maybe pay your workers a living wage?
Amazon's warehouses pay a fairly decent wage for a warehouse. The one near me has had the effect of taking workers away from all of the other low-rent, high stress jobs, especially the ones that want people with degrees and experience for $10 an hour. Some of the other warehouses around here are paying more than Amazon just to attract workers, and if you can get into maintenance it's not difficult to land 50k a year.
There's a glass foundry in a nearby small city that's always had a lock-in on workers in the area because there wasn't anything else. It's one of those where you have to apprentice for a decade before you're going to earn much more than minimum wage. They're casting their nets a lot farther these days, and I had the pleasure of telling a recruiter that called me that why would I drive an hour to work there for $9 when I can drive 15 minutes and make $15-16 at Amazon? The lady was just kind of dazed in her reply, I imagine she got that a lot.
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