Amazon Creates More Than 5K New Full-Time Jobs In U.S.

The US used to be a country that *made* quality products. Now we celebrate when a major company creates a bunch of menial labor jobs shipping Chinese made junk, because working in a warehouse is something to be proud of! Lookie here! Some $10/hr jobs! Its better than fast food isn't it? How quickly you all have forgotten when Amazon was in the news for horrible/unsafe conditions in these warehouses.

I am not HATING on new jobs, I am hating on everyone stroking Amazon's dick like they did something really laudable here.

Where is your goddamned perspective?

Yet again, you refused to read. Read the post DIRECTLY above your post. Perhaps you will learn something for once. Also you cherry picked the articles that HardOCP posted, you neglected to post all the news articles they post which reflect negatively on Microsoft. Not to mention they also post press releases from Microsoft's competitors.

Seriously, where are you going with your drivel?
 
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5,000 fulfillment jobs, 2,000 customer service jobs, all in the US. Not to mention all the money they are spending building massive amounts of square footage in Seattle. These guys are getting it done and still people find reasons to whine.

Did you think these jobs were going to be done by someone other than American Residents? Amazon simply absorbed work form other retailers.

I'm going to probably pick up some diet coke tonight. Is it going to make a difference if I buy it from Walmart or Target or delivered by Amazon? I'm not going to buy extra pop from Amazon just because I like Amazon's 'style'. Some retailers are better than others, but the fact remains, Its going to be just one of the above.
 
It is amazing how many people are uninformed like this. Amazon does far more than just ship products. A lot of these new jobs are actually highly tech related. They have huge contracts in the government as well as business to provide advanced computing services. You should read up on AWS, as it is currently one of the biggest drivers of their hiring trend. Also many of these jobs are in the Herndon, VA area now, as they are quickly expanding there. They also have 4 other main locations where they hire outside of Washington State.

So were these jobs going to be filled by Mexicans living in Mexico, or Japanese living in Japan, if Amazon didn't fill them? In most cases, they'd be filled by someone else in the US.

So yeah, it was Washington State's gain, but some other state's loss.
 
Better than having it outsourced to India or Mexico. Tell me would you rather package stuff in a warehouse and eat or starve on the streets?

Id rather sit on welfare with free health insurance.
 
Did you think these jobs were going to be done by someone other than American Residents? Amazon simply absorbed work form other retailers.

I'm going to probably pick up some diet coke tonight. Is it going to make a difference if I buy it from Walmart or Target or delivered by Amazon? I'm not going to buy extra pop from Amazon just because I like Amazon's 'style'. Some retailers are better than others, but the fact remains, Its going to be just one of the above.

Where is the proof that these workers were former retail workers? What about the fact, assuming the former is true, that they will now be paid better and have benefits?
 
It is amazing how many people are uninformed like this. Amazon does far more than just ship products. A lot of these new jobs are actually highly tech related. They have huge contracts in the government as well as business to provide advanced computing services. You should read up on AWS, as it is currently one of the biggest drivers of their hiring trend. Also many of these jobs are in the Herndon, VA area now, as they are quickly expanding there. They also have 4 other main locations where they hire outside of Washington State.
And even if the job was just "packing stuff", it's something to be celebrated. This disdain for blue collar work is infuriating.
 
I know 99.9% of you know this already BUT, for the people that seem confused:

Never once have we ever excepted money or compensation from any company in exchange for press releases, news coverage or product reviews.

We post press releases first thing in the morning, to get them out of the way, and the ALL YELLOW text is a nice visial break between yesterday's news and today's news. We post ALL TECH RELATED PRESS RELEASES from companies like Intel, AMD, Microsoft, NVIDIA, WD, etc. etc. etc. every day. We make sure they are listed as Press Releases (all yellow text) so that our readers know that this is what the company is saying, not us. We post a "comments" link so that you, the reader, can have your say on the press release.


Press releases today:

NVIDIA
Microsoft

Press releases Friday:

NVIDIA
Intel

Press releases Thursday:

Western Digital
Intel

Press releases Wednesday:

NVIDIA
Intel

Press releases Tuesday:

AMD
Intel

Press releases Monday:

None

What about that dollar I gave you for the Facebook like?

lol
 
Working for Amazon or any packing/loading company sounds alot better then sitting in an office all day.. I sit on the computer enough at home :cool:
 
Working for Amazon or any packing/loading company sounds alot better then sitting in an office all day.. I sit on the computer enough at home :cool:
When I was younger, I did my time on the factory floor for a couple of different companies. Yes the work was more physically demanding, but there are pluses to that health-wise. The pay was decent, and I enjoyed the company of my fellows on the floor while we worked our shift away. These kinds of jobs can be rewarding in their own right.
 
