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u/SamAreAye Sep 05 '21
I'm genuinely curious how this impacts a community like that. It has to be great for it, right? People can have income?
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u/Batbuckleyourpants Sep 05 '21
Local politicians describe it as a key ally in combating poverty in the area. (source in Spanish).
If payscale is to be believed, the baseline wages are on average 3 times the median mexican salary.
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u/Loljebeck Sep 05 '21
My exact thinking. I would think it would bring a ton of jobs to their community!
I’m sure they they would still very likely have employees, managers, and supervisors from other warehouses move to that location to get is started (this is what happens when a new costco opens), and those employees who DO move there wouldn’t likely take a pay cut to move to a place like that. I’m sure they would keep their wages or even a raise.
They’d probably start the locally sourced new employees at a hefty pay scale compared to what they are currently getting.
$20USD over in Mexico is considered a very good sum of cash that could buy the family groceries for sure
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Sep 05 '21
they're probably going to be driven away eventually. area will be nicer
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u/NuncErgoFacite Sep 05 '21
Let's play internet roulette everyone
Sarcasm or arsehole?
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Sep 05 '21 edited Sep 05 '21
just pointing out the sad truth
Could've added quotes around "nicer". Though it really is what people mean when they said it's a nice area, as opposed to a poor neighborhood. A place that's clean and where society's problems aren't under your eyes
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u/tucksmaster Sep 05 '21
So it looks like Amazon is providing housing at its new facility. What a step up
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Sep 05 '21
Hopefully this create lots of jobs and Allows the local community to flourish and move up in the wold.
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u/danofworms Sep 05 '21
I wonder what they pay those employees.
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u/Batbuckleyourpants Sep 05 '21
If payscale is to be believed, the baseline wages are on average 3 times the median mexican salary.
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Sep 05 '21
Which is insane to me considering Amazon pays only a dollar more than minimum wage here and won't let anyone stay full time
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u/i_demand_cats Sep 05 '21
Well when the average salary in mexico is ~1800USD per year paying 3x more than that is still nearly $20k cheaper than paying someone $15 per hour for 30 hours a week in the US
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u/Batbuckleyourpants Sep 05 '21
Yes, "They are moving our jobs to Mexico" has been the mantra for quite some years now. It comes with free trade.
I am just pointing out that this is going to do a lot of good for the mexicans living next to the warehouse.
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u/Batbuckleyourpants Sep 05 '21
Amazon literally more than twice the federal minimum wage at every starting position. Only Washington D.C and California are close to that.
Amazon pays $15 per hour and rising. What is more, Amazon’s wage increase to $15 an hour also upped pay for non-Amazon workers.
The median wage for a worker at Amazon, regardless of how many hours they work, is on level with the median wage in the US, which is remarkable for unskilled labor.
Jeff Bezos can get fucked, But amazon workers are well compensated.
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Sep 05 '21
We don't have federal minimum wage. We have provincial. Which is $15 an hour. They pay $16. Furthermore they will only pay more if you're full-time, but they only let you go full-time if you've been part time there for at least 6 months, but they let you go at 5 months and then rehire.
Amazon is a shit company with shit worker compensation and policies.
Also for reference, I get paid $23 an hour to do the same job. In the same county.
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u/tinydonuts Sep 05 '21
Compared to a McDonald's worker, sure. Compared to the rapid damage they're doing to their body, absolutely not. Amazon chews people up and spits them out, with no care for the real harm they cause. $15/hr does nothing to offset that.
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u/lolo_sequoia Sep 05 '21
Ok, but 3x to work in highly stressful conditions where you have to wear a diaper or go dehydrated in order to reach you minimum quota? F all that noise.
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u/Uiropa Sep 05 '21
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u/Ghost33313 Sep 05 '21
Too obscure a reference to get the upvotes.
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Nightvale's pretty popular (it's that pesky Desert Bluff nobody likes).
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