Author: Olivia

Pre-Covid, Amazon banned the keeping of a cell phone on your person and lockers were utilized, but for the pandemic workers are allowed to have their devices for Covid-related emergencies. At the end of 2021 Amazon came under heavy scrutiny due to the well-established belief, on the side of regular, entry-level workers, that workers' best chance at personal safety ultimately lies in their own hands and in access to critical information originating outside of the warehouse, specifically after the tragic Edwardsville, Illinois warehouse collapse. Now that the media/news has moved on from covering Amazon's phone ban, the company is once again rolling back a policy which essentially demands that if someone shoots up the warehouse (it's happened before) we, as living, breathing human beings, do not fundamentally deserve the chance for sharing last words to our loved ones or calling emergency services for help. If a tornado or winter storm…

Employers paying above-average wages will happily advertise that fact. So if pay isn't prominently advertised, assume it is at or below the bottom of the range for that job. There might be other reasons you want to apply to a job, but if pay is your main concern, don't waste your time inquiring/responding to job ads that don't advertise the pay. Education benefits, PTO, bonuses, weasel words like “competitive wages”… This is literally the hiring people saying “how can we get people to invest time/energy into applying before we tell them the pay sucks”?