I lived next to a Whole Foods back before Amazon, and I had shopped there for special item for more than decade before that. The variety and novelty of the products has disappeared, and the employees all look just as frustrated as any other chain store, but the presence of these harried e-commerce shoppers has made the store un-shoppable. I don't go to WF at all now because I repeatedly had to physically stop these shoppers from running a cart over my toddler who was walking next to me. Even without a child there were e-com shoppers constantly trying to rush ahead or reach over me while I was shopping. What used to be a pleasant and relaxed store with fun and tasty products is now bland, abrasive, and at times dangerous.
As a former Whole Foods employee I can wholeheartedly say not a single lie was told here. Excellent work. I would have added that Amazon essentially bought Whole Foods for free. If I remember correctly they paid in cash and Amazon stock- the price of which rose post purchase to cover what they spent. The entire company has effectively turned into a data mining operation. I hope these guys win their contract.
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Who even shops or works here anymore? Yeah i love paying $25 for a pint of peanut butter. Do me a favor and get everybody to mass quit across the country right after the union forms. Then walk acrosa the street nd get a.job at Trader Joes or Chick fil a. WTF people... "jeff bezoz so rich and predatory and oppressing WAH but nobody on planet earth can resist from ordering 20 things a day from Amazon. Quit the job and work for an institution that you like instead of improving their public image for them by getting better treatment. You'll be fired THE MINUTE they can replace you with a set of robot arms anyway. jeez
well i appreciate the hard work you put in for the customers, a true american hero. Hey did you know the NFL = WWE? Also do me a favor and look up Jack Parsons for me, did you know NASA and Scientology are connected?
Maybe large corporations, I've worked at small business and its really different. At my current job they actually send bonus to everyone when profits come in.
As a former union member at AT&T, I can appreciate the benefits I had due to the members who fought before me. Best wishes to you all demanding BASIC pay & rights.
I agree. I was happy spending a little more for some fruit that wasn’t damaged, yet now I am just spending more. It is difficult to find independent grocery stores or food markets. The closest I have seen in my area are international markets. It would be nice to have specialty grocery stores like in Europe (ie. fish markets, bread shops, and bakeries in a centralized downtown).
@@arayan83079I live in a larger suburb of Tennessee, we also don’t have anything even remotely resembling a “local grocery store”. We have a seasonal outdoor farmers market that only happens on weekends, it is located in the downtown area where parking on the weekends will cost at minimum $20/hr.
wont happen.. robots are already replacing pickers... thousands of people per state picking fulltime will be a robot from 1 of 3 companies now... by 2026.
NO business wants to "create positive change for the world." When a company gets as big as Amazon, they want to keep things status quo. What does "positive change" even mean? 'Positive' is SO subjective.
The only time I ever got to talk with my company's CEO was when I worked RT doing BHIS with minors. They did what they called "focus groups" trying to figure out why our facility was having so many issues. When I told him about a recent (at the time) situation when I was held against my will by my supervisor as a client escaped and tried to force her way to me after I was barred by management from having any contact with her (long, incredibly stupid story short, even psych has no self-awareness or concept of confirmation bias even after evidence is provided), causing Romeo and Juliet syndrome to manifest, the only time he showed any emotion or registered what I said was when I repeated satements from another staff and inadvertently implied they cussed in front of this client. CEOs aren't even human.
If you have a concern, address it during a meeting with other employees. If a member of management tries to stop you and wants to discuss it later, remind them of the open door policy and continue in front of everyone else.
Exactly, lol they could be any Corp and it’s the same, this is nothing insightful nor new. My question would be how much do you think you should make stocking shelves, etc, these job require almost nothing to do. Should they be paid more sure but let’s get realistic too.
@@AmergedinA jobs value isn’t defined by how difficult it is, rather the amount of money that it brings to the company. And besides that, the best paying jobs in the world require little to no labor and are held by people who did nothing to deserve them outside of being born to the right family. I don’t expect companies to care about me personally. I don’t care about them either. But I expect them to pay well, offer good benefits, and treat me with dignity and respect.
@@quikkdraww Eloquent, no lies were told and I share the sentiment but I am just curious as to what that number would be? What is the new minimum wage in 2024 in a world where millions are not made in a life time but in hours. What is the worth of the least of us per hour of life? And will they agree to it… or continue to horde. Your tone feels as though you mistake my curiosity for a position.
A company cannot care. Companies are not people. It's the people in the company who can care but they're not allowed when everything and everyone is beholden to shareholders
I used to work in produce and I remember this had this made in house product called 'Spa Water'. I would watch them in the back fill bottles of tap water from the same sink used to clean dishes and put a mint leaf and a few slices of cucumber in the bottle and sell it for $5.99. The crazy thing is people would actually buy it. I wanted to tell customers the truth but I was afraid of losing my job.
When I worked in the cut fruit department we would take the rotting moldy fruit that was spoiling off the shelves re cut it and sell it as cut fruit packages. It was gross and it felt dishonest I didn't stay there very long, They called it "minimizing waste"
I remember the spa water thing. They'd put anything in there... I saw asparagus a few times. The implication on the customer end was that it was spring water; the fact it was just out of the tap isn't surprising though.
@@Van-nk4eecutting of fruit that has imperfections isn’t a Whole Foods thing all grocery stores do that if you go to Albertsons or krogers or even Aldi their cut fruit is food that has been cut around. The reason is that the food is edible the parts cut are not but the entire fruit doesn’t need to be tossed. Customers are paying for the labor spent to cut fruit if it was a whole fruit you’d be paying that price. Even in a bag of oranges or blueberries you’ll be bound to eventually get some that are spoiled or have imperfections.
How much were you getting paid to be scared to lose that job? I’m assuming not much. How unemployable are you that you’re scared to lose a minimal-paying job? I know life is tough and I’m broke af too but I just don’t understand people being scared of losing their highly replaceable job.
there comes a time when we have to realize expecting every company's employees to unionize separately is unfeasible. companies need to be forced to act morally through regulation. even if every company in america unionized, new ones would pop up that find a way to prevent unions, and that would allow them to generate profit quicker, which would get them more shareholders, and eventually they would take over the market and all employees/customers would be forced to use them instead. we're already all part of a union, it's called the united states. yet we voted to let the corporations decide the rules, and we have no power to stop them.
I agree. We need more laws protecting workers. None of us should have to leave our basic human rights at the home when we work through the door of a corporation.
@@ohiasdxfcghbljokasdjhnfvaw4ehr Generally, the Republicans don't want to allow unions. The Repubs have the majority in many states and they also gerrymander to get their way with our votes.
@@bzh7648we have shop unions in the UK... As a whole they do what the supermarkets say... They help in individual cases, but as far as big decisions nope. I know how stressful this way of working is, as I've been in this situation from a bad employer. It made me really ill, these companies are psychopaths.
Never been to Amazon or whole foods. Now I see no need to give them my business in the future either. Love the small business grocery stores, shops, flea markets and farmers' roadside stands. Grateful for those places 🙏
“Work faster faster faster!!” Why is Amazon so obsessed with speed? You’re already a successful company. All this does is make me want to buy my stuff elsewhere. Sadly, we are in an oligopoly where all these major supermarkets treat their staff horribly
As consumers we need to spend our dollars wisely if we want to live in a fair and equitable world. If workers want a union and the corporation fights it I won’t shop there any more. Corporations are not for the people. They only care about profit, period. That’s why our dollars can be quite powerful if, we the people, stick together.
Folks wouldn't boycott Amazon back when they fired Chris Smalls, who went on to lead the Amazon worker's union. They sure as hell aren't gonna stop shopping at WF. When eating high-quality food that is raised right matters to you, your only supermarket choices in this area are WF, Sprouts or Fresh Market. No one will get the yuppies to boycott WF.
If the choice is between Wal-Mart, Target, Wild Oats, Whole Foods, and Kroger..... .. which evil do you choose? What makes them better than the rest? (Hint: they are all the same)
@@chernobyl169 The bottom line for me is that is there's no place else where I can get what I need, I'll shop at the place that I know has it. Which would be WF. I boycotted Amazon for 2 yrs. during Covid, but I might have been the only one in my group.
The biggest problem with that is everyone has to eat. So unless you're going to grow all your own food, it's not that feasible to boycott grocery stores for most people.
Have they ever NOT become corrupt just like any other large institution? People missing the real point here and that is that all value is being sucked out of money so fast that EVEN THE LARGEST evil corporations cant keep up with it and are revealed to be abusing people when theyre trying to keep up with the plummeting value of the dollar. Not sure when wages were literallly not the VERY LAST thing to rise in response to inflation, in my lifetime at least, but i'd really love to hear about it.... seriously like all the backbreaking work these people do and.... ok...welll give you guys a 25 cent raise every 8 months with this new contract.Wow.. that's a GREAT START. Literally $2 a day? SUCKERS. Start your own thing, move out of the toxic city, find the people who have hearts and minds. Or you serve the rich and their ridiculous whims indefinately. Pretty sure we all know that deep down guys
I used to work at Whole Foods in Vancouver Canada before. THE WORST experience. Toxic co-workers, toxic employers. McDonals where I worked during my high school times was way better.
Glad you had a job, someone has to do the collating etc. I know you weren't probably part of the policy making but your knowledge (given anonymously if you like) would go a long way to helping those still stuck working under that scrutiny. Not everyone has to strike or be on the picket line -- the knowledge you have can be your way of helping 🤞💜
Well... they fulfill your food needs. But I get where you're coming from. They love using different words for something that already exists and make it look as if it was something different or friendlier but it's a linguistic façade. It has a specific name but I forgot what it was called. It's used on News and by big corporations in general.
This isn’t just Whole Foods it’s big corporations period! Gone are the days of employee appreciation due to the shortage of smaller companies and compassionate employers.
