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Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Amazon's Baltimore warehouse has 3,000 workers. Here's what it's like.

Amazon.com Inc.'s hulking fulfillment center off Broening Highway is filled with the dull roar of 16 miles of conveyer belts shuttling packages throughout the more than 1-million-square-foot warehouse.

The fulfillment center, which opened in March, has already blown away the company's initial employment estimate of 1,000 staffers, and Amazon is still hiring, said Mike Thomas, the center's general manager.

The site employs more than 3,000 full-time workers, who get full benefits and, after one year's employment, tuition assistance for college classes that can be unrelated to their Amazon position, Thomas said during a Monday tour of the warehouse, which will hold its official grand opening Tuesday.
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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 29, 2015 at 7:37 PM

    The key to the enterprise is 3000 workers who actually work and do the job they are paid for instead of 500 people who actually work and 2500 people who show up to collect a pay check.

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 29, 2015 at 9:59 PM

    I don't buy from Amazon anymore since they started taxing my orders.

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 29, 2015 at 10:49 PM

    There have been recent articles about what it's like to work at Amazon. It's hellish, and turnover is horrendous. But it is employment.

    Wonder if the employee demographics are Baltimorish?

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  4. AnonymousSeptember 30, 2015 at 6:56 AM

    Amazon has become a monopoly
    Don't like amazon anymore

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  5. AnonymousOctober 1, 2015 at 1:17 PM

    Fk Amazon! They banned the Confederate Battle Flag so I banned my family from using them.

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