What were you doing at age 19?

I had a job in a lighting store, which involved a lot of time in a hot warehouse. No health benefits, and I doubt the pay was anything close to the equivalent of $15 an hour. It was pocket money and work experience, and now I can install a ceiling fan.

now he logs in to an app every day and picks what shifts he wants. He can have all the shifts he wants. He put in almost 40 last week. He could theoretically work as much as he wants.

Many of those shifts offer an extra $3-5 per hour.

This isn't for everyone, but it sounds like a dream job for a 19 year old. People have to make decisions for themselves, and it is not Amazon's role to decide if the opportunity they offer is the best fit from an employee's perspective.

Does Amazon care about your kid's health? Sure they do, they say so right on the benefits page!

Amazon cares🟉 about your health and well-being, both on and off the job.

Saying they care but not really doing anything about it is the same way the rest of us care about Amazon employees.

My employer does not provide health benefits for me. He told me he doesn't want to deal with the paperwork and would rather just give me the cash value of the health plan. I wouldn't have taken the job if I couldn't get health insurance elsewhere. Employers worry about the bottom line, the total cost of employee compensation, whatever form it takes. Providing health benefits for flex employees would necessarily reduce salary, or compensation on some other dimension.

🟉benefits on this page apply to regular, full-time employees