. De Blasio knows cardboard refrigerator boxes are both affordable & can be densely installed per acre

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WTF?

A bunch of jobs that force employees to compete against each other, with screens at each workstation showing how one is doing against their "fellow" employees/competitors. The Amazon facility in South Jersey has an 80% quit rate on first day and a 90% quit rate after a week. Employees are expected to fulfill 132 boxes per hour, less than one every 30 seconds, which includes, forming the box, filling it with packing, locating and filling the merch, which could be hundreds of yards away, confirming the order is met, putting in packing material, taping closed, processing packing label.

The rumor is that bathroom breaks are dissuaded and folks wear depends and pee in their pants while working.

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[Calculating]

2. Truly inhumane conditions

Amazon is taking us back to the day where people slaved away in textile mills and such.

[Autumn]

3. Does the Amazon in New Jersey get to collect and keep state taxes they withold

from their employees pay checks? I know that New Jersey is one of the 16 states that allows some companies to do that as part of an incentive package.