ElisabetSobeck t1_iqsw3v6 wrote
Reply to comment by PykeAbuser in I created deAMAZONatorto help you find a non-amazon place to buy your books! by LordGnomeMBE
Drivers pee in bottles and poop in bags to stay on time. The warehouse workers work schedules that hurt organs and tendons, and are close to wearing diapers like meat packers need to. I have a friend that got hurt working the less strenuous jobs at a warehouse.
Warehouse workers sometimes die packing the boxes as fast as they do. Then managers force workers to work next to the corpse for hours or be fired. They have mental health booths or “suicide booths” people jokingly call them, where you can sit inside and cry or clam down if you need to.
Edit: Deaths, most of which management ignored until a worker found the body and called 911 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/17/amazon-warehouse-worker-deaths
The workers who died after being forced to work in the path of a tornado https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/11/business/amazon-deaths-warehouse-tornado/index.html
Optimistic__Elephant t1_iquh8eb wrote
> Warehouse workers sometimes die packing the boxes as fast as they do. Then managers force workers to work next to the corpse for hours or be fired.
Got a citation for that? As much as I dislike Amazon, that’s a bit tough to believe.
ElisabetSobeck t1_iqx10tq wrote
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/17/amazon-warehouse-worker-deaths
Please also note that management KNOWS if a worker is not scanning packages, or spending too long in the bathroom, and will ping their mobile device until they get back on track. People have reported that a manager will physically visit you within 3 minutes if you’re delayed. They could see these bodies on their surveillance system for 20-30 minutes. And they saw these bodies AND DID NOT CALL FOR PARAMEDICS.
I also didn’t mention the warehouse workers threatened with termination if they didn’t work in the path of a TORNADO. Warehouse workers who are now dead because of said tornado (prompting an investigation by the House).
“Bit tough to believe” yeah sure. You dislike Amazon and haven’t heard of these deaths. That’s easy to believe
realnikkipotnick t1_iqtbk5m wrote
they aren’t slaves, they can quit
fungusfunions t1_iqu4mpt wrote
True on the face, unfortunately some people can’t afford to lose their jobs. A young family member worked there and was quite unhappy in the warehouse job he had, but kept it because this was the closest thing to a living wage an unskilled worker like him could get.
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ElisabetSobeck t1_iqx1mtr wrote
Why would Amazon spend money and time training someone so they can leave
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ElisabetSobeck t1_iqz8w73 wrote
Nice super-specific Amazon benefits ad my guy. Totally not sketchy at all
I’m sure you can take them up on that benefits offer after 50-60 hours of warehouse work. Or 50-60 hours of peeing in bottles and pooping in bags. Learn to code after getting those crumbs.
These workers are being abused. My friend was abused. And people like you are so weak they can’t even fathom that something is wrong
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ElisabetSobeck t1_iqzgpcw wrote
You just defended Amazon for like 5 hours my guy. After I explicitly said my friend was injured working for them. Get out of my face
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jandkas t1_iqta89n wrote
So time to stop buying everything right? Have you ever had beef? Or plastic? Honestly no consumption under capitalism is ethical, so virtue signaling like this is useless
louis_etal t1_iqtcdot wrote
One of the most useless of all philosophical outlooks is to make imperfections of any kind the enemy of any improvements. Things are not perfect and never will be but that does make any attempt at betterment pointless.
Lampshader t1_iqti1d6 wrote
Nothing is ethical so you might as well just go around brutally murdering everyone right?
Oh no, wait, it turns out there are degrees of things. What a concept.
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