He doesn't even want to utter the words "work life balance". When confronted with this he has the same little speech which begins with "I'm very proud of the culture we have at Amazon" in more than one video I've seen.
I work at Amazon they treat you based on the volume they have for the day so at peak they do not bother you at all. Once that volume slows down they will scrutinize your every move and labor track you until you go crazy .
Don’t forget to work like a sweaty me grow you have to work fast and don’t stop do not do any problems that cause the chain to slow down you have to work faster with absolutely no mistakes work faster you slave
Working at Amazon sucks. There is a work life relationship where work dominates and kills your life. It's a great job if you want to lose weight. No time to rest, no time to eat!
Interviewer: is it fair people think Amazon has a harsh workplace culture and would you change anything about it? Jeff: I'm proud of the culture; work-life harmony
The bonk Only a self centered PA or Manager would speak like that. You probably think anyone who works beneath you is a peasant and should be punished. Pathetic!
Bezos: "You can't have a work-life balance when working in high-tech. It's so competitive and unstable here to have a life, but if you're a work-a-holic you'll have fun with us."
it always puzzles me how new age corporations fool employees into leaving their soul and blood at the workplace... guys, wake up, you are working for somebody else's dream! you have to deliver what you are paid for and that's about it
I joined as a software developer 10 years ago. After 1 year my confidence in life was shattered forever sadly still haven't got it back. I'm just hiding at home petrified to write another line of code. Feels like I'm suffering from ptsd since the last 10 years. Destroyed me as a person professionally and personally
Well damn. Sorry to hear. I hope you recover soon and just know that the company way of seeing things is not the definitive way of seeing things in life.
where did you get that from? Maybe this rule applied only to some countries but I could go to the toilet as long and as often I wanted. It's not a nice Job but it's not bad Job either. Don't get why so many people complain so much about it...
@@user-pr7ix3dt7h It's about quality of hours not quantity. I volunteered bagging groceries one time and 3 hours of doing that was absolute hell. I'd rather 8 hours at my current job than 3 hours bagging groceries even if they paid the same.
Just waiting for Amazon to go down a point. Bezos will just flip out!! He will then start to make the workers pay for their own supplies. Bezos will get caught doing something he shouldn't be. Just watch. Something will come out.
Selfish Capitalist So? People are trying to make a living in this extreme times. If you’re a millionaire who thinks everyone who doesn’t make $75K an year is crap then go off to your bourgeoisie class of arrogant people. Live us middle class and lower income folks alone. But don’t disrespect us for we don’t make as much money as you. Human lives shouldn’t have a price tag to it.
the answer is a veiled threat to the workers that if you want to work here, put head down and don't complain. otherwise you won't be able to afford your lifestyle that you overleveraged.
yo, Jeff... go to any Amazon warehouse and show me a happy person with good wages and good work/life balance but it can not be anyone from upper management
If you're so compassionate, why don't you become an entrepreneur and help the people you claim to care for? I bet it's easier just to expect someone else to carry the burden, avoid any responsibility, and mask your envy and hate by shallow claim of compassion.
Hc Of course he didn't, because he can't. Being an Amazon employee is a miserable existence. They have an old fashioned John Locke style of work philosophy. European nations have completely kicked amazon out of their countries because of how amazon treats their employees.
This guy no have any clue about how stressful is for the people who's work at the fulfillment. Example for picker they need have a task time 8.5 seconds per item , your break in theory is 15 minutes but they took out 2.5 depending in which side building you are and back forward also if you had to used the bathroom alot you can get written for that. In a few word people working at fulfillment they are mini robots.
Since their shipping locations are called the "fulfillment", maybe all Bezos is saying is, an employee gets "the fulfillment" they've so desired (They get the job they applied for). If an employee claims that working conditions are terrible, they get transported to "the future" (area of "the fulfillment" with conditions so bad that it'll rapidly age them in no time, instantly zap most of their life away, and cripple them right into restless, destitute retirement. That is "super fun" for Bezos. (i.e., sociopathological satisfying), espec. where he often is, in a cartoonish bubble in the state of deep denial, in a wildly make-believe utopia!
If the richest person on the planet has employees that depend on ration stamps to live, something is morally going horribly wrong. How can I have any respect to that guy?
Ladiekadie Capitalism doesn’t give a damn empathy and all those fancy stuff you mentioned. It’s all a game of pick as much as you can while you can before it’s exhausted. Resources are slim but humans and their wants and needs are too greedy.
@@God.sDaughter The only greedy ones I see are those wishing someone else’s money was theirs. How are you entitled to what someone else built? They already provided you with a job that starts you out at a minimum of $33,000 a year for the lowest possible wage, with not even a high school education required. No ones forcing anyone to work at Amazon, they work there because it pays better than anywhere else for the same requirements.
