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Purveyor

(29,876 posts) Tue Oct 20, 2015, 11:49 AM Oct 2015

Amazon to Hire 100,000 Temporary Employees for Holiday Ramp-Up

Amazon.com Inc. is hiring 100,000 seasonal workers -- 25 percent more than last year -- as it continues to make online ordering almost as fast as running to the store.

The short-term hires will supplement 90,000 permanent employees at Amazon’s 70 warehouses and shipping hubs around the country to get through the retailer’s busiest quarter, the Seattle-based company said in a statement Tuesday.

Analysts on average expect Amazon to generate $35.1 billion in fourth-quarter revenue, up 20 percent from a year earlier, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

The largest online retailer on Thursday will report third-quarter results, which will include its first Prime Day promotion, a one-day blowout sale in July. Amazon said it sold more products on Prime Day than on Black Friday during last holiday season.

Amazon has expanded same-day delivery to 12 U.S. cities, requiring the company to build new shipping hubs closer to urban areas. It also is delivering meals from restaurants in Seattle and Portland and has created crafts marketplace Amazon Handmade to compete with Etsy Inc. and EBay Inc. as the retailer seeks new revenue sources.

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Amazon to Hire 100,000 Temporary Employees for Holiday Ramp-Up (Original Post) Purveyor Oct 2015 OP

That is a lot of workers yeoman6987 Oct 2015 #1

I saw one of the ads here, for the Hartford service center. Brutal. Atman Oct 2015 #2

Imagine some people are glad to have it around the holidays. Nt Logical Oct 2015 #7

You've got to wonder where all these temporary employees come from. KamaAina Oct 2015 #3

Big portion are Folks who were Wellstone ruled Oct 2015 #8

When I was a young lad, I did seasonal work... Glassunion Oct 2015 #10

Many are students; others are people looking for second or third jobs. Brickbat Oct 2015 #13

I begin at Amazon in two weeks for a seasonal, second-shift warehouse job for some extra money. LanternWaste Oct 2015 #4

how is this new business plan doing for us 99% olddots Oct 2015 #5

I assume we have all read edhopper Oct 2015 #6

A buddy of mine works part time at their central distribution warehouse in Ontario. Initech Oct 2015 #9

I almost applied. Thankfully, there's politics. Atman Oct 2015 #11

I thought about applying for a holiday job. Initech Oct 2015 #12

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)

1. That is a lot of workers

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Tue Oct 20, 2015, 11:51 AM

Oct 2015

Could be the largest amount in the United States ever.

Atman

(31,464 posts)

2. I saw one of the ads here, for the Hartford service center. Brutal.

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Tue Oct 20, 2015, 12:03 PM

Oct 2015

The shifts are mostly overnight, being on call a lot, lots of heavy lifting. Serious grunt job...for about $12/hr. And then you're laid off in January.

Logical

(22,457 posts)

7. Imagine some people are glad to have it around the holidays. Nt

Reply to Atman (Reply #2)

Tue Oct 20, 2015, 12:48 PM

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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)

3. You've got to wonder where all these temporary employees come from.

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Tue Oct 20, 2015, 12:16 PM

Oct 2015

Not just Amazon's, but everybody's. What do they do the rest of the year?

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

8. Big portion are Folks who were

Reply to KamaAina (Reply #3)

Tue Oct 20, 2015, 01:04 PM

Oct 2015

fired for being to damn old and forced to retire and are living out of their R/V's. You will never see this in any of the Corporate Press and Media. Check any R/V Park near any Amazon DC and ask the folks and you will get the surprise of of your life. Have been posting little tid bits about this for some time,there is a huge segment of our Nation that are living the twenty first century version of the Grapes of Wrath. Yes,I have said this before,there are many who live a Nomadic Life Style,and they are a separate segment in it's self and are very well off financially.

Glassunion

(10,201 posts)

10. When I was a young lad, I did seasonal work...

Reply to KamaAina (Reply #3)

Tue Oct 20, 2015, 01:13 PM

Oct 2015

Spring / Summer jobs would be in the vein of: Landscaping, Roofing, Retail down the Shore, etc...
Fall / Winter jobs would be: Christmas Retail, Snow Removal, UPS, etc...

I usually got a jump on applying for my next job well before the current season was over. Most of the time I would not even be out of work.

Brickbat

(19,339 posts)

13. Many are students; others are people looking for second or third jobs.

Reply to KamaAina (Reply #3)

Tue Oct 20, 2015, 02:10 PM

Oct 2015

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)

4. I begin at Amazon in two weeks for a seasonal, second-shift warehouse job for some extra money.

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Tue Oct 20, 2015, 12:17 PM

Oct 2015

I begin at the new Amazon center in ft Worth in two weeks for a seasonal, second-shift warehouse job for some extra holiday money. Nine, 35-hour weeks (natch) loading and unloading trucks. Easy, brainless money for the same thing I did in college, but paid a wee bit more...

olddots

(10,237 posts)

5. how is this new business plan doing for us 99%

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Tue Oct 20, 2015, 12:20 PM

Oct 2015

edhopper

(33,599 posts)

6. I assume we have all read

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Tue Oct 20, 2015, 12:25 PM

Oct 2015

The Grapes of Wrath.

Initech

(100,090 posts)

9. A buddy of mine works part time at their central distribution warehouse in Ontario.

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Tue Oct 20, 2015, 01:08 PM

Oct 2015

He said it's just about the most mind numbing, miserable job out there. No thanks.

Atman

(31,464 posts)

11. I almost applied. Thankfully, there's politics.

Reply to Initech (Reply #9)

Tue Oct 20, 2015, 01:27 PM

Oct 2015

I thought, wth...a short drive, some extra dough. Then I heard all of the horror stories about working for Amazon.

Then the freelance jobs started rolling in. It's political season. My previous employer (laid me off after the last election cycle) is now hiring me as a contractor. I work from home, I get direct deposit paychecks. Screw Amazon.

Initech

(100,090 posts)

12. I thought about applying for a holiday job.

Reply to Atman (Reply #11)

Tue Oct 20, 2015, 02:03 PM

Oct 2015

But after what my friend was saying, no dice. I think Black Friday retail would be the less stressful job in this case.

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