What's with the glass half empty folks (or all the way empty for a couple :eek: ) ... I bet there will be people lining up for those Amazon jobs ... it would be great if we could all be Congresmen (they earn 174,000 a year and seem to get pretty good increases too) but we can't and work is work ... Good for Amazon to keep expanding their business and provide some much needed jobs for folks :)
 
And even if the job was just "packing stuff", it's something to be celebrated. This disdain for blue collar work is infuriating.

Because the average quality of life of a person is a function of the total work done by his cooperative population divided by the number of people in the population. Labor that isn't multiplied in efficiency by automation or skill specialization brings down the average.

I'm not saying there's something wrong with working hard, but there is something seriously wrong with not multiplying that labor by working smart too. "Packing Stuff" by hand - which is what I assume some people think this kind of job is - isn't a very efficient way to work. Given the increased pay, small number of positions, and a little knowledge of Amazon's warehouse operations I assume these jobs are actually doing the more specialized, hard-to-automate tasks in an otherwise automated warehouse. Most blue-collar jobs in the U.S. have morphed into more grey-collar sorts of positions like this.
 
When I was younger, I did my time on the factory floor for a couple of different companies. Yes the work was more physically demanding, but there are pluses to that health-wise. The pay was decent, and I enjoyed the company of my fellows on the floor while we worked our shift away. These kinds of jobs can be rewarding in their own right.

Yup i agree.. I work Vending and im in alot of different factories and offices. Def would pick the factories but my vending is more fun then both :p
 
Yes I did. You expect people to believe Microsoft (as an example) doesn't pay you guys to post their cut and paste marketing shit? Literally, cut and paste press releases of obvious marketing-drone material? Do I need to find some examples?

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1774049&highlight=microsoft
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1772505&highlight=microsoft
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1772434&highlight=microsoft
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1771416&highlight=microsoft
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1769890&highlight=microsoft
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1765591&highlight=microsoft
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1763082&highlight=microsoft
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1760735&highlight=microsoft

Need I go on? That some highlights from a couple of months and you guys have doing this shit for years. Did you think no one would notice? If the average [H] reader doesn't believe me they can do their own looking. Go ahead and do a search in the Front Page News forum, with the word Microsoft in the title. Make up your own minds about the "quality" and usefulness of that marketing spam.

Between your obvious marketing shill-ing and your inane commentary on articles (most of which you don't even bother reading) this place has gone so far downhill you need a team of dwarven miners to find it. Never mind the rapidly increasing stupidity and ignorance of new membership and rampant misogyny... go ahead and ban me, this place stinks.

Oh yeah, delete this post too, can't have this kind of thing laying around for people to read.

Maybe I am just old and cynical, but I miss the days of the old [H] where over clocking and technology were its forte, not just another content-farming shit hole. Good-bye and good riddance.

Can you tell me where to get the check please?
 
This is the ugliest thread I've seen in a while. Did I miss the memo that changed [H]ard to [H]ate?
 
The US used to be a country that *made* quality products. Now we celebrate when a major company creates a bunch of menial labor jobs shipping Chinese made junk, because working in a warehouse is something to be proud of! Lookie here! Some $10/hr jobs! Its better than fast food isn't it? How quickly you all have forgotten when Amazon was in the news for horrible/unsafe conditions in these warehouses.

I am not HATING on new jobs, I am hating on everyone stroking Amazon's dick like they did something really laudable here.

Where is your goddamned perspective?

It makes me cry how uninformed you are.

The "horrible/unsafe condition" reports were troll bait.

The US *used* to be a place where kids worked in mineshafts 12 hours a day for a pittance. The horrible unsafe conditions you are referring to are air-conditioned buildings with free gatorade...and even the lowest amazon employees get stock btw.
 
This. Who knows how many people are out of jobs BECAUSE of Amazon?

You mean how many people are out of a job BECAUSE people want to buy everything online for the lowest possible price instead of supporting local businesses? Quite a few! :D
 
Where is the proof that these workers were former retail workers? What about the fact, assuming the former is true, that they will now be paid better and have benefits?
Sort of irrelevant. Because then its an incremental change. Its +500 jobs or +50 or -500 jobs.

Chances are if Amazon is genuinely cheaper, its cheaper because its more efficient so it either uses fewer people, pays less, or both. I've seen shows going inside an Amazon facility and it was freakingly amazingly automated by warehouse/distribution standards. So I'm thinking, no, it like not a plus in the employment numbers situation.

That's said, that's irrelevant. A certain amount of the retail aspect must physically happen in the US. If its more efficient, that could help standards of living actually in the long run, like automation has. But that's not the claim of the article. Its a shift of business from some domestic company to another domestic company. Not a big whoopty do at all.

