I once had to make an emergency Amazon purchase on Black Friday due to needing a cable that was stopping me from doing my job and I felt like an asshole. But it was that or my job.

The deals aren't really deals. Price increases just to "lower" the price for a faux sale.

For the last three or four years I've only seen prices go up for items I have waited on during prime day, black friday, cyber monday etc.

It's 1000 out of about 70,000 actually. Because it's the UK you need to look at how many people they employ in the UK. This is because Amazon UK can change its working conditions without the need for the rest of Amazon to.

Once Amazon UK have improved their working conditions, pay and benefits people in other countries may say "well, how come Amazon UK staff have better benefits than we do. Maybe we should do something about it"

In 2021, a grand total of 90 QA workers went on strike at Activision Blizzard for 6 weeks. There are 1100 people in QA across the company. Over 400 QA testers worked on Warzone at the time. During the strike, several major issues that normally would never make it to live, went live. We're talking placeholder art, broken optics, invisible operators, and many more severe issues. The numbers might seem insignificant, but it never is.