Amazon warehouse workers reveal their horror stories: Staff claim robots get better treatment, ex-con says it's worse than prison. | |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 77994583 United States 02/06/2020 03:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Amazon warehouse workers reveal their horror stories: Staff claim robots get better treatment, ex-con says it's worse than prison. He told the Guardian: 'You're being tracked by a computer the entire time you're there. You don't get reported or written up by managers. You get written up by an algorithm. 'You're keenly aware there is an algorithm keeping track of you, making sure you keep going as fast as you can, because if there is too much time lapsed between items, the computer will know this, will write you up, and you will get fired.' Some warehouse workers complained of a lack of safety in that some violations were 'brushed aside'. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 44779140 United States 02/06/2020 03:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Amazon warehouse workers reveal their horror stories: Staff claim robots get better treatment, ex-con says it's worse than prison. So don’t fucking work there. ??? No one is forcing you to work at Amazon. Freaking NPC behavior. Spend ten minutes watching a YouTube on flipping items and realize any one has the ability to make 100k a year if they get off their ass and use their brains instead of mindlessly marching into amazon each day. |
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User ID: 918411 United States 02/06/2020 03:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Amazon warehouse workers reveal their horror stories: Staff claim robots get better treatment, ex-con says it's worse than prison. If it is so fucking terrible then don't work there...it's not like someone would be developing a career as a warehouse worker that can only be satisfied by Amazon employment. I'm not from Canada, not that there's anything wrong with that..... |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 75517893 United States 02/06/2020 04:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Amazon warehouse workers reveal their horror stories: Staff claim robots get better treatment, ex-con says it's worse than prison. They do it deliberately to ensure a high turnover rate. That way they don't have to give promotions or raises. If you work there long enough, they will pay you to quit and tell you to come back in 6 months or so. Workers should file a class action lawsuit, on the grounds that it is a hostile workplace, due to Amazon's attempt to create working conditions to cause workers to quit, or fail to keep up to unreasonable and unsafe quotas. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 75517893 United States 02/06/2020 04:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Amazon warehouse workers reveal their horror stories: Staff claim robots get better treatment, ex-con says it's worse than prison. If it is so fucking terrible then don't work there...it's not like someone would be developing a career as a warehouse worker that can only be satisfied by Amazon employment. Quoting: BeelzeBob You act as if there is an overabundance of even mediocre paying jobs. When you have mouths to feed, you do what you can get. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 77741597 United States 02/06/2020 04:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Amazon warehouse workers reveal their horror stories: Staff claim robots get better treatment, ex-con says it's worse than prison. they don't have armed guards there that shoot you if you fall down from exhaustion. they just have the police come escort you off the property. then take you to prison after you end up homeless |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77568399 United States 02/06/2020 04:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Amazon warehouse workers reveal their horror stories: Staff claim robots get better treatment, ex-con says it's worse than prison. They need to stop treating people like robots. Let everyone work a their own pace instead of pushing them to meet ridiculous quotas. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77994583 Raymond Velez, worked from October 2018 to November last year. He said he had to pack at a rate of 700 items per hour and that his colleagues were regularly fired for missing rates. Velez told the Guardian: 'That's all they care about. They don't care about their employees. 'They care more about the robots than they care about the employees. I've been to Amcare [the company's on-site medical unit] a couple times for not feeling well, and you'd get an aspirin and sent back to work.' Stower Ilya Geller claimed workers were being watched by surveillance cameras so managers can monitor their productivity rates. [link to www.dailymail.co.uk (secure)] Slavery never ended. Just cause they arent black or picking cotton, doesnt mean they arent a slave Tragic Chinese people are suffering too at the factories making our phones, clothes |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77497363 United States 02/06/2020 04:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Amazon warehouse workers reveal their horror stories: Staff claim robots get better treatment, ex-con says it's worse than prison. If it is so fucking terrible then don't work there...it's not like someone would be developing a career as a warehouse worker that can only be satisfied by Amazon employment. Quoting: BeelzeBob You act as if there is an overabundance of even mediocre paying jobs. When you have mouths to feed, you do what you can get. Shutting your legs reduces the amount of mouths to feed. Its called planning. |
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User ID: 12343871 United States 02/06/2020 04:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Amazon warehouse workers reveal their horror stories: Staff claim robots get better treatment, ex-con says it's worse than prison. And what the fuck do you think UPS is? Fuckers think all logistics companies don't share some of the same practices in manipulating their workers in order to gain greater production rates? Its a fucking cult, I'm telling you Ash Nazg Durbatulûk, Ash Nazg Gimbatul, Ash Nazg Thrakatulûk, Agh Burzum-ishi Krimpatul |
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User ID: 12343871 United States 02/06/2020 04:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Amazon warehouse workers reveal their horror stories: Staff claim robots get better treatment, ex-con says it's worse than prison. It's all one great big fucking cult of personality [link to youtu.be (secure)] Last Edited by Zoinkaeon on 02/06/2020 04:39 PM Ash Nazg Durbatulûk, Ash Nazg Gimbatul, Ash Nazg Thrakatulûk, Agh Burzum-ishi Krimpatul |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 44883436 United States 02/06/2020 04:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Amazon warehouse workers reveal their horror stories: Staff claim robots get better treatment, ex-con says it's worse than prison. It's just a bunch of PUSSY MILLENNIALS that don't know the meaning of hard work! I'd bet my life they are just being asked to perform TYPICAL WAREHOUSE WORK but because they are all such WORTHLESS PUSSIES they think it is cruel & unusual treatment! .....millennials! |
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