Worked at Whole Foods while in college and for about a year and a half after graduating. They didn't train me on the register until three weeks after I started, so I collected baskets for eight hours each day. COVID hit right after I graduated, and I worked through the thick of it. One of the worst experiences of my life. They refused to acknowledge that COVID was even a thing at first and wouldn't let employees wear masks because they didn't want to 'start a panic'. Corporate raised wages by a dollar for about six months so people wouldn't riot and then dropped it. Had enough one day, walked out and never went back. The people I worked with were some of the most hardworking, kindest people you'd ever meet. It's disgusting how poorly corporate treats everyone. We had to take anti-union training modules, which were framed as 'we think you don't need a union because we care about our employees' needs.' I can only imagine how much worse it's gotten since I left.
Man it sounds like it got worse even from when I quit to when you started. Then you'd talk to the real old-timers, the people who'd been there over a decade, and they'd describe a completely different company.
I knew a guy who worked there until the Amazon buyout and his entire RANK as a supervisor was eliminated. He wasn't laid off, because then Amazon would have had to pay Unemployment, so they invented ridiculous reasons to write-up everyone in the company who shared that rank, forcing them to quit or be fired for "incompetence." Jeff Bezos is a saint. (sarcasm)
I am definitely Republican and right wing, no doubt about it but my dad has worked at a local grocery store chain in St Louis for 45 years, and is in the UFCW Union. I remember going on strike with him back in 03, that was a wild time. He still works a few days a week, but has great benefits and a pension. He feels if he completely retires, he will lose purpose in his life. I am all for workers getting better pay and benefits from companies who can afford it. I'm a trucker and the teamsters used to be a massive union, covering most truckers, but sadly a major company closed a couple years ago called Yellow Roadway Carriers (YRC freight) , which was union, and a lot of what killed that company was excessive demands from the teamsters that the company just couldn't afford. Towards the end, they had one of the worst fleets in the road. I think the decision to unionize needs to be made on a company by company basis. Just because your company has great profits and a ton of employees doesn't mean working conditions will improve because they choose to go union. You might even be risking your own livelihood because companies who are very much against unionizing might just close the location in question just to avoid setting a precedent for the rest of the company, leaving everyone worse off especially the community.
I am definitely Republican and right wing, no doubt about it but my dad has worked at a local grocery store chain in St Louis for 45 years, and is in the UFCW Union. I remember going on strike with him back in 03, that was a wild time. He still works a few days a week, but has great benefits and a pension. He feels if he completely retires, he will lose purpose in his life. I am all for workers getting better pay and benefits from companies who can afford it. I'm a trucker and the teamsters used to be a massive union, covering most truckers, but sadly a major company closed a couple years ago called Yellow Roadway Carriers (YRC freight) , which was union, and a lot of what killed that company was excessive demands from the teamsters that the company just couldn't afford. Towards the end, they had one of the worst fleets in the road. I think the decision to unionize needs to be made on a company by company basis. Just because your company has great profits and a ton of employees doesn't mean working conditions will improve because they choose to go union. You might even be risking your own livelihood because companies who are very much against unionizing might just close the location in question just to avoid setting a precedent for the rest of the company, leaving everyone worse off especially the community.
Whole Foods used to be a company where employees rarely left. Not anymore. Its been equally disappointing for consumers too. Food quality has drastically declined. Should have never sold themselves.🤦
My store had a bi-weekly auditor that always said he were never good enough. Then one day they gave us a pizza party to say we were the only store in Illinois to reach their standards.
That pizza party was paid out of the wages they kept from workers. What a lame way to pretend to reward good employees. I'm sure that helped everyone with their bills.
Whole Foods was a terrible employer fifteen years ago when they were an independent competitor to Wild Oats in the still-budding natural and organic food market. All that imagery of being the healthy future was disguising the same corporate culture of worker exploitation you get at Wal-Mart.
I shop at Walmart often, for years. I don't see the workers killing themselves. I see them doing their jobs at a normal pace. Sometimes I see them stopping and having a chat amongst themselves and a laugh. I've never seen a supervisor walk up and scold them for their speed or chatting with a fellow employee. I shop in NJ and Pa. Walmarts. They even employ disabled workers at the front doors as greeters and receipt checkers. BTW, these jobs are not necessarily meant to be jobs you take to support a family by yourself.
I work at Whole Foods and Amazon is all about metrics. Every time the CEO starts spouting off customers love this or that, he is flat out distorting the crap us workers have to deal with.
Unions are the answer for workers almost universally. In my job I actually work the same job at different facilities. The ones that are unionized I make 60% more money. I have also in the past been a part of two other unions. When the CEO says he wants a direct connection to workers basically that is code for we don't want to pay you more
This video just made me aware of something I do and have done which I didn't think was a big deal but now I know it is. I am a senior disabled person (legally blind/Deaf) and when I shop at W or WF or wherever, I can NEVER find someone to assist me if I need to find something or read something for me (another thing they've done cutting employees to service the floor). So I ask the online shopper person who is always present now. Not thinking they are being surveilled or even have a time quota. They of course are very nice and do assist me (I have yet to meet one who refuses) but it never dawned on me that I am cutting into their squeezed time making their job that much more stressed. I really despise what corporations have done to our world (and the politicians who give them the power to do whatever they want). I'm old enough to remember pre-1980's shopping and it was a whole different world where customers and workers had a symbiosis relationship that was wonderful. Corporations drive was to make customers happy, profit came from that.
The drive for increa$ing profit is putting pressure on the bottom row of workers in the organization. Its funny that the 'boot' always squeezes down like that. I wander if there is another way?
@@darkbit1001 LOL. How about the "boot" kicking upward into the ass of the bosses. But personally I am trying to be more conscience of how I act and respond to the worker. Always assume there is a reason. Esp. not take things personally and they may have a very good reason they can't help.But then I wouldn't be so frustrated to start off with if businesses would hire more staff so I don't have to spend an 1/2 hr hunting for someone....esp. ones who speak English (Walmart being the worst offenders).
As a former worker there (before the era of the online shopping person) I can say that whether or not you interrupted their timed work, they would never have fulfilled their quota anyway. While I was there, the shifts went from "hectic but if you hustle you can get everything on the checklist" to "you will never get all the things done that are required of you." At least I could connect with the occasional customer like you who was polite, kind, and didn't take my servitude for granted.
Not an option for most. My community's new food co-op took ten years to get off of the ground, and we will see if it can succeed. I only shop there. So grateful. The staff and customers know each other by name. It is a community. Do support yours if you have that option.
I have local farmers markets but they're extremely expensive. 99% of people can not afford it, which is actually the goal. Squeeze everybody dry, and you have what we have now. Actual fascism, not the "omg trump is a fascist" like actual fascism where companies and the government are working as one.
Worked at Whole Foods from 2005-2018 in many different west coast stores, and in my experience it was super fun. Met a lot of great people at work (coworkers and customers alike), always have a job no matter which state I lived in. I was making a few dollars above everyone else in the industry. Left just shortly after Amazon bought it, and everyone who worked there said it sucks now.
@@TimeFlies-d8byes…yes it is and again whole world aside from Whole Foods Sprouts is growing and amazing I have bought one thing from Amazon in the past year and some there are stores all around you and there are companies that make those goods to be sold on Amazon. Amazon just barely got into being the one to produce its own goods.
That young man is so right about the open door policy. WOW I’ve never thought of it like that. Stay together and fight together, we are more than them and we will win
Agreed. We have a tough road ahead. People who are committed to dismantling the government have just been re-elected. Why do you think Elon and Bezos are buddies right now?
Enough people need to do it. Most of us only know how to blindly consume while saying "I only care about me and mine". That rugged mindset is what got us here.
Aww hush you air head . They can go get a new job. This is what reality would be like with yall socialist society mut head. If you don't like it then just go. Why do people sit and cry in misery
I hope you guys get a union. I want to shop where workers are paid and happy. I feel very uncomfortable shopping these days. I think online shopping allows us to ignore the face of the real workers. Same as eating modern meat. It doesn't look a thing like the animal and is transformed in ways that obfuscate the fact someone slaughtered a living animal so we could pleasure ourselves. If we can do that in mass it's no wonder people like Jeff can just crap on his employees. 😢
I am sometimes in WF office buildings for work and wanted to point out that their higher level computer office workers (idk what those titles are) seem very happy with their pay and benefits, as well as the "company culture". I am not singing their praises, just pointing out this is also a class issue. Lower paid & "lower skilled" (as they are referred to despite often having plenty of skills and experience) workers are deprioritized and exploited almost everywhere in this country and it is a huge problem.
Precisely. The issue isn't with corporate. It is their customer facing workers who actually fulfill orders and supply and sell goods in stores. This dynamic is especially common in biotech.
I was a software engineer for Amazon for a few years, there is an issue with the work culture in corporate: they abuse the employees but pay them high enough to not only accept the abuse but pass it on down the line to the frontline workers. They also love hiring people on work visas since they are much less likely to leave for fear of being deported, this keeps the working conditions down and creates a culture of fear and cruelty. They had irresponsible hiring practices (competing for headcount with other big tech for no real reason) which led to unnecessary layoffs throughout the company a couple years ago. They claim they need to “be more lean” despite rising profits. If they had profit then they didn’t need to lay off anyone and they don’t need to underpay and squeeze frontliners until they get hurt physically and mentally. They have a program that is ostensibly meant to train warehouse associates and other frontliners to get into the tech part of the business - we had one on our team, she was a hard worker - but guess who was first to get laid off… the one who spent years with the company and followed all the rules to move up only to be kicked down again, she didn’t even get her old frontline job back
The perks are nice in the offices but honestly the job security is not. The company cut 1/3 of its regions recently where do you think those regional or global jobs went?
@@RayPointerChannel Honestly, I wonder what groceries aren't scummy. I avoid Kroger, Whole Foods, and (of course Walmart). Who's left other than regional shops? I tend towards Meijer, but it's only in the Midwest and I even sideeye it there too, since just because I haven't heard much bad, doesn't mean it's not there.