You get the feel immediately as you start working in the first hour. The ambassador is asking you questions you already answered, and you answer while slowing down or stopping to communicate . What follows is th supervisor telling you how terrible your work was just now. And then repeat. That’s just the first day You get a point next week either due to traffic or not knowing the off highway routes to work, and you learn that your performance is measured by machines and you don’t know how. The next week is followed by getting frustrated and stressed out by everything. Never even knowing your colleagues because you don’t have enough time to communicate with them while you’re getting hounded for low performance. Later on, you start getting pains in all kinds of joints and accept that this is your life now, read other Amazonians to make yourself a bit better or decide to work a little more till you’re hired for another job. It’s not a complicated lifestyle
This man does not live in a bubble.. he is very well aware of the terrible work conditions about his company that circulating all over the internet, media and social media... He's just not gonna deal with it.. simple... so they do interviews like this, act like everything is rosey and ummm yeah...
The employees in Amazon needs to come together and STRIKE!!! for 8 hour workdays, wknds off, good medical and dental benefits, and UNIONIZED, and bust the Trust!!! = TEDDY ROOSEVELT
I said the very same thing! Employees should GO ON STRIKE! All at once, on the exact same day at the exact same time. I honestly think money is being embezzled. How would Jeff Bezos know? He's got so much of it! HELP THE HOMELESS! FEED THE HUNGRY! SUPPORT OUR VETERANS!!!!
Interviewer "Amazon has been criticized for having harsh working conditions" Bezos "Its important for the employees to be happy." Lol. Guy is the terminator of CEOs.
The man should agree to work the floor of one of his busy order fulfilment centres under the exact conditions he expects his employees to work under for a month. Any CEO or employer worth anything would first understand the position and secondly not expect anybody to do anything he wouldn’t be able too. 1 month in there as a nobody working under his own rules and he’d be weeping like a baby. I see this as just another case of a completely out of touch ivory tower egotistical sociopathic rich corporate boss. So what’s new.
If you're so compassionate, why don't you become an entrepreneur and help the people you claim to care for? I bet it's easier just to expect someone else to carry the burden and for you to avoid any responsibility and to mask your envy and hate with empty shallow virtue signaling.
I worked as a driver for Amazon and it's disgusting how they treat u keep yer bonus work long hours not entitled to a break high parcel counts 200 a day all that for 70 a day but then if yer vans damaged they withhold yer wages then u end up with nothing they steal it so they don't have to pay you my wages are onhold at the minuite but it's left me and my kids without because I haven't been paid Amazon treats there drivers badly you can't withhold a family man's wage and leave him with nothing if it doesn't get sorted soon I will be taking my matter further to recover what I'm owed and the damage it's done to my family
Shane Allport I worked as a forklift driver at the one in Scotland because of the hard targets we had to hit there were accidents on a daily basis caused by rushing someone got hurt and 4 people lost their jobs because targets were not hit on time including me . Jeff doesn't deserve to be in business amazon deserves to collapse
I left the company as they treat u more like slaves rather than an employee for the money they pay it's not worth it 70 a day to deliver 180 parcels disgusting
Uncle Jeff you have no clue how the employees are treated. You encourage cut throat tactics in the work place as well as back stabbing. You need such a reality check on this company and how YOU ALLOW your management team to treat people. If it was not for your payoffs you would have more problems in this company.
I use to work for Amazon first 5 weeks we had mandatory OT 50 hours a week for first 5 weeks there. But after that it was guaranteed 40 hour weeks 4 10 hour shifts. 3 days in a row off. Clock in/out same time with a 3 min grace period or something like that. The work itself was pretty tough, they wanted u to hit numbers, I was able to hit the numbers almost every single day, but one day I missed the quota by a couple boxes and I was talked to about it in a respectable tone. Once I came back from break a couple minutes late and was looked at by manager with her looking at her watch as well as me, lol. Not terrible but not cake. However reliable paycheck for sure.
How can you be happy when u stand for 10h, u avoid toilets cause u dont want ur productivity to go down and ur entire body hurts at the end of the 4 days shift !!!!
He's a creep. He is a typical CEO. Workers aren't people, and ALWAYS need to work harder, work more, skip breaks, and accept as low of pay as possibly can be given to them. It isn't that he is clueless, he just views workers to exist as profit makers, that's it. He's the type of CEO that would pay his workers .10 a day if he could get away with it, and force them onto legal contracts, binding them there, and lock them inside a warehouse or factory, forbidding bathroom or water breaks. Amazon is the modern Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.
A company gives unrealistic deadlines so that its workforce will cut corners in a way that the company can disavow if it is caught. Does Amazon lower management inspire cutting corners? Or, is it actively trying to prevent such?
