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Amazon has announced that it will create 100,000 new full-time jobs in the U.S. over the next 18 months, mostly in warehouses (fulfillment centers) and call centers. Many of the jobs will be added in Texas, California, Florida, New Jersey, among other states:
Amazon has quickly ramped up its workforce over the last few years, as it pushes to open up more fulfillment centers to get packages out to its customers more quickly. In 2011, Amazon had 30,000 full-time employees in the U.S. At the end of last year, it employed 180,000 people. [...] Amazon has seen "tremendous" demand for their retail service as well as a fast-growing cloud business, says Edward Jones analyst Josh Olson on why Amazon is hungry for more workers. Amazon is increasingly emphasizing convenience of its retail service, such as Same-Day Delivery options, as its edge on pricing dulls with the introduction of state sales taxes.
President-elect Trump's incoming press secretary Sean Spicer helped his boss to take credit for the news:
"The president-elect met with heads of several of the tech companies and urged them to keep their jobs and production inside the United States," spokesman Sean Spicer said in his opening remarks in a press call on Thursday.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday January 13 2017, @04:05PM
Lawyers' offices, doctors' offices, plumbing crews, accounting firms, electrician crews, car lots, furniture stores, dentists' offices, auto mechanics, independent hospitals, body shops, health clubs, banks, small time ISPs, and pretty much every business that needs management. The list goes on but I think you get my point. Unless you were absolutely unskilled at everything, you had no need to go to the big corporations for middle class work until SMBs growth went straight into the shitter.
Stop looking for a handout from large businesses. They do not exist for your benefit and only fools ever thought they did.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 13 2017, @04:43PM
The list goes on but I think you get my point.
Your point seems to be that you have a profoundly weak sense of scale.
Every single one of those businesses typically employee a a couple of dozen people at the most.
There is simply not enough work in those industries to support the level of employment you fantasize about.
As a misanthrope the hardest thing for you to do is to realize that humanity's single greatest strength is its ability to build large-scale social structures. You suck at that, so you think its a weakness. Its really just your weakness.
cue literalism snark harnessed for denial
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday January 14 2017, @12:35AM
You're absolutely correct. Up to a couple dozen middle class jobs each. In every town worth speaking of across the entire nation. Now multiply that by ten or so because I simply couldn't be arsed to list off all of the SMBs that employ middle class workers. Now multiply it again to deal with the size of your town vs. how many can be served per location. Now multiply it again to cover competition within your town. Now realize you were horribly wrong and STFU.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 13 2017, @07:04PM
Cause he's a... BOOTSTRAP HEROOOO
GOT PROFIT IN HIS EYEEEES!