Being poor is not good or helpful either. It's hard to boycott or have a choice if people are poor. I've seen comments say they know Temu or Walmart is bad but they didn't have a choice but to shop there because they were poor.
No reason to frame this as a uniquely Whole Foods problem, although it’s certainly exacerbated by Amazon ownership. The entire system of Western capitalism is falling down this hole. You are no longer an investable person as a worker, you are a soulless commodity to be used and discarded.
Yep, Walmart kept saying how I did the work of 4 people but when I finished my first year there during Covid as an essential worker they gave me a 20 cent “raise” while groceries bought at Walmart went up 25%. The 10% WM associate discount doesn’t apply to grocery items…
Literally every single business since Covid. Profits have gotten used to skeletal crews. And when I worked as a MIT/AGM in the grocery stores (another chain) we were already seeing the management philosophy of “if you get everything done in a day, you’re not pushing hard enough”, as one of my store managers said. But still, it’s everywhere. In doctors offices, hospitals. Have you ever walked into a Walgreens before? There’s like one person in the whole store.
As someone working in healthcare, i agree. God forbid you go over your 40 hrs because you’re trying to get as many patients coordinated or the assistance they need navigating care. “F the patients if it means we have to pay you more because we’re too greedy and spineless to properly staff our hospitals” shareholders or some bizworm
Going 3 years now without giving Amazon a penny. I don't have an Amazon account anymore, and spend the 10 extra minutes to go to a small family grocery store. I know it's tough peeps and the convenience is nice but these companies treat people like trash and we need to make these companies hurt.
Try living somewhere where all the small grocery stores have been run out of the city... There are are lot of places where people don't have that luxury😢
there are no small family grocery stores by me, and that’s the reality for millions of Americans. we don’t use chains because we’re lazy and can’t do a ten minute trip to the store. that is a lie that you’ve just made up and believe. we use chains because that’s all we have. it is not a sign of moral inferiority.
My husband used to work at Whole Foods, it was horrific how they treated him. When he finally had an out, he hesitated because he felt bad leaving his teammates who would inevitably have to compensate for the work he’d leave behind. It’s so toxic and cruel. It makes me resent the wealthy people who shop there.
That sentiment is common at amazon warehouses, too. People are encouraged to overwork themselves to help out their overworked coworkers. Amazon very much encourages the “we are family” mentality, but only because it leads to higher output that seems like “just helping my coworkers” to the worker.
Nah, we won't care about 1-2 people that can only find food at Whole Foods. We care about workers' rights. And if you cared about your survival, you'd want this sort of company to not choke the market and be the only one that is able to supply you with what you need, but consoomer brain rot comes in many ways
@@CaliNic30 don’t even try to suggest that the suffering of employees of a universally hated corporate monstrosity is a fair trade off for defective genes.
I worked at Wholefoods in seattle from 2004 to 2008. During that time the company went public. I honestly think that it was a really good place to work then. I remember hearing amazonbought it and I was like...damn I bet it's gonna start sucking to work there
I was working in one in California when the purchase went through. I can tell you that the company had already changed to where most workers knew it would be worse but not really that different.
Service workers like those in this video keep the world running, yet they are paid pennies compared to the CEO who does nothing. This is why unions are important. Best of luck to them!
I've had a Whole Foods store in my area for a few years but I've avoided it because of the bad vibe the place gave me, this tells me why that place has such a vibe.
Their palm pay bs creeps me out. They are clearly conditioning the masses for the coming system of technocratic control people like Bezos have in mind for us.
@@soninalphin2771 I'm so sick of this platform hiding comments. Hit the stupid newest tab if you want to see my other one I left. This one will probably get hidden too though.
I worked at Chipotle for 4 years. You guys absolutely need to do this on them. I worked from new hire to GM over 5 stores, it’s pretty awful. Dig into it lads
Agreed! My daughter got hired a few months back at a brand new location that was opening and left within a month. Horrible toxic environment, quick, inadequate training followed by unrealistic expectations and speed metrics (complete with threats of being written up) for a whopping $14 per hr. She was over it immediately and I fully supported her decision.
My favorite thing to ask: "So if you have all these crazy metrics for low level employees, what are your metrics for managers and up?" It's usually followed by a long silence. These jackasses demand every second of an employee's time be maximized while their days work involves sending a few emails.
I was an associate store team leader or WFM for years. I worked very long hours under a great deal of pressure. After my days off I might have 400 emails and that was the very least of my responsibilities. The metrics pressure, short staffing, food safety regulations , constant interaction with team members and customers, no hr support, constant work orders for repairs. During COVID I regularly worked 16 hour days ( on salary, no ot). I finally quit 3 years ago. I had had enough.
@@beckyheinz7337 true but they do have a lot of responsibility and they are salaried. No ot and have to be available 24 hours a day 7 days a week. The company can also move you to any store they like within a certain distance. I was at one store I loved ten minutes from my apartment and suddenly ( one weeks notice) I'm commuting over an hour for the next three years. I'm speaking about store leadership. Dept managers are paid hourly and can't be moved.
@@beckyheinz7337honestly for the hours they work I doubt it’s considered a fair salary. Hourly team members and hourly leadership gets paid overtime or holiday pay. A salary person just works, no one thinks about the person that gets the call at 3am after working until 11 and has to get up get to the store fix the problem go home wake up again and still open the store. At least hourly team members can leave work at work.
The metrics for leadership is harder then for a team member, you are expected to have UPH, IPM in your roles leadership is responsible for those plus INF, PDOR, UPLH, Labor, and many more just from front end and ecomm leadership alone. Product teams have other metrics that they have to follow plus hiring staffing training and filling an entire department along with promotional change outs marketing and building and filling departments. Team leadership is responsible for food safety metrics and accountability of team members.
I worked at Whole Foods in 2010, way before Amazon took over. We were constantly made to watch videos about how to handle abusive customers. They didn’t help. Worst customers by far of any retail job I ever worked. And insane levels of micromanagement.
When Whole Foods opened in Oakland, CA, it was awesome. Great prepared food selection: salads, hot foods, pizza, tacos, smoothies, etc. These days I go to one outside Seattle. It's nice enough. I can tell you I don't go there for the employees, lol. They have quality food. The hot food & salad bar are good, not great. I really hope they unionize.
If you get injured at work & they won't let you go, that's probably false imprisonment. Call 911 get the cops there get someone arrested get a police report call a lawyer.
I worked at MOMs from 2013-2016, Rockville and Arlington. Unfortunately we started seeing a little of this philosophy start coming down in management. Not to the same level as described here, but yes, MOMs is the still the best of a bunch. I miss it sometimes, but unfortunately I needed a real job paying living wages.
As long as people are willing to work for money there will continue to be neglected workers. They solution should probably be to refuse to use money or spend as little money as possible until the money problem is solved.
This is 100% the experience of Whole Foods. After Amazon bought it, Whole Foods and the culture was literally eviscerated. The people I enjoyed talking to for YEARS- are no longer working there. Amazon has literally destroyed the brand. CUSTOMERS SEE IT AND FEEL IT TOO.
@ 100% accurate. This is the same dehumanizing approach people like Musk and Ramaswamy will attempt to drive into literally every business and interpersonal interaction we have. It’s like forcing a form of autistic interaction onto the entirety of US society. This will lead to deeper erosion of human culture. Bezos, Musk and their ilk must be stopped.
@ and now we have a sh*tty version of Walmart where the shelves often go unstocked and the employees are disconnected from customers. Whole Foods used to have a positive vibe and a friendly environment - now it is a sad, dystopian desert staffed by people who aren’t even remotely connected to the people who shop there.
As expensive as Whole Foods is and they don’t treat their workers well!! WTF! Grocery workers are essential workers and should be treated with respect.
My bike's tires were found slashed each time I returned to it outside of Whole Foods. My request to the store manager to review surveillance videos was rejected. I think their nefarious security guard was complicit in these capers. I say NO to Whole Foods.
I'm impressed with your forward thinking. Once Amazon purchased whole foods, I completely stopped shopping there for a number of reasons. I never shared my view with anyone. I didn't want to bad mouth whole foods. I went in a few months ago, it looked like a ghost town. I asked one employee what's going on. He quietly said the store doesn't have enough workers. I noticed the shelves and premade food is nearly non-existent. Thankfully we have a local chain market that looks like WFs was in it's hay day. Best of all this chain of six markets is EMPLOYEE OWNED. I'm so glad to see employees who appreciate their jobs and have been there since the opening of the first store. I wish you all the best with unionizing in Pennsylvania, you all deserve every bit of respect and good wages.💙💙💙
Right - as a former worker/manager in a large corporate retail business, it was exactly the same - glossy printed words for workers and customers to be impressed with...and every measure of how workers were treated (and customers were helped) fell so far below those wonderful words as to be ludicrous. Corporations are NOT people (the Supreme Court was WRONG). Corporations of massive scale all play loose with the truth. They cut their own throats by cutting their employees to the bone...unable, not unwilling, to take care of the customer. Corporations are investing heavily in robotics. They will replace a machine when they wear it out. They treat their human workers the same. These corporations invite retaliation via unions. We only have to look to our history to see it being repeated - big business squashing its workers in the blind march to profits.
I used to worked at WF back in 1993 - it was so hippy dippy and fun. I would only assume, once corporate got a hold of it, it became just another chain supermarket.
I worked at Whole Foods before and after they were bought by Amazon (two different time periods). The first time was 2013-2015 and it was great, they cared about the workers and it showed. When I came back in 2019, there was no soul, and whereas before, people were happy, after Amazon, it was like working with zombies. Good for those folks unionizing, that’s the only way they will learn.
Sounds like working at Walmart. I’ve never been treated worse. The management talked to us like dogs. No respect. No pay. No point in working there. No thanks.