I worked at Amazon in cali, its a people mill, they bring you in work you till your ragged and kick you out. Management doesn't care if you have any injuries and the people in the medical bay really don't care about you. Ive had a bad left knee since I was 18 and I have to wear a brace on it, I made quota all the time but when my knee started to flare up I had to slow down a little bit and as I explained that to them, showed them my knee, and my brace, my manager wrote me up. One guy I worked with in the lines uncle was shot and killed, he took a day to go to the funeral and they fired him. I would never recommend the job to anyone ever.
I genuinely don't understand why you don't just quit then? I work 12ish hours a day in a very innovative company and I love it. If I didn't, I would leave. Why don't you?
I genuinely don't understand why you genuinely don't understand why people don't "just quit." Did you really rack your brain and were not able to come up with any legitimate reasons? Thats Crazy!! Fortunately it sounds like we both like our jobs, but Ive been in a bad job situation before where just quitting was not an option. It sounds like you have a genuine lack of empathy for people.
Analogue Soul i think sociopathy is mostly genetic and determined by childhood experiences. people dont choose to be sociopaths anymore than people choose to be gay. people like to think everybody conciously makes their own decisions because its easier to assign blame for bad behavior and take credit for their own achievements but everyday science is proving that free will is an illusion. we are more or less observers in this life who beleive we are in the drivers seat...in my opion that is.
John Doe It's not I live in the u.s and it's a 13 hr shift and only reason people stay or work there is the weekly pay and it's a job that's all it's a miserable place to work
Don’t forget to work faster with no break and no bathroom break just keep working like a dog I don’t care how tired you are get my delivery to me fax you slave
The amozon work place is not for normal humans. The turn over rate at the am shops is outrageous. Most older employees cannot put up with the work pace
The way he said “even so” when iPads were brought up. You could see the dread of a loss of power, knowing amazon is not the only successful corporation
Not mentioning working for 12 even 14 hours sometimes in toxic environment. Mental health issues are pretty much considered part of the job. Employees having drinking problems just to be able to fall asleep... I could go on.
I worked for Amazon in Staten Island JFK8 Fulfillment Center. It’s a glorified sweatshop. And it was literal hell. Started in October 2019, quit in February 2020. Best decision I made
I worked one day and have not been back. This is modern day slavery. Just don't understand why people would work under conditions like this. You have to make changes for yourself. No one can do it for you. I would rather plant corn than work for this company.
I wouldn't want to do the same job everyday but what I hear from employees at Amazon they do the same job everyday you can tell someone has never worked that job before
what he said is basically nothing, just a normal guy with a brilliant and lucky idea that made money. the rest is on the managers and supervisors that basically run the company and they treat people miserably. not everyone with a big success like him can be a role business model or a mentor, he's just a normal boss who doesn't care or maybe doesn't want to know.
Lloyd Cool it's not just the luck of the draw with a good idea. Do you know how hard it is to build a company from the ground up into a global empire? He easily initially worked more hours than the guys in the fulfillment centers. Don't bite from the hand that feeds you. I work at Amazon over the summers while in school and it is what it is: work. Work with no skills required and decent pay considering that and great benefits.
@@TH-camUserCMXVIICDI That's what the company does, it's simply consolidates products onto one online storefront and connects you to a group of shipping companies all in one place to get you products that Amazon doesnt manufacture. That's it. It's not life meaningful work, it's a store!
Jeff clearly answered this question with the office culture in mind, white collar business people. The blue collar fulfilment centers people is where the hell hole is at in terms of the jobs.
It sounds like he's obviously asked about the rank n' file warehouse environment and answers as if he's talking about his fellow executives and upper management.
All hail daddy bezos. I currently work at Amazon. I hope one day to get a big eye ball like daddy does. And also like Elon gets when he smoked pot and made stocks drop worldwide
He can't explain away his abusive workplace with nice words or vague ideas about how the only workers he considers valid are dedicated to some notion of appearing "happy" at work.
"I hereby announce that amazon is rolling out a work/life balance program, to not only cultivate the innovation of man at his most capable working state, but to also tap into the lifeforce of man to harness maximum retail power over all life on earth!"
I worked at a fulfillment center where pregnant women were passing out because they were not allowed a fan. Meanwhile, the quality control, 90% at a desk people were surrounded by fans. This place is disgusting to work for and even worse to buy from. I never shop Amazon.
I don't think he was talking about the fullfillment associates who work through the night in the warehouses. Fullfillment Associates do the same job every day.
He don't care about peoples that do the work. To work in a company warehouse for two and a half years and I'll be recognized For Your Excellence. And contribution. Is a lack of interest in its employees and if you have employees that are in position to make changes for those employees who are struggling to make not on the ends meet to have a better life for oneself then they should take into consideration all the hard work that's being put into the company into the organization and be rewarded for their hard work and Excellence. That's what I mean about caring for your employees. Not checking your hundreds of millions of dollars and buying mansions and buying hookers for your pleasure while other struggle to meet ends meet.