Retailing is a enabler for the fundamental basis of the economy. The making of goods for exchange. As we do less and less of that, surprise, the economy has sucked more and more. And we're proping things up with wallstreet bubbles and goverment borrowing trying to prevent the inevitable crash.

And touting false victories for the economy doesn't help anything at all.
 
So were these jobs going to be filled by Mexicans living in Mexico, or Japanese living in Japan, if Amazon didn't fill them? In most cases, they'd be filled by someone else in the US.

So yeah, it was Washington State's gain, but some other state's loss.

Really, did you not read the last part you quoted me on where I specifically mention that Amazon is expanding outside of Washington state? So explain how that is a loss for other states? And what the heck is with the reference to Mexicans and Japanese?

And even if the job was just "packing stuff", it's something to be celebrated. This disdain for blue collar work is infuriating.

I don't understand where you get disdain for blue collar work in my post?
 
I'll complain and dare the fuck out of you guys to see it different.

Doods, that shit bag that own's Amazon is one of Obama's but boys.

Obama is there now in Amazon's home state talking Voting rights issues. The money for those jobs is coming from the Fed, which took it from those of us who still do have paying jobs. So our money is taken as taxes then pushed to this asshole so he can create 5,000 jobs from the ashes of many more then that, and tell the world how great they are and what wonderful things they are doing for all of us.

In the mean time they are trying to decide how to handle pressure on the voting rights issue, you know, the really simple thing of being able to prove your a citizen of this country before you can vote that we can't get passed in Congress because these assholes claim poor people can't afford to get an ID card. If it's that big a fucking deal I'll vote to raise taxes to pay for their ID cards at least it will help cut back on the massive voting fraud.

So there is your good news.

And BTW, Amazon has a few decent jobs at their Data Center in Oregon and several more doing Kindle and other future hand-held development in Austin. Just in case you lack the initiative to check yourself.
 
There is no massive voting fraud, numbers I have seen suggest it could never swing anything but a local municipality election. The real crime is that people are wasting a ton of time even caring about it, I could go for either and think like you that it should not be that hard to get a damn ID if you want to vote, but alas I cannot make up fake data and pretend it would matter if we required ID.

Second while amazon like most businesses does everything they can to win, at least with Amazon the consumer seems to get a better deal now days. Can't say the same for best buy or many other garbage dumps.
 
Now you to can can pack boxes in non-air conditioned warehouses, for less than minimum wage, and crappy hours.

And who is forcing you to work there?

Ya,no one.. so, how many job's are you creating for the U.S this year? or ever in your life time.

Your crappy attitude is exactly why the U.S has lost so many jobs like this because apparently so many of you are "above" manual labor jobs...:rolleyes:
 
I'll complain and dare the fuck out of you guys to see it different.

Doods, that shit bag that own's Amazon is one of Obama's but boys.

Obama is there now in Amazon's home state talking Voting rights issues. The money for those jobs is coming from the Fed, which took it from those of us who still do have paying jobs. So our money is taken as taxes then pushed to this asshole so he can create 5,000 jobs from the ashes of many more then that, and tell the world how great they are and what wonderful things they are doing for all of us.

In the mean time they are trying to decide how to handle pressure on the voting rights issue, you know, the really simple thing of being able to prove your a citizen of this country before you can vote that we can't get passed in Congress because these assholes claim poor people can't afford to get an ID card. If it's that big a fucking deal I'll vote to raise taxes to pay for their ID cards at least it will help cut back on the massive voting fraud.

So there is your good news.

And BTW, Amazon has a few decent jobs at their Data Center in Oregon and several more doing Kindle and other future hand-held development in Austin. Just in case you lack the initiative to check yourself.

Yes, Obama is giving your taxes to Amazon. You seem educated.
 
Yes, Obama is giving your taxes to Amazon. You seem educated.

Well, somewhat indirectly. If the Fed wasn't artificially suppressing interest rates, it's unclear if Amazon's business model (which generates virtually no profits) would even be viable.

The money that saver's aren't getting as interest is a stealth tax.
 
Well, somewhat indirectly. If the Fed wasn't artificially suppressing interest rates, it's unclear if Amazon's business model (which generates virtually no profits) would even be viable.

The money that saver's aren't getting as interest is a stealth tax.

What savers? This is a borrowers economy we live in. Without cheap easy credit you would see just how bad things could get.
 
Yes, slaving away in a warehouse packaging stuff. Great news!

WOW your attitude blows. thats 5000 people that will actually have a job now. then you accuse HardOCP for taking cash bribes to post this stuff. Laughable at best
 
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