Vote with your dollars! I'm starting to exit anything Amazon that I possibly can. It's more possible now that Shopify has the shop app making it easier than ever to buy from Mom and Pop sites instead with much better service.
I used to be a regular shopper but the food quality is not what it used to be either. I haven't set foot in one for years and can't see ever going back.
When I saw the title I thought it was about all the hidden poisons, antibiotics, water, GM, and lack of nutrition, in US unprocessed food : just as bad though.
I live in Austin and I remember going to the original Whole Foods it was incredible back 15+ years ago they had restaurants inside now they have nothing compared to that time. Even the pizza has gone down in quality. I cannot shop in the produce and meat section not just from an affordable standpoint but because the stuff just isn’t good like at all the employees are the best part and I’m sure pretty soon they won’t even have that. When I see a shopper I usually get the F out of the way because I knew this I wish more people would do the same. Unfortunately people love Amazon and Whole Foods for that convenience but the reality is someone is always getting squeezed on the other side of the business.
Amazon often pays competitively, but they have extremely unrealistic expectations of their workers so it’s not worth it at all. Get paid a bit more for doing 3x the work in the same amount of time is just not right. Note that competitive wages is NOT always a livable wage. It’s often $1-2 more an hour than their competition for entry level positions. Early in my job as a supervisor at a walgreens my boss told me that i can’t expect everyone to work as fast as me and it’s MY job to learn their pace and plan and time manage accordingly. Amazon just doesn’t give a crap about that. They just want max numbers all the time. And honestly if someone can hit the numbers they expect for some positions they could easily get a job that pays more elsewhere for many positions. So that means that amazon is likely only attracting workers who aren’t at the level they expect based on the pay they offer and then they work them to sometimes death. I just wish they set expectations better and more up front upon hiring. Also when you go faster than you are comfortable you make more mistakes so it’s not a smart move on amazon’s part but i get it, they just wanna weed out the ones who aren’t up to their standards, but eventually you just run out of people to hire. So it’s a lose lose game imo.
This is nothing new. This is how most businesses treat their unskilled employees, and it gets worse the bigger the business is. To your employer, you are a machine they are renting.
When will we as a people/society get over the facade of business and business people? Business leadership in America is all about "what's good enough for me is not for thee." When it comes to employees and even customers. We have really fallen.
A friend of mine worked for Whole Foods before and after Amazon bought it. He said that things were worse after Amazon bought the franchise. It went from a hip and healthy supermarket to a mindless and soulless machine. He's a supervisor at a small supermarket now, and he's actually happier.
I went to a Whole Foods the other day because I had a terrible headache and decided suddenly just to get food to try to relieve it. I almost got bumped into several times by employees who were almost running through the aisles, and it was clear that they were avoiding any possible conversation with customers who might be trying to find something. The cashiers seemed obviously unhappy. I hate going there and I really hope they're successful at unionizing before Bezos replaces everyone with robots or something.
I worked as a shopper at a midwest grocery chain (Hy-Vee) when I was in college. Paid a lot less than these guys get, but this was also in a town of 22,000 in South Dakota. Over the two years I was there, they never raised the UPH though. It was 75 for the whole time I was there. Every once in a while the lady from corporate would show up and was super mean to everyone. Our shopping manager was a super nice lady, and this corpo-chick would come in and tell her to be more strict, despite our manager explaining that she wouldn't have staff at all if she was mean (she was right, we were short-staffed for most of the time I was there). There was never any talk of a union, mainly because most of us were college kids and would be in and out of there in a few years. Hope these workers win and demand a 22 dollar an hour starting wage.
Whole Foods sucks since being bought by Amazon
Absolutely!
No more christmas decorations or even music.
Don't think I've shopped there since then.
@@SirDydimus86 same here.
I lived next to a Whole Foods back before Amazon, and I had shopped there for special item for more than decade before that. The variety and novelty of the products has disappeared, and the employees all look just as frustrated as any other chain store, but the presence of these harried e-commerce shoppers has made the store un-shoppable. I don't go to WF at all now because I repeatedly had to physically stop these shoppers from running a cart over my toddler who was walking next to me. Even without a child there were e-com shoppers constantly trying to rush ahead or reach over me while I was shopping. What used to be a pleasant and relaxed store with fun and tasty products is now bland, abrasive, and at times dangerous.
As a former Whole Foods employee I can wholeheartedly say not a single lie was told here. Excellent work. I would have added that Amazon essentially bought Whole Foods for free. If I remember correctly they paid in cash and Amazon stock- the price of which rose post purchase to cover what they spent. The entire company has effectively turned into a data mining operation. I hope these guys win their contract.
i'm the guy that came up with weed 'em and reap. i published it on kvraudio where every producer/creative would have been at the time in a list of metathesis, such as "whack and blight," which this nation has failed to adopt as insightful quippage. that's my clever nicked by a twit.
Who even shops or works here anymore? Yeah i love paying $25 for a pint of peanut butter. Do me a favor and get everybody to mass quit across the country right after the union forms. Then walk acrosa the street nd get a.job at Trader Joes or Chick fil a. WTF people... "jeff bezoz so rich and predatory and oppressing WAH but nobody on planet earth can resist from ordering 20 things a day from Amazon. Quit the job and work for an institution that you like instead of improving their public image for them by getting better treatment. You'll be fired THE MINUTE they can replace you with a set of robot arms anyway. jeez
I think they allowed to Amazon buy whole food for the every reason whole foods promise to label the food that are artificial and GMO let that sink in.
well i appreciate the hard work you put in for the customers, a true american hero.
Hey did you know the NFL = WWE?
Also do me a favor and look up Jack Parsons for me, did you know NASA and Scientology are connected?
@@alexisguerrero7551what do you mean??
I love how this generation is exposing all the greed and gaslighting. Technology is allowing transparency and its needed
Exactly why they’re getting rid of TikTok smh
Yea if Twitter didn’t get bought by Elon and TikTok ban having a backup. We’d lose huge power of info sharing.
Any company that calls their employees "team members" is already trying to spin the BS.
Yep
Or “family.”
Maybe large corporations, I've worked at small business and its really different. At my current job they actually send bonus to everyone when profits come in.
Disney calls everyone “cast members”
"Team member" is old BS. Now it's "Associate"....like if you are part of their golf club.
As a former union member at AT&T, I can appreciate the benefits I had due to the members who fought before me. Best wishes to you all demanding BASIC pay & rights.
Whole Foods quality has declined. I’d rather spend money supporting local grocery stores, farmers markets and bakeries.
Amen! Support Local Farmers! 🙌
I agree. I was happy spending a little more for some fruit that wasn’t damaged, yet now I am just spending more. It is difficult to find independent grocery stores or food markets. The closest I have seen in my area are international markets. It would be nice to have specialty grocery stores like in Europe (ie. fish markets, bread shops, and bakeries in a centralized downtown).
@@Kenneth.j105 I live in LA. What are these “local grocery stores” you speak of :(
@@arayan83079I live in a larger suburb of Tennessee, we also don’t have anything even remotely resembling a “local grocery store”. We have a seasonal outdoor farmers market that only happens on weekends, it is located in the downtown area where parking on the weekends will cost at minimum $20/hr.
I agree, definitely not the same.
Excellent journalism. Keep holding these companies accountable
wont happen.. robots are already replacing pickers... thousands of people per state picking fulltime will be a robot from 1 of 3 companies now... by 2026.
robots will replace pickers.. i know it well
Accountable for what?
@@dertythegrower eventually, robots will replace surgeons as well. It’s destined.
@@karahon2191exploiting labor.
Just off the top of my head.
Every CEO says the same shit about "open doors" having a "direct connection" to employees. It is always bullshit.
NO business wants to "create positive change for the world." When a company gets as big as Amazon, they want to keep things status quo. What does "positive change" even mean? 'Positive' is SO subjective.
open door is just so they can single you out after
Door is open to tell on yourself and you'll become directly connected to the unemployment line. ;)
The only time I ever got to talk with my company's CEO was when I worked RT doing BHIS with minors. They did what they called "focus groups" trying to figure out why our facility was having so many issues. When I told him about a recent (at the time) situation when I was held against my will by my supervisor as a client escaped and tried to force her way to me after I was barred by management from having any contact with her (long, incredibly stupid story short, even psych has no self-awareness or concept of confirmation bias even after evidence is provided), causing Romeo and Juliet syndrome to manifest, the only time he showed any emotion or registered what I said was when I repeated satements from another staff and inadvertently implied they cussed in front of this client. CEOs aren't even human.
If you have a concern, address it during a meeting with other employees. If a member of management tries to stop you and wants to discuss it later, remind them of the open door policy and continue in front of everyone else.
Zero companies care about your health and well being.
Exactly, lol they could be any Corp and it’s the same, this is nothing insightful nor new. My question would be how much do you think you should make stocking shelves, etc, these job require almost nothing to do. Should they be paid more sure but let’s get realistic too.
@@AmergedinA jobs value isn’t defined by how difficult it is, rather the amount of money that it brings to the company. And besides that, the best paying jobs in the world require little to no labor and are held by people who did nothing to deserve them outside of being born to the right family.
I don’t expect companies to care about me personally. I don’t care about them either. But I expect them to pay well, offer good benefits, and treat me with dignity and respect.
@@quikkdraww Eloquent, no lies were told and I share the sentiment but I am just curious as to what that number would be? What is the new minimum wage in 2024 in a world where millions are not made in a life time but in hours. What is the worth of the least of us per hour of life? And will they agree to it… or continue to horde. Your tone feels as though you mistake my curiosity for a position.
A company cannot care. Companies are not people. It's the people in the company who can care but they're not allowed when everything and everyone is beholden to shareholders
I used to work in produce and I remember this had this made in house product called 'Spa Water'. I would watch them in the back fill bottles of tap water from the same sink used to clean dishes and put a mint leaf and a few slices of cucumber in the bottle and sell it for $5.99. The crazy thing is people would actually buy it. I wanted to tell customers the truth but I was afraid of losing my job.