I don't get why everyone is bashing Amazon, I work for Amazon and it's honestly not that bad . I work thursday- Saturday for 12 hours , the benefits are great and so is the hourly pay.
I've work at Amazon for 4 years. Everyone is constantly looking at the time
and the cams there look at you watching the clock. losing credit points,
why?
does looking at the time make the clock run faster?
HE MEANS IN CORPORATE IDIOT
Same lol
@@rebeccaellsbury73 I get paid 15.75
He doesn't even want to utter the words "work life balance". When confronted with this he has the same little speech which begins with "I'm very proud of the culture we have at Amazon" in more than one video I've seen.
I work at Amazon they treat you based on the volume they have for the day so at peak they do not bother you at all. Once that volume slows down they will scrutinize your every move and labor track you until you go crazy .
how much u get paid
Drewski Levi and nit pic stack rate and terminate u like me for 2 errors.......lol
It's true, when the volume is high they're happy and treat you well. When it's slow, they will screw you until you feel like dying. Haha
Don’t forget to work like a sweaty me grow you have to work fast and don’t stop do not do any problems that cause the chain to slow down you have to work faster with absolutely no mistakes work faster you slave
You don’t work there from your lack of punctuation and unnecessary spaces
The first thing out of his mouth "I am very proud of the culture of amazon"....sums it up
Hahaha.... It's like saying, "I am proud of my nature."
Working at Amazon sucks. There is a work life relationship where work dominates and kills your life. It's a great job if you want to lose weight. No time to rest, no time to eat!
Cool. Then don't work at Amazon. It's that simple. Work at Walmart.
Daniel L I do want to lose weight absent working for an ass-hole.
walmart sucks too lmfao Do you work at Amazon? if you do good luck its Slave labor
Danny L drooped two pants size but not gut
I have worked for Wal-Mart and Amazon and Amazon causes your health to decline. I liked Wal-Mart better even though the pay was $3 less an hour.
Interviewer: is it fair people think Amazon has a harsh workplace culture and would you change anything about it?
Jeff: I'm proud of the culture; work-life harmony
1:54 "happy at work" "come home energized" From amazon slave warehouse? xD xD
from getting bjs
They chose that life.
The bonk
Only a self centered PA or Manager would speak like that.
You probably think anyone who works beneath you is a peasant and should be punished.
Pathetic!
Bezos: "You can't have a work-life balance when working in high-tech. It's so competitive and unstable here to have a life, but if you're a work-a-holic you'll have fun with us."
sure... because that person won't have any time to do any fun with others...
it always puzzles me how new age corporations fool employees into leaving their soul and blood at the workplace... guys, wake up, you are working for somebody else's dream! you have to deliver what you are paid for and that's about it
You think we want to work for somebody else?? We cant survive in today's society without a job.....
Job is for people who can't risk it to be entrepreneurs.
@@selfishcapitalist3523 who can't risk it? everyone can risk it. only few dare to.
Thank capitalism for that.
@@selfishcapitalist3523 jobs are risky too, look at how people lost their jobs during the pandemic.
I joined as a software developer 10 years ago. After 1 year my confidence in life was shattered forever sadly still haven't got it back. I'm just hiding at home petrified to write another line of code. Feels like I'm suffering from ptsd since the last 10 years. Destroyed me as a person professionally and personally
Well damn. Sorry to hear. I hope you recover soon and just know that the company way of seeing things is not the definitive way of seeing things in life.
he ducked the question....completely talked around it
CEO = Con man
He looks like a bond villian lol
Easily the worst place I've ever worked. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
I agree.
@TVSuchty Nope it depends of the boss of each company.
Hey what was your job role ? title ?
TVSuchty nobody cares about your wellbeing either
Where did you work? HQ?
Anyone else notice him barely containing his frustration at the question? Almost like he thinks it's trivial.
Watching the clock all day...bahahha coming from the man that measures bathroom breaks
where did you get that from? Maybe this rule applied only to some countries but I could go to the toilet as long and as often I wanted. It's not a nice Job but it's not bad Job either. Don't get why so many people complain so much about it...
@@doomskill everytime i go to the bathroom while picking i have a manager waiting for me when i get back.
@@subpar.smoocher hmm, thats bad. But this wasnt the case when I worked there.
@@doomskill what department were you?
@@subpar.smoocher pick and pack. Actually everywhere where soneone was needed
I worked there and I had to quit it was the hardest job I ever had your brain is fried at the end of an 8 hr. shift!
8 hours is easy try working 12 hours a day.
