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Edit: I missed