Diabolical
When I worked in the cut fruit department we would take the rotting moldy fruit that was spoiling off the shelves re cut it and sell it as cut fruit packages. It was gross and it felt dishonest I didn't stay there very long, They called it "minimizing waste"
I remember the spa water thing. They'd put anything in there... I saw asparagus a few times.
The implication on the customer end was that it was spring water; the fact it was just out of the tap isn't surprising though.
@@Van-nk4eecutting of fruit that has imperfections isn’t a Whole Foods thing all grocery stores do that if you go to Albertsons or krogers or even Aldi their cut fruit is food that has been cut around. The reason is that the food is edible the parts cut are not but the entire fruit doesn’t need to be tossed. Customers are paying for the labor spent to cut fruit if it was a whole fruit you’d be paying that price. Even in a bag of oranges or blueberries you’ll be bound to eventually get some that are spoiled or have imperfections.
How much were you getting paid to be scared to lose that job? I’m assuming not much. How unemployable are you that you’re scared to lose a minimal-paying job?
I know life is tough and I’m broke af too but I just don’t understand people being scared of losing their highly replaceable job.
There comes a time when workers have to unionize to have any power at all. Good for the Philadelphia Whole Foods workers!
there comes a time when we have to realize expecting every company's employees to unionize separately is unfeasible.
companies need to be forced to act morally through regulation.
even if every company in america unionized, new ones would pop up that find a way to prevent unions, and that would allow them to generate profit quicker, which would get them more shareholders, and eventually they would take over the market and all employees/customers would be forced to use them instead.
we're already all part of a union, it's called the united states. yet we voted to let the corporations decide the rules, and we have no power to stop them.
I agree. We need more laws protecting workers. None of us should have to leave our basic human rights at the home when we work through the door of a corporation.
@@ohiasdxfcghbljokasdjhnfvaw4ehr Generally, the Republicans don't want to allow unions. The Repubs have the majority in many states and they also gerrymander to get their way with our votes.
@@bzh7648we have shop unions in the UK... As a whole they do what the supermarkets say... They help in individual cases, but as far as big decisions nope. I know how stressful this way of working is, as I've been in this situation from a bad employer. It made me really ill, these companies are psychopaths.
@@ohiasdxfcghbljokasdjhnfvaw4ehr
Reagan destroyed the country when he allowed corporations to run over people.
Amazon as a whole is solely all about the numbers
Soul-less
lived it at many of their positions.. since 2011
they also steal wholesale sources.. i was top laptop seller for apple 2011 and got magically asked after 2 sales, give up the source or account frozen
@@dertythegrowerLooks like somebody didn't bring their negotiating gun to the negotiating table.
For you to save they have to cut. 🎉
I've never used Amazon. When Bezos took over Whole Foods, I switched to the two smaller albeit local stores that were further from where I live.
You're lucky you're able to do that. I shop local when I can. Those business owners generally care about the community they're in.
Good for you! I would do the same if I were there which thankfully I am not.
Whoa!! You’re the only other person I’ve ran into that hasn’t subscribed to the local business killer bozo show… *high five*
Never been to Amazon or whole foods. Now I see no need to give them my business in the future either. Love the small business grocery stores, shops, flea markets and farmers' roadside stands. Grateful for those places 🙏
My son calls me a conspiracy theorist because we don’t shop Amazon in this house any more. It is what it is. 😂
SHE GOT A CONCUSSION!!! and then had to keep working!!! WTF! THAT IS DISGUSTING WHOLE FOODS MANAGEMENT!!
I worked with her she used to get dizzy on the shift.
I eat there today. I live around the corner. Ima see if I recognize anyone for next time.
Walmart needs an enormous accountability check too.
“Work faster faster faster!!”
Why is Amazon so obsessed with speed? You’re already a successful company. All this does is make me want to buy my stuff elsewhere. Sadly, we are in an oligopoly where all these major supermarkets treat their staff horribly
It really doesn't make sense with Whole Foods... You shop at stores like that for quality and a good experience. Not to be rushed.
It really doesn't make sense with Whole Foods... You shop at stores like that for quality and a good experience. Not to be rushed.
@@gcs8889Amazon is still surprised they burnt through so many employees but still won't do anything about it. Stupid short term gains
It’s because it is no longer about the workers or even the customers - it’s all about the shareholders.
Unfortunately the top is full psychopaths and they enjoy making others miserable. This is the reason there is no other reason.
As consumers we need to spend our dollars wisely if we want to live in a fair and equitable world. If workers want a union and the corporation fights it I won’t shop there any more. Corporations are not for the people. They only care about profit, period. That’s why our dollars can be quite powerful if, we the people, stick together.
Folks wouldn't boycott Amazon back when they fired Chris Smalls, who went on to lead the Amazon worker's union. They sure as hell aren't gonna stop shopping at WF. When eating high-quality food that is raised right matters to you, your only supermarket choices in this area are WF, Sprouts or Fresh Market. No one will get the yuppies to boycott WF.
If the choice is between Wal-Mart, Target, Wild Oats, Whole Foods, and Kroger.....
.. which evil do you choose? What makes them better than the rest? (Hint: they are all the same)
@@chernobyl169 The bottom line for me is that is there's no place else where I can get what I need, I'll shop at the place that I know has it. Which would be WF. I boycotted Amazon for 2 yrs. during Covid, but I might have been the only one in my group.
The biggest problem with that is everyone has to eat. So unless you're going to grow all your own food, it's not that feasible to boycott grocery stores for most people.
I stopped shopping there as soon as bezos bought it. I'm sick of these rich f*ks. They ruin everything they touch, most of all human lives.
Anyone who says these people don’t deserve a union needs a wake up call. Every worker deserves to live and work with dignity. Solidarity forever.
Unions can help but they should also be looked upon with suspicion because they are sometimes used to take over successful people's businesses.
Have they ever NOT become corrupt just like any other large institution? People missing the real point here and that is that all value is being sucked out of money so fast that EVEN THE LARGEST evil corporations cant keep up with it and are revealed to be abusing people when theyre trying to keep up with the plummeting value of the dollar. Not sure when wages were literallly not the VERY LAST thing to rise in response to inflation, in my lifetime at least, but i'd really love to hear about it.... seriously like all the backbreaking work these people do and.... ok...welll give you guys a 25 cent raise every 8 months with this new contract.Wow.. that's a GREAT START. Literally $2 a day? SUCKERS. Start your own thing, move out of the toxic city, find the people who have hearts and minds. Or you serve the rich and their ridiculous whims indefinately. Pretty sure we all know that deep down guys
Anybody includes Bezos and Musk. They're trying to cripple unions by getting the NLRB declared unconstitutional by trump judges.
I used to work at Whole Foods in Vancouver Canada before. THE WORST experience. Toxic co-workers, toxic employers. McDonals where I worked during my high school times was way better.
Oh, and it has nothing to do with them being bought by Amazon, by the way. This was happening way back in the days.
Whole Foods is like a cult. @@aselle1709
I stopped shopping at Whole Foods when it was taken over by Amazon. I knew it would never be a good atmosphere after that happened.
I worked at Amazon in the data department and yes, they track everything to the millisecond. I built reports on it.
Good job building the reports I guess
Glad you had a job, someone has to do the collating etc. I know you weren't probably part of the policy making but your knowledge (given anonymously if you like) would go a long way to helping those still stuck working under that scrutiny. Not everyone has to strike or be on the picket line -- the knowledge you have can be your way of helping 🤞💜
Because that's totally normal behavior to desire millisecond data on people...
(sarcasm, I presume) 😁@@williamyoung9401
Crazy how the guy at the bottom always expects top dollar for not having any skills!
Please stop calling warehouses "fulfillment centers." No one gets any fulfillment from being there.
Word-fu
English buddy
Your fulfillment is getting paid, employers are not there to hold your hand and coddle you.
@@bdegrds Enjoy the taste of boot leather?
Well... they fulfill your food needs. But I get where you're coming from. They love using different words for something that already exists and make it look as if it was something different or friendlier but it's a linguistic façade. It has a specific name but I forgot what it was called. It's used on News and by big corporations in general.
This is America in a nutshell.
In a nuts hell.
The very unfortunate truth most, even including in this video, fail to realize. They're gonna keep squeezing us until we burst.
@@lboogy4704 They see us as cattle, less than human because we don't walk, talk, and act like these rich jerks.
America has lost its way. It’s no longer about the workers and customers - it’s all about the shareholders.
@@TulipIris7244always about shareholder return, it’s disgusting.
This isn’t just Whole Foods it’s big corporations period! Gone are the days of employee appreciation due to the shortage of smaller companies and compassionate employers.
So that’s why it went from happy hippies to super grumpy people who hate their jobs. Whole Foods is not fun any longer.😕
Worked at Whole Foods while in college and for about a year and a half after graduating. They didn't train me on the register until three weeks after I started, so I collected baskets for eight hours each day. COVID hit right after I graduated, and I worked through the thick of it. One of the worst experiences of my life. They refused to acknowledge that COVID was even a thing at first and wouldn't let employees wear masks because they didn't want to 'start a panic'. Corporate raised wages by a dollar for about six months so people wouldn't riot and then dropped it. Had enough one day, walked out and never went back.
The people I worked with were some of the most hardworking, kindest people you'd ever meet. It's disgusting how poorly corporate treats everyone. We had to take anti-union training modules, which were framed as 'we think you don't need a union because we care about our employees' needs.' I can only imagine how much worse it's gotten since I left.
Man it sounds like it got worse even from when I quit to when you started. Then you'd talk to the real old-timers, the people who'd been there over a decade, and they'd describe a completely different company.
Whole foods is a typical company that hates its employees
It didnt used to be. I knew employees who worked there before and during the Amazon purchase and it used to be a great place they enjoyed working at.
