Amazon burns through workers so quickly that executives are worried they'll run out of people to employ, according to a new report businessinsider.com/…

> Many of the over 350,000 workers Amazon hired from July to October stayed with the company "just days or weeks," the report said.

> Hourly employees had a turnover rate of about 150% every year, data reviewed by The Times indicated. That led some Amazon executives to worry about running out of hirable employees in the US, the report said.

first world problems, running out of the natural resource called *check notes* people

@Wipqozn Maybe if they paid better...

@MBraedley also, maybe they could treat their employees better? As in not give them obscene targets to reach, allow them time for proper bathroom breaks and rest periods, and allow them to unionize

> Jeffrey Shiau, 35, a volunteer from the crowd, spits water into the mouth of Sam Kaufman, 27, a performer from the Human Fountains, during a reopening party as COVID restrictions are gradually lifted in Los Angeles. 📷 Cheney Orr

I mean I trust the vaccine and everything but it does kind of feel like we might not have learned anything

Also, that guy can spit suspiciously accurate for being a volunteer from the crowd. I know I wouldn't be able to do such a spit

@TimStone why would you even want to do this?

I mean unless it's your kink

@Wipqozn Apparently, the Human Fountains was an act from America's Got Talent, which got buzzed twice by Simon Cowell but still managed to make it to the quarter final. The act was based around spitting with food. The auditions was water, the Judge Cuts was orange juice, raw eggs and water, and the quarter final was "a routine where they spit ketchup and mustard onto a hot dog that another member bit into. "

agt.fandom.com/wiki/Human_Fountains

@MBraedley @Nzall That sounds like SOCIALISSSSSSSSMMM

@TimStone You make an excellent point

Russian President Vladimir Putin says he and U.S. President Joe Biden have agreed to return their ambassadors to their posts in a bid to lower tensions. apnews.com/article/…

@Wipqozn Honestly, I like this new US president. like, he's not perfect, but compared to the last guy he's definitely an improvement

although compared to the last guy, a used tampon would probably be an improvement

@Nzall Compared to the last guy literally no president at all would be an improvement

Ah I guess he's no longer a Householder after all