@@user-pr7ix3dt7h It's about quality of hours not quantity. I volunteered bagging groceries one time and 3 hours of doing that was absolute hell. I'd rather 8 hours at my current job than 3 hours bagging groceries even if they paid the same.
@@user-pr7ix3dt7h I worked 10 hrs. 4 days a week!
@@thoryan3057 Amazon shopper?
Definitely fried after a ten hour shift
Just another CEO narcissist with false charm. They are the best liars.
Just waiting for Amazon to go down a point. Bezos will just flip out!! He will then start to make the workers pay for their own supplies. Bezos will get caught doing something he shouldn't be. Just watch. Something will come out.
Nobody is forcing you to work at Amazon
Selfish Capitalist
So?
People are trying to make a living in this extreme times.
If you’re a millionaire who thinks everyone who doesn’t make $75K an year is crap then go off to your bourgeoisie class of arrogant people.
Live us middle class and lower income folks alone.
But don’t disrespect us for we don’t make as much money as you. Human lives shouldn’t have a price tag to it.
I'm not an expert in reading lies but a blind man could read Jeff's lying in that video.
the answer is a veiled threat to the workers that if you want to work here, put head down and don't complain. otherwise you won't be able to afford your lifestyle that you overleveraged.
he just explained his work life balance.
yo, Jeff... go to any Amazon warehouse and show me a happy person with good wages and good work/life balance
but it can not be anyone from upper management
100 person true we middle class pay 20 percent tax and richest person pay 1.2 percent
Lex Luthor has more compassion compared to this psychopath.
If you're so compassionate, why don't you become an entrepreneur and help the people you claim to care for? I bet it's easier just to expect someone else to carry the burden, avoid any responsibility, and mask your envy and hate by shallow claim of compassion.
96% of All Amazon employees including Office , code writers , eng, warehouse workers etc...have though of suicide.... That is scary
Why everyone refers to him as a paychopath? I look at him as inspiration
@@ELLE-ej2bf because you are fool. At best naive and ignorant
@@Gluluman that is why i'll never will invest in Amazon
He’s obviously not talking about the warehouse workers he’s talking about the engineers he works with
he didn't address the issue at all...
He's better than any politician
Hc Of course he didn't, because he can't. Being an Amazon employee is a miserable existence. They have an old fashioned John Locke style of work philosophy. European nations have completely kicked amazon out of their countries because of how amazon treats their employees.
Of course he didn't, as expected
He addressed it! "Take it or leave it".
All talk
Mr. Bezos, you have any clue how some of your employees *bully* other employees? You are so divorced from reality when you talk like this.
who cares
Very true there is so much favoritism there especially if your a young good looking girl! And there are a lot!
This guy no have any clue about how stressful is for the people who's work at the fulfillment. Example for picker they need have a task time 8.5 seconds per item , your break in theory is 15 minutes but they took out 2.5 depending in which side building you are and back forward also if you had to used the bathroom alot you can get written for that. In a few word people working at fulfillment they are mini robots.
Then don't work there. It's so simple. Work for Microsoft.
Since their shipping locations are called the "fulfillment", maybe all Bezos is saying is, an employee gets "the fulfillment" they've so desired (They get the job they applied for). If an employee claims that working conditions are terrible, they get transported to "the future" (area of "the fulfillment" with conditions so bad that it'll rapidly age them in no time, instantly zap most of their life away, and cripple them right into restless, destitute retirement.
That is "super fun" for Bezos. (i.e., sociopathological satisfying), espec. where he often is, in a cartoonish bubble in the state of deep denial, in a wildly make-believe utopia!
If the richest person on the planet has employees that depend on ration stamps to live, something is morally going horribly wrong. How can I have any respect to that guy?
He makes money...isn't money the most important thing ever???
@CagedLadie he do for his family tho
Ladiekadie
Capitalism doesn’t give a damn empathy and all those fancy stuff you mentioned. It’s all a game of pick as much as you can while you can before it’s exhausted. Resources are slim but humans and their wants and needs are too greedy.
@@God.sDaughter The only greedy ones I see are those wishing someone else’s money was theirs. How are you entitled to what someone else built? They already provided you with a job that starts you out at a minimum of $33,000 a year for the lowest possible wage, with not even a high school education required. No ones forcing anyone to work at Amazon, they work there because it pays better than anywhere else for the same requirements.
@@God.sDaughter christ, don't cut yourself with all that edge
With people like this - you just want to believe that karma is real..
Tru... Tru...
"come home as an energized husband, energized dad" - comes from a man who had affair as he didn't go home as energized husband.
why is he saying these high level abstract crap? he should get to the point.
Doge no doge
You get the feel immediately as you start working in the first hour. The ambassador is asking you questions you already answered, and you answer while slowing down or stopping to communicate . What follows is th supervisor telling you how terrible your work was just now. And then repeat. That’s just the first day
You get a point next week either due to traffic or not knowing the off highway routes to work, and you learn that your performance is measured by machines and you don’t know how.
The next week is followed by getting frustrated and stressed out by everything. Never even knowing your colleagues because you don’t have enough time to communicate with them while you’re getting hounded for low performance.
Later on, you start getting pains in all kinds of joints and accept that this is your life now, read other Amazonians to make yourself a bit better or decide to work a little more till you’re hired for another job.
It’s not a complicated lifestyle
Well articulated 😂👍 I enjoyed reading that, man.
Working 10 hour days standing messed up my spine.
I'm sorry for your pain. Hopefully you'll find better alternatives in life.
Ouch. Noone should have to work that hard.
Try and do some yoga. Believe it or not it certainly helps!
This man does not live in a bubble.. he is very well aware of the terrible work conditions about his company that circulating all over the internet, media and social media... He's just not gonna deal with it.. simple... so they do interviews like this, act like everything is rosey and ummm yeah...
There is no work life balance, sounds like these folks are being worked to the bone. He is not answering the question.
Mr. Bezos have you by now read the comments below. What about the warehouses? and air-conditioners? No wonder you tend to stutter on this interview.
The employees in Amazon needs to come together and STRIKE!!! for 8 hour workdays, wknds off, good medical and dental benefits, and UNIONIZED, and bust the Trust!!! = TEDDY ROOSEVELT
What really needs to happen is just don’t buy from amazon, it’s a monster. So just stop feeding it.
I said the very same thing! Employees should GO ON STRIKE! All at once, on the exact same day at the exact same time.
I honestly think money is being embezzled. How would Jeff Bezos know? He's got so much of it!
HELP THE HOMELESS!
FEED THE HUNGRY!
SUPPORT OUR VETERANS!!!!
I wish he could work at a fulfillment wear house for a year
Interviewer "Amazon has been criticized for having harsh working conditions"
Bezos "Its important for the employees to be happy."
Lol. Guy is the terminator of CEOs.
Unionize Amazon!
The man should agree to work the floor of one of his busy order fulfilment centres under the exact conditions he expects his employees to work under for a month. Any CEO or employer worth anything would first understand the position and secondly not expect anybody to do anything he wouldn’t be able too. 1 month in there as a nobody working under his own rules and he’d be weeping like a baby. I see this as just another case of a completely out of touch ivory tower egotistical sociopathic rich corporate boss. So what’s new.
That's the way it was when I was coming up. If the boss wouldn't or couldn't do what he expected of his employees, he got no respect.
Maybe sign on as Undercover Boss?
A good makeup artist is needed for that, not the BS of Boss undercover
If you're so compassionate, why don't you become an entrepreneur and help the people you claim to care for? I bet it's easier just to expect someone else to carry the burden and for you to avoid any responsibility and to mask your envy and hate with empty shallow virtue signaling.
+Road Kamelot Funny, because you could just as easily ask Jeff Bezos the same question.
0:08 I don't care, but ask me anyway.
I worked as a driver for Amazon and it's disgusting how they treat u keep yer bonus work long hours not entitled to a break high parcel counts 200 a day all that for 70 a day but then if yer vans damaged they withhold yer wages then u end up with nothing they steal it so they don't have to pay you my wages are onhold at the minuite but it's left me and my kids without because I haven't been paid Amazon treats there drivers badly you can't withhold a family man's wage and leave him with nothing if it doesn't get sorted soon I will be taking my matter further to recover what I'm owed and the damage it's done to my family
Shane Allport I worked as a forklift driver at the one in Scotland because of the hard targets we had to hit there were accidents on a daily basis caused by rushing someone got hurt and 4 people lost their jobs because targets were not hit on time including me . Jeff doesn't deserve to be in business amazon deserves to collapse
I left the company as they treat u more like slaves rather than an employee for the money they pay it's not worth it 70 a day to deliver 180 parcels disgusting
grammar dude...
You do not have time to complain about your pay you half to work like a sweaty Nager
Shane Allport Maybe they should've given you a spelling course
Uncle Jeff you have no clue how the employees are treated. You encourage cut throat tactics in the work place as well as back stabbing. You need such a reality check on this company and how YOU ALLOW your management team to treat people. If it was not for your payoffs you would have more problems in this company.
I use to work for Amazon first 5 weeks we had mandatory OT 50 hours a week for first 5 weeks there. But after that it was guaranteed 40 hour weeks 4 10 hour shifts. 3 days in a row off. Clock in/out same time with a 3 min grace period or something like that. The work itself was pretty tough, they wanted u to hit numbers, I was able to hit the numbers almost every single day, but one day I missed the quota by a couple boxes and I was talked to about it in a respectable tone. Once I came back from break a couple minutes late and was looked at by manager with her looking at her watch as well as me, lol. Not terrible but not cake. However reliable paycheck for sure.