It's like there's something inherit in companies that makes them hate workers... Hm.
I knew a guy who worked there until the Amazon buyout and his entire RANK as a supervisor was eliminated. He wasn't laid off, because then Amazon would have had to pay Unemployment, so they invented ridiculous reasons to write-up everyone in the company who shared that rank, forcing them to quit or be fired for "incompetence." Jeff Bezos is a saint. (sarcasm)
I worked there for 5 years in the 90s. It used to be a great place to work.
I am definitely Republican and right wing, no doubt about it but my dad has worked at a local grocery store chain in St Louis for 45 years, and is in the UFCW Union. I remember going on strike with him back in 03, that was a wild time. He still works a few days a week, but has great benefits and a pension. He feels if he completely retires, he will lose purpose in his life. I am all for workers getting better pay and benefits from companies who can afford it. I'm a trucker and the teamsters used to be a massive union, covering most truckers, but sadly a major company closed a couple years ago called Yellow Roadway Carriers (YRC freight) , which was union, and a lot of what killed that company was excessive demands from the teamsters that the company just couldn't afford. Towards the end, they had one of the worst fleets in the road. I think the decision to unionize needs to be made on a company by company basis. Just because your company has great profits and a ton of employees doesn't mean working conditions will improve because they choose to go union. You might even be risking your own livelihood because companies who are very much against unionizing might just close the location in question just to avoid setting a precedent for the rest of the company, leaving everyone worse off especially the community.
The USA MUST be Unionized.
Business MUST be regulated.
Business MUST not be the Government.
I am definitely Republican and right wing, no doubt about it but my dad has worked at a local grocery store chain in St Louis for 45 years, and is in the UFCW Union. I remember going on strike with him back in 03, that was a wild time. He still works a few days a week, but has great benefits and a pension. He feels if he completely retires, he will lose purpose in his life. I am all for workers getting better pay and benefits from companies who can afford it. I'm a trucker and the teamsters used to be a massive union, covering most truckers, but sadly a major company closed a couple years ago called Yellow Roadway Carriers (YRC freight) , which was union, and a lot of what killed that company was excessive demands from the teamsters that the company just couldn't afford. Towards the end, they had one of the worst fleets in the road. I think the decision to unionize needs to be made on a company by company basis. Just because your company has great profits and a ton of employees doesn't mean working conditions will improve because they choose to go union. You might even be risking your own livelihood because companies who are very much against unionizing might just close the location in question just to avoid setting a precedent for the rest of the company, leaving everyone worse off especially the community.
Hell no. Have you ever worled for a union
Do it
@@ayeitsshane806 ...do tell. Why is your comment is "hec naw"? 🤔
Well because many older unions have turned in to their own version of a mini corporation. Everybody's getting their back rubbed at the top everywhere.
Good luck, guys. You're fighting for more than yourselves. God bless you.
Whole Foods used to be a company where employees rarely left. Not anymore. Its been equally disappointing for consumers too. Food quality has drastically declined. Should have never sold themselves.🤦
My store had a bi-weekly auditor that always said he were never good enough. Then one day they gave us a pizza party to say we were the only store in Illinois to reach their standards.
Lol. Pizza party. Classic.
What an extravagant reward for best in state. Sorry they suck.
That pizza party was paid out of the wages they kept from workers. What a lame way to pretend to reward good employees. I'm sure that helped everyone with their bills.
Pizza Party becoming a "rightful" trigger.
They'll get rid of you first before they EVER consider a raise.
Don't they take metrics at the stores before setting standards?
Whole Foods was a terrible employer fifteen years ago when they were an independent competitor to Wild Oats in the still-budding natural and organic food market. All that imagery of being the healthy future was disguising the same corporate culture of worker exploitation you get at Wal-Mart.
no such thing as a good corporation.
I remember wild oats while living in sobe 2007 to 2011.. are they still around?!?
I shop at Walmart often, for years. I don't see the workers killing themselves. I see them doing their jobs at a normal pace. Sometimes I see them stopping and having a chat amongst themselves and a laugh. I've never seen a supervisor walk up and scold them for their speed or chatting with a fellow employee. I shop in NJ and Pa. Walmarts. They even employ disabled workers at the front doors as greeters and receipt checkers. BTW, these jobs are not necessarily meant to be jobs you take to support a family by yourself.
Surprised you feel that way: I worked for Whole Foods in Houston in 2014 and loved it. I guess we had very different experiences.
I work at Whole Foods and Amazon is all about metrics. Every time the CEO starts spouting off customers love this or that, he is flat out distorting the crap us workers have to deal with.
Unions are the answer for workers almost universally. In my job I actually work the same job at different facilities. The ones that are unionized I make 60% more money. I have also in the past been a part of two other unions. When the CEO says he wants a direct connection to workers basically that is code for we don't want to pay you more
I stopped shopping at whole foods as soon as it was acquired by Amazon. It was inevitable they would operate like the warehouses
UNION YES!!!
I stand with the workers!
The greed of CEOs and shareholders destroy companies, instead of providing quality products and good jobs.
Shareholders? But...Amazon doesn't pay dividends. 🤔🧐🤔
The corporate monopolies are getting more consolidated and richer, while the rest of us work harder and get less.
The union ain’t going to do shit for the Whole Foods employees except take a chunk out of their paycheck.
This video just made me aware of something I do and have done which I didn't think was a big deal but now I know it is. I am a senior disabled person (legally blind/Deaf) and when I shop at W or WF or wherever, I can NEVER find someone to assist me if I need to find something or read something for me (another thing they've done cutting employees to service the floor). So I ask the online shopper person who is always present now. Not thinking they are being surveilled or even have a time quota. They of course are very nice and do assist me (I have yet to meet one who refuses) but it never dawned on me that I am cutting into their squeezed time making their job that much more stressed. I really despise what corporations have done to our world (and the politicians who give them the power to do whatever they want). I'm old enough to remember pre-1980's shopping and it was a whole different world where customers and workers had a symbiosis relationship that was wonderful. Corporations drive was to make customers happy, profit came from that.
The drive for increa$ing profit is putting pressure on the bottom row of workers in the organization. Its funny that the 'boot' always squeezes down like that. I wander if there is another way?
@@darkbit1001 LOL. How about the "boot" kicking upward into the ass of the bosses. But personally I am trying to be more conscience of how I act and respond to the worker. Always assume there is a reason. Esp. not take things personally and they may have a very good reason they can't help.But then I wouldn't be so frustrated to start off with if businesses would hire more staff so I don't have to spend an 1/2 hr hunting for someone....esp. ones who speak English (Walmart being the worst offenders).
As a former worker there (before the era of the online shopping person) I can say that whether or not you interrupted their timed work, they would never have fulfilled their quota anyway. While I was there, the shifts went from "hectic but if you hustle you can get everything on the checklist" to "you will never get all the things done that are required of you." At least I could connect with the occasional customer like you who was polite, kind, and didn't take my servitude for granted.
Support your local co-op
Not an option for most. My community's new food co-op took ten years to get off of the ground, and we will see if it can succeed. I only shop there. So grateful. The staff and customers know each other by name. It is a community. Do support yours if you have that option.
I have local farmers markets but they're extremely expensive.
99% of people can not afford it, which is actually the goal.
Squeeze everybody dry, and you have what we have now.
Actual fascism, not the "omg trump is a fascist" like actual fascism where companies and the government are working as one.
@@JimboSlice-t5i i mean he is a fascist theres no denying that fact , companies and the government are working as one can be fascist as well.
@@zannis5441 You don't know what fascism is, and that's extremely apparent.
Take your brain damage elsewhere.
Yes and remember you can shop without being a co-op member
I know someone who worked at an Amazon fulfillment center and as a delivery driver who broke a rib while trying to meet the company's metric.
Worked at Whole Foods from 2005-2018 in many different west coast stores, and in my experience it was super fun. Met a lot of great people at work (coworkers and customers alike), always have a job no matter which state I lived in. I was making a few dollars above everyone else in the industry. Left just shortly after Amazon bought it, and everyone who worked there said it sucks now.
This is exactly why I never buy anything at whole foods or from amazon.
Where do you buy from?
@@TimeFlies-d8bthere is a whole world outside of Amazon/Whole Foods.
@@1975brett this whole world is also messed up
@@TimeFlies-d8byes…yes it is and again whole world aside from Whole Foods Sprouts is growing and amazing I have bought one thing from Amazon in the past year and some there are stores all around you and there are companies that make those goods to be sold on Amazon. Amazon just barely got into being the one to produce its own goods.
Boycott Amazon, I use eBay
That young man is so right about the open door policy. WOW I’ve never thought of it like that. Stay together and fight together, we are more than them and we will win
Agreed. We have a tough road ahead. People who are committed to dismantling the government have just been re-elected. Why do you think Elon and Bezos are buddies right now?
DON'T SHOP THERE. BOYCOTT!
Enough people need to do it. Most of us only know how to blindly consume while saying "I only care about me and mine". That rugged mindset is what got us here.
I have never shopped there and after this video I never will.
The Whole Foods stores in Hawaii are sad. Employees look stressed and unhappy. I feel sorry for them.
Any company that won't even let you use the bathroom should be fined out of existence
I am so fucking sick and tired of capitalisation and corporatization of EVERYTHING on a major scale. When does it end?
@@BurnabyBoyZippy when people stop buying stuff.
Is the messiah consolidating power?
When the planet is a burning husk.
It ends when people realise they have to stop spending their money at publicly listed companies.
