Not to double-dip or anything, but GeekWire has another great Amazon.com-related story up today. It's by local writer Steve Barker (whose Ordinary Madness podcast interviews local arts figures) and it's an open letter to Jeff Bezos about why Amazon has such unloyal employees. It's probably because Amazon treats their workers like shit, and they get shit work in return:
As experienced temps left and new ones rolled in, the breakdown began. Temps who had not paid attention in training were now training new temps. Different temps were teaching different techniques and it wasn’t long before the quality of work suffered. As witness to the poor quality, I made a few attempts to express my concerns, but none of my suggestions were implemented. When one of the higher-ups checked our work and realized that mistakes were being overlooked, performance scorecards were implemented.