How can you be happy when u stand for 10h, u avoid toilets cause u dont want ur productivity to go down and ur entire body hurts at the end of the 4 days shift !!!!
give us a pay raise!
lisa carstens That's why he's the richest guy in the world because jeff pays their employees cheap
He's a creep. He is a typical CEO. Workers aren't people, and ALWAYS need to work harder, work more, skip breaks, and accept as low of pay as possibly can be given to them. It isn't that he is clueless, he just views workers to exist as profit makers, that's it. He's the type of CEO that would pay his workers .10 a day if he could get away with it, and force them onto legal contracts, binding them there, and lock them inside a warehouse or factory, forbidding bathroom or water breaks. Amazon is the modern Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.
Literally Hitler
No Jeff, conditions in your warehouses are pretty bad. Clearly you've never worked in them.
A company gives unrealistic deadlines so that its workforce will cut corners in a way that the company can disavow if it is caught. Does Amazon lower management inspire cutting corners? Or, is it actively trying to prevent such?
I worked at Amazon in cali, its a people mill, they bring you in work you till your ragged and kick you out. Management doesn't care if you have any injuries and the people in the medical bay really don't care about you. Ive had a bad left knee since I was 18 and I have to wear a brace on it, I made quota all the time but when my knee started to flare up I had to slow down a little bit and as I explained that to them, showed them my knee, and my brace, my manager wrote me up. One guy I worked with in the lines uncle was shot and killed, he took a day to go to the funeral and they fired him. I would never recommend the job to anyone ever.
lmao. we work 6 ten hour shifts. how is our life looked at for balancing.
ikr
quit bro
I genuinely don't understand why you don't just quit then? I work 12ish hours a day in a very innovative company and I love it. If I didn't, I would leave.
Why don't you?
I genuinely don't understand why you genuinely don't understand why people don't "just quit." Did you really rack your brain and were not able to come up with any legitimate reasons? Thats Crazy!! Fortunately it sounds like we both like our jobs, but Ive been in a bad job situation before where just quitting was not an option. It sounds like you have a genuine lack of empathy for people.
Analogue Soul i think sociopathy is mostly genetic and determined by childhood experiences. people dont choose to be sociopaths anymore than people choose to be gay. people like to think everybody conciously makes their own decisions because its easier to assign blame for bad behavior and take credit for their own achievements but everyday science is proving that free will is an illusion. we are more or less observers in this life who beleive we are in the drivers seat...in my opion that is.
Gold standard? Balance? All I hear is bs
BULLSHIT.... amazon employees in INDIA work from 9am to 12 midnight...
Please tell me that is an exaggeration
John Doe It's not I live in the u.s and it's a 13 hr shift and only reason people stay or work there is the weekly pay and it's a job that's all it's a miserable place to work
what? how is that possible
Don’t forget to work faster with no break and no bathroom break just keep working like a dog I don’t care how tired you are get my delivery to me fax you slave
siddharth b please provide your sources and please remember media and internet are not reliable sources.
1-5-18
Simple, there is no work life balance when you work there.
Most throw-up speech I have ever heard.
The amozon work place is not for normal humans. The turn over rate at the am shops is outrageous. Most older employees cannot put up with the work pace
The way he said “even so” when iPads were brought up. You could see the dread of a loss of power, knowing amazon is not the only successful corporation
Hahahha 😂 I like how he diverted the question
Didn't even come close to answering the question 😂
Not mentioning working for 12 even 14 hours sometimes in toxic environment. Mental health issues are pretty much considered part of the job. Employees having drinking problems just to be able to fall asleep... I could go on.
This is what happens when the society values individuals based on their bank balance and status symbols.
lol, I think he assumes this discussion is about his work life
watching this vid for homework
thanks to the comment section; really makes the paper easier
"Pretty soon they'll have machine learning too-" pretty soon they'll have no jobs, too, is what he meant. Not his fault, but true.
For all we know bezos sits in a designer chair on a tall platform staring at his workers as they work
How much money do you need...
the last 20 seconds of the video are probably the most honest to how he operates as a boss lmao
I worked for Amazon in Staten Island JFK8 Fulfillment Center. It’s a glorified sweatshop. And it was literal hell. Started in October 2019, quit in February 2020. Best decision I made
I don't think that's how sweatshops work
hahaha listening to him vs reading these Amazon worker confessions is like a Curb Your Enthusiasm meme
All those happy little Amazon employees, and I even talk to them sometimes
AWS is one of the most brutal places I've ever worked. It's hyper political and filled with nut jobs.