Aww hush you air head . They can go get a new job. This is what reality would be like with yall socialist society mut head. If you don't like it then just go. Why do people sit and cry in misery
I hope you guys get a union. I want to shop where workers are paid and happy. I feel very uncomfortable shopping these days. I think online shopping allows us to ignore the face of the real workers. Same as eating modern meat. It doesn't look a thing like the animal and is transformed in ways that obfuscate the fact someone slaughtered a living animal so we could pleasure ourselves. If we can do that in mass it's no wonder people like Jeff can just crap on his employees. 😢
Shop at Sprouts
I am sometimes in WF office buildings for work and wanted to point out that their higher level computer office workers (idk what those titles are) seem very happy with their pay and benefits, as well as the "company culture". I am not singing their praises, just pointing out this is also a class issue. Lower paid & "lower skilled" (as they are referred to despite often having plenty of skills and experience) workers are deprioritized and exploited almost everywhere in this country and it is a huge problem.
Precisely. The issue isn't with corporate. It is their customer facing workers who actually fulfill orders and supply and sell goods in stores. This dynamic is especially common in biotech.
I was a software engineer for Amazon for a few years, there is an issue with the work culture in corporate: they abuse the employees but pay them high enough to not only accept the abuse but pass it on down the line to the frontline workers.
They also love hiring people on work visas since they are much less likely to leave for fear of being deported, this keeps the working conditions down and creates a culture of fear and cruelty.
They had irresponsible hiring practices (competing for headcount with other big tech for no real reason) which led to unnecessary layoffs throughout the company a couple years ago. They claim they need to “be more lean” despite rising profits. If they had profit then they didn’t need to lay off anyone and they don’t need to underpay and squeeze frontliners until they get hurt physically and mentally.
They have a program that is ostensibly meant to train warehouse associates and other frontliners to get into the tech part of the business - we had one on our team, she was a hard worker - but guess who was first to get laid off… the one who spent years with the company and followed all the rules to move up only to be kicked down again, she didn’t even get her old frontline job back
People are judged by the way they treat the poor. Who would you like to see succeed someone who helps the poor or another who is cruel to the poor?
The perks are nice in the offices but honestly the job security is not. The company cut 1/3 of its regions recently where do you think those regional or global jobs went?
You Haven’t been “pushed” until you’ve worked at Aldis.
I love Aldi but man the people that work there seem overwhelmed 😂
'Amazon owned' yeah that tells us all we need to know.
"Amazon-owned" explains it all
The convenience culture is breaking people. The class factor is not even a surprise.
We need to make the rich bend the knee to OUR demands.
Well, boycott Whole Foods. They are not the only game in town. Kroger also has a bad reputation.
Just stop buying their s@@t. It's not a big philosophy.
The French have ideas
@@RayPointerChannel Honestly, I wonder what groceries aren't scummy. I avoid Kroger, Whole Foods, and (of course Walmart). Who's left other than regional shops? I tend towards Meijer, but it's only in the Midwest and I even sideeye it there too, since just because I haven't heard much bad, doesn't mean it's not there.
@@RayPointerChannel "Why are they not eating the rich?" - Lrrr from Omicron Persei 8.
You are a journalistic inspiration, and covering topics that should never be buried - power to the people, who make a world for people.
Boycott Whole Foods and Amazon.
I have.
No excuses.
We were fine without them before.
We will be fine without them after.
Just do it.
Yep! Closed my Amazon & Amazon Prime account today. Eyes wide open!
Well, I guess it's a good thing that I can't afford to shop there 😂
We have found many items much cheaper at Whole Foods compared to our local Meijer stores. You just have to compare prices, but that gets tedious.
There are a few things that are reasonably priced, but you have to pick and choose.
the people that can dont give a fuck about workers rights
"...and since there's no place to go...let it snow, let it snow, let it snow..."
Being poor is not good or helpful either. It's hard to boycott or have a choice if people are poor.
I've seen comments say they know Temu or Walmart is bad but they didn't have a choice but to shop there because they were poor.
No reason to frame this as a uniquely Whole Foods problem, although it’s certainly exacerbated by Amazon ownership. The entire system of Western capitalism is falling down this hole. You are no longer an investable person as a worker, you are a soulless commodity to be used and discarded.
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Yep, Walmart kept saying how I did the work of 4 people but when I finished my first year there during Covid as an essential worker they gave me a 20 cent “raise” while groceries bought at Walmart went up 25%. The 10% WM associate discount doesn’t apply to grocery items…
Literally every single business since Covid. Profits have gotten used to skeletal crews. And when I worked as a MIT/AGM in the grocery stores (another chain) we were already seeing the management philosophy of “if you get everything done in a day, you’re not pushing hard enough”, as one of my store managers said.
But still, it’s everywhere. In doctors offices, hospitals. Have you ever walked into a Walgreens before? There’s like one person in the whole store.
As someone working in healthcare, i agree. God forbid you go over your 40 hrs because you’re trying to get as many patients coordinated or the assistance they need navigating care. “F the patients if it means we have to pay you more because we’re too greedy and spineless to properly staff our hospitals” shareholders or some bizworm
So proud of the courage these workers are displaying. Many will benefit whether you win or lose. Someday “the workers” will win!🥇
14 IPM? Must be nice. At Loblaws in Canada, we're expected to scan 17.
Going 3 years now without giving Amazon a penny. I don't have an Amazon account anymore, and spend the 10 extra minutes to go to a small family grocery store.
I know it's tough peeps and the convenience is nice but these companies treat people like trash and we need to make these companies hurt.
Try living somewhere where all the small grocery stores have been run out of the city... There are are lot of places where people don't have that luxury😢
there are no small family grocery stores by me, and that’s the reality for millions of Americans. we don’t use chains because we’re lazy and can’t do a ten minute trip to the store. that is a lie that you’ve just made up and believe. we use chains because that’s all we have. it is not a sign of moral inferiority.
@suoutubez19 this wasn't an attack against people who don't have options, more of if you have options try to use them.
Do you have small kids?
@@snickerdoodles787 yes I do 2 kids, and I weld as a full time job and do 3d modeling as a part time job.
My husband used to work at Whole Foods, it was horrific how they treated him. When he finally had an out, he hesitated because he felt bad leaving his teammates who would inevitably have to compensate for the work he’d leave behind. It’s so toxic and cruel. It makes me resent the wealthy people who shop there.
That sentiment is common at amazon warehouses, too. People are encouraged to overwork themselves to help out their overworked coworkers. Amazon very much encourages the “we are family” mentality, but only because it leads to higher output that seems like “just helping my coworkers” to the worker.
The main problem, and appropriate target of your resentment, are the rich people who own, operate, and profit from it.
I'm not wealthy. It's one of few places I can consistently find the foods I can eat... Please be mindful on your judgement of the shoppers.
Nah, we won't care about 1-2 people that can only find food at Whole Foods. We care about workers' rights. And if you cared about your survival, you'd want this sort of company to not choke the market and be the only one that is able to supply you with what you need, but consoomer brain rot comes in many ways
@@CaliNic30 don’t even try to suggest that the suffering of employees of a universally hated corporate monstrosity is a fair trade off for defective genes.
I worked at Wholefoods in seattle from 2004 to 2008. During that time the company went public. I honestly think that it was a really good place to work then. I remember hearing amazonbought it and I was like...damn I bet it's gonna start sucking to work there
I was working in one in California when the purchase went through. I can tell you that the company had already changed to where most workers knew it would be worse but not really that different.
Nobody is making these people work there. Why don’t they just quit instead of crying about working 🤦🏽♂️
Service workers like those in this video keep the world running, yet they are paid pennies compared to the CEO who does nothing. This is why unions are important. Best of luck to them!
I worked at WFM from 2020-2021. I'm very glad there is someone telling this story
I've had a Whole Foods store in my area for a few years but I've avoided it because of the bad vibe the place gave me, this tells me why that place has such a vibe.
Agreed, same experience
Their palm pay bs creeps me out. They are clearly conditioning the masses for the coming system of technocratic control people like Bezos have in mind for us.
Bro me too! I've only been in a Whole Foods a few times, but yeah it creeped me out.
@@soninalphin2771 I'm so sick of this platform hiding comments. Hit the stupid newest tab if you want to see my other one I left. This one will probably get hidden too though.
This is why I absolutely refused to work for Amazon in 2020 and onward, because I knew I was only gonna be a number
It feels almost inescapable inevitable these days. I hate it. I don't know what would remedy it, it's ruining all of our lives collectively
@@quarry26True; it's ruining everything everywhere. Wherever you're at now, fight the good fight there, because nowhere is safe.
You are probably just training AI for a robot to take over.
Everyone is just a number everywhere.
I only worked there for a day and had to leave on how much I realized the trainer didn't know how to train me safely to do the position
I worked at Chipotle for 4 years. You guys absolutely need to do this on them. I worked from new hire to GM over 5 stores, it’s pretty awful. Dig into it lads
Agreed! My daughter got hired a few months back at a brand new location that was opening and left within a month. Horrible toxic environment, quick, inadequate training followed by unrealistic expectations and speed metrics (complete with threats of being written up) for a whopping $14 per hr. She was over it immediately and I fully supported her decision.
My favorite thing to ask: "So if you have all these crazy metrics for low level employees, what are your metrics for managers and up?" It's usually followed by a long silence.
These jackasses demand every second of an employee's time be maximized while their days work involves sending a few emails.
I was an associate store team leader or WFM for years. I worked very long hours under a great deal of pressure. After my days off I might have 400 emails and that was the very least of my responsibilities. The metrics pressure, short staffing, food safety regulations , constant interaction with team members and customers, no hr support, constant work orders for repairs. During COVID I regularly worked 16 hour days ( on salary, no ot). I finally quit 3 years ago. I had had enough.
And they get paid a fair salary, unlike the actual workers.
@@beckyheinz7337 true but they do have a lot of responsibility and they are salaried. No ot and have to be available 24 hours a day 7 days a week. The company can also move you to any store they like within a certain distance. I was at one store I loved ten minutes from my apartment and suddenly ( one weeks notice) I'm commuting over an hour for the next three years. I'm speaking about store leadership. Dept managers are paid hourly and can't be moved.
