> The amounts associates reported receiving in VCP [Variable Compensation Pay] were underwhelming. One claimed his highest monthly payout was $48. Another averaged around $60. The only reason these paltry bonuses are relevant at all is that Amazon itself uses them to arrive at the over $15 per hour figure it estimates as its average Fulfillment Center worker’s pay. “Hourly pay rates are competitive and we offer great benefits – we encourage anyone to compare our pay and benefits to other retailers,” Amazon told Gizmodo in a statement for this piece. Glassdoor lists average warehouse pay for Amazon at $12.33, less at, Home Depot ($12.96), Costco ($13.43), and Target ($14.57). Even stacked against Walmart, its main competition and a business with its own set of unsavory practices, Amazon still comes up twenty cents short on hourly pay.
There's a difference between an Amazon employee expressing their own opinion and an Amazon employee being explicitly paid to praise their employer, though.
That guy just links to the MS blog as his source. The Windows IoT page mentions that they intend to support the Universal App model, but for now it's just C++/Arduino. There's also no UI. http://ms-iot.github.io/content/WelcomeAndFAQ.htm
Easy misreading to make, but this is a new crash. The March 2018 crash was a Model X.