I worked one day and have not been back. This is modern day slavery. Just don't understand why people would work under conditions like this. You have to make changes for yourself. No one can do it for you. I would rather plant corn than work for this company.
He's a liar
Working at Amazon :
It’s gonna be a no for me dawg
LOL Jeff is worst ceo. his explanation is clearly is a makeup !!!
he will not be the richest person in history if he is a worst ceo
coming from a dude named ACOOLBOI
He will always have that stigma of unethical treatment of workers.
Freddy Kreuger before he got burnt.
I wouldn't want to do the same job everyday but what I hear from employees at Amazon they do the same job everyday you can tell someone has never worked that job before
what he said is basically nothing, just a normal guy with a brilliant and lucky idea that made money. the rest is on the managers and supervisors that basically run the company and they treat people miserably. not everyone with a big success like him can be a role business model or a mentor, he's just a normal boss who doesn't care or maybe doesn't want to know.
he was trying to hide answer in a useless speech about nothing
You miserable people hating on the rich guy as usual.
Lloyd Cool it's not just the luck of the draw with a good idea. Do you know how hard it is to build a company from the ground up into a global empire? He easily initially worked more hours than the guys in the fulfillment centers. Don't bite from the hand that feeds you. I work at Amazon over the summers while in school and it is what it is: work. Work with no skills required and decent pay considering that and great benefits.
Nah Bruh The benefits are not good
i would like to add; people care about amazon especially normal people that wish they had invested when they had the chance and could have afford to.
Talk about deflecting a question ...
Don't sell for them! One disgustingly horrific selling experience.
So shipping products is life meaningful work?
What interview were you watching? Nobody was talking about warehouse workers in this one.
@@TH-camUserCMXVIICDI That's what the company does, it's simply consolidates products onto one online storefront and connects you to a group of shipping companies all in one place to get you products that Amazon doesnt manufacture. That's it. It's not life meaningful work, it's a store!
Jeff doesn’t give a Fock about his employees.
Jeff clearly answered this question with the office culture in mind, white collar business people.
The blue collar fulfilment centers people is where the hell hole is at in terms of the jobs.
He listened the question with pinnacle of patience and then made the question wrong
The interviewer is terrified , and should not be interviewing anyone. Jeff Bezos cares about no one but the money god.
I feel like throwing up.
Please do. We don't need more people like you in the world.
throwing up ≠ him killing himself
It sounds like he's obviously asked about the rank n' file warehouse environment and answers as if he's talking about his fellow executives and upper management.
When he says look at clock means the person at home is looking at the clock waiting for their package facts!
All hail daddy bezos. I currently work at Amazon. I hope one day to get a big eye ball like daddy does. And also like Elon gets when he smoked pot and made stocks drop worldwide
He can't explain away his abusive workplace with nice words or vague ideas about how the only workers he considers valid are dedicated to some notion of appearing "happy" at work.
"Missionaries"...right away everyone should consider he is creating a cult like atmosphere. "Work life harmony"...this is all cult talk.
His squirmy body language speaks volumes. I see a lot of repressed guilt.
I work at Amazon and love it
"I hereby announce that amazon is rolling out a work/life balance program, to not only cultivate the innovation of man at his most capable working state, but to also tap into the lifeforce of man to harness maximum retail power over all life on earth!"
Lex Luther needs a full staff of Supermen working hard that give up on their lives with their families.
Who should not be proud of the working conditions. You should see the undercover videos showing what really goes on.
I worked at a fulfillment center where pregnant women were passing out because they were not allowed a fan. Meanwhile, the quality control, 90% at a desk people were surrounded by fans. This place is disgusting to work for and even worse to buy from. I never shop Amazon.
He's a scumbag and I think amazon needs to be broken up into public assets. He's a dangerous man.
I don't think he was talking about the fullfillment associates who work through the night in the warehouses. Fullfillment Associates do the same job every day.
he never talked about the employee programs
He don't care about peoples that do the work. To work in a company warehouse for two and a half years and I'll be recognized For Your Excellence. And contribution. Is a lack of interest in its employees and if you have employees that are in position to make changes for those employees who are struggling to make not on the ends meet to have a better life for oneself then they should take into consideration all the hard work that's being put into the company into the organization and be rewarded for their hard work and Excellence. That's what I mean about caring for your employees. Not checking your hundreds of millions of dollars and buying mansions and buying hookers for your pleasure while other struggle to meet ends meet.
I don't get why everyone is bashing Amazon, I work for Amazon and it's honestly not that bad . I work thursday- Saturday for 12 hours , the benefits are great and so is the hourly pay.
Daja Gervin the pay is whack
Do You make 27. 00 per hour?
The culture he talks about must be in the office environment "where people matter", as people who work on the ground tells a different horror tale.
he has no idea what its like at amazon and he is the boss