@@beckyheinz7337honestly for the hours they work I doubt it’s considered a fair salary. Hourly team members and hourly leadership gets paid overtime or holiday pay. A salary person just works, no one thinks about the person that gets the call at 3am after working until 11 and has to get up get to the store fix the problem go home wake up again and still open the store. At least hourly team members can leave work at work.
The metrics for leadership is harder then for a team member, you are expected to have UPH, IPM in your roles leadership is responsible for those plus INF, PDOR, UPLH, Labor, and many more just from front end and ecomm leadership alone. Product teams have other metrics that they have to follow plus hiring staffing training and filling an entire department along with promotional change outs marketing and building and filling departments. Team leadership is responsible for food safety metrics and accountability of team members.
I worked at Whole Foods in 2010, way before Amazon took over. We were constantly made to watch videos about how to handle abusive customers. They didn’t help. Worst customers by far of any retail job I ever worked. And insane levels of micromanagement.
Their CEO looks like a cross between an android and a ventriloquist's dummy.
😂
8:41 That "direct connection to... team members" involves the manager standing tall and the worker bent over a table.
When Whole Foods opened in Oakland, CA, it was awesome. Great prepared food selection: salads, hot foods, pizza, tacos, smoothies, etc. These days I go to one outside Seattle. It's nice enough. I can tell you I don't go there for the employees, lol. They have quality food. The hot food & salad bar are good, not great. I really hope they unionize.
If you get injured at work & they won't let you go, that's probably false imprisonment. Call 911 get the cops there get someone arrested get a police report call a lawyer.
True!
Bro ... Call me an ambulance!
I'd get all the tests.
Then I'd be headed over to my favorite injury attorney.
I stopped going there. I go to mom's organic instead where they treat their workers like human beings and they have better products. better prices.
I worked at MOMs from 2013-2016, Rockville and Arlington.
Unfortunately we started seeing a little of this philosophy start coming down in management. Not to the same level as described here, but yes, MOMs is the still the best of a bunch. I miss it sometimes, but unfortunately I needed a real job paying living wages.
As long as people are willing to work for money there will continue to be neglected workers. They solution should probably be to refuse to use money or spend as little money as possible until the money problem is solved.
This is 100% the experience of Whole Foods. After Amazon bought it, Whole Foods and the culture was literally eviscerated. The people I enjoyed talking to for YEARS- are no longer working there. Amazon has literally destroyed the brand. CUSTOMERS SEE IT AND FEEL IT TOO.
It's not Whole Foods anymore; it's Amazon Foods...
Whole foods was unprofitable because the workers didn't work. I used to go in and they would be lounging around.
@ 100% accurate. This is the same dehumanizing approach people like Musk and Ramaswamy will attempt to drive into literally every business and interpersonal interaction we have. It’s like forcing a form of autistic interaction onto the entirety of US society. This will lead to deeper erosion of human culture. Bezos, Musk and their ilk must be stopped.
@ and now we have a sh*tty version of Walmart where the shelves often go unstocked and the employees are disconnected from customers. Whole Foods used to have a positive vibe and a friendly environment - now it is a sad, dystopian desert staffed by people who aren’t even remotely connected to the people who shop there.
Definitely. The atmosphere is depressing and dead. It’s the sort of place that makes you feel bad just for existing.
As expensive as Whole Foods is and they don’t treat their workers well!! WTF! Grocery workers are essential workers and should be treated with respect.
My bike's tires were found slashed each time I returned to it outside of Whole Foods. My request to the store manager to review surveillance videos was rejected. I think their nefarious security guard was complicit in these capers. I say NO to Whole Foods.
I'm impressed with your forward thinking. Once Amazon purchased whole foods, I completely stopped shopping there for a number of reasons. I never shared my view with anyone. I didn't want to bad mouth whole foods. I went in a few months ago, it looked like a ghost town. I asked one employee what's going on. He quietly said the store doesn't have enough workers. I noticed the shelves and premade food is nearly non-existent. Thankfully we have a local chain market that looks like WFs was in it's hay day. Best of all this chain of six markets is EMPLOYEE OWNED. I'm so glad to see employees who appreciate their jobs and have been there since the opening of the first store.
I wish you all the best with unionizing in Pennsylvania, you all deserve every bit of respect and good wages.💙💙💙
Right - as a former worker/manager in a large corporate retail business, it was exactly the same - glossy printed words for workers and customers to be impressed with...and every measure of how workers were treated (and customers were helped) fell so far below those wonderful words as to be ludicrous. Corporations are NOT people (the Supreme Court was WRONG). Corporations of massive scale all play loose with the truth. They cut their own throats by cutting their employees to the bone...unable, not unwilling, to take care of the customer. Corporations are investing heavily in robotics. They will replace a machine when they wear it out. They treat their human workers the same. These corporations invite retaliation via unions. We only have to look to our history to see it being repeated - big business squashing its workers in the blind march to profits.
I used to worked at WF back in 1993 - it was so hippy dippy and fun. I would only assume, once corporate got a hold of it, it became just another chain supermarket.
I worked at Whole Foods before and after they were bought by Amazon (two different time periods). The first time was 2013-2015 and it was great, they cared about the workers and it showed. When I came back in 2019, there was no soul, and whereas before, people were happy, after Amazon, it was like working with zombies. Good for those folks unionizing, that’s the only way they will learn.
Sounds like working at Walmart. I’ve never been treated worse. The management talked to us like dogs. No respect. No pay. No point in working there. No thanks.
I have never shopped at Whole Paycheck and don’t intend to start now. The smell of smug is overwhelming.
I shopped there once and was appalled at their jacked up prices. That was years ago and before Amazon bought them.
Amazon can’t keep getting away with this
Vote with your dollars! I'm starting to exit anything Amazon that I possibly can. It's more possible now that Shopify has the shop app making it easier than ever to buy from Mom and Pop sites instead with much better service.
@@gregyoungman wanna bet?
As long as people invest in that company and it's profitable, Amazon will continue. You can bet they got government contracts, too.
I used to be a regular shopper but the food quality is not what it used to be either. I haven't set foot in one for years and can't see ever going back.
Going to have to stop shopping at WF's. Hope the workers are able to form a union.
When I saw the title I thought it was about all the hidden poisons, antibiotics, water, GM, and lack of nutrition, in US unprocessed food : just as bad though.
I live in Austin and I remember going to the original Whole Foods it was incredible back 15+ years ago they had restaurants inside now they have nothing compared to that time. Even the pizza has gone down in quality. I cannot shop in the produce and meat section not just from an affordable standpoint but because the stuff just isn’t good like at all the employees are the best part and I’m sure pretty soon they won’t even have that. When I see a shopper I usually get the F out of the way because I knew this I wish more people would do the same. Unfortunately people love Amazon and Whole Foods for that convenience but the reality is someone is always getting squeezed on the other side of the business.
Amazon often pays competitively, but they have extremely unrealistic expectations of their workers so it’s not worth it at all. Get paid a bit more for doing 3x the work in the same amount of time is just not right. Note that competitive wages is NOT always a livable wage. It’s often $1-2 more an hour than their competition for entry level positions.
Early in my job as a supervisor at a walgreens my boss told me that i can’t expect everyone to work as fast as me and it’s MY job to learn their pace and plan and time manage accordingly. Amazon just doesn’t give a crap about that. They just want max numbers all the time. And honestly if someone can hit the numbers they expect for some positions they could easily get a job that pays more elsewhere for many positions. So that means that amazon is likely only attracting workers who aren’t at the level they expect based on the pay they offer and then they work them to sometimes death. I just wish they set expectations better and more up front upon hiring. Also when you go faster than you are comfortable you make more mistakes so it’s not a smart move on amazon’s part but i get it, they just wanna weed out the ones who aren’t up to their standards, but eventually you just run out of people to hire. So it’s a lose lose game imo.
"Competitive wages" means "as low as the market will bear."
@ yup always! 1-2 bucks an hour isn’t doing much. But for some people that’s the difference between paying bills and not.
The faster we realize that they don't care, and proceed to act accordingly based on that knowledge, the better off we all are.
Unionize EVERY industry!
WAL Mart needs to be stopped too
I love seeing these young people take their power back! Best of luck I hope the vote passes!
This is nothing new. This is how most businesses treat their unskilled employees, and it gets worse the bigger the business is. To your employer, you are a machine they are renting.
When will we as a people/society get over the facade of business and business people?
Business leadership in America is all about "what's good enough for me is not for thee." When it comes to employees and even customers. We have really fallen.
A friend of mine worked for Whole Foods before and after Amazon bought it. He said that things were worse after Amazon bought the franchise. It went from a hip and healthy supermarket to a mindless and soulless machine. He's a supervisor at a small supermarket now, and he's actually happier.
I went to a Whole Foods the other day because I had a terrible headache and decided suddenly just to get food to try to relieve it. I almost got bumped into several times by employees who were almost running through the aisles, and it was clear that they were avoiding any possible conversation with customers who might be trying to find something. The cashiers seemed obviously unhappy. I hate going there and I really hope they're successful at unionizing before Bezos replaces everyone with robots or something.
I worked as a shopper at a midwest grocery chain (Hy-Vee) when I was in college. Paid a lot less than these guys get, but this was also in a town of 22,000 in South Dakota. Over the two years I was there, they never raised the UPH though. It was 75 for the whole time I was there. Every once in a while the lady from corporate would show up and was super mean to everyone. Our shopping manager was a super nice lady, and this corpo-chick would come in and tell her to be more strict, despite our manager explaining that she wouldn't have staff at all if she was mean (she was right, we were short-staffed for most of the time I was there). There was never any talk of a union, mainly because most of us were college kids and would be in and out of there in a few years. Hope these workers win and demand a 22 dollar an hour starting wage.
Is Hy-Vee no longer an employee owned company? They used to have that part in their slogan.
@@ne2448 Dude they never were. They still have it in their slogan, but the corporate bullshit is rampant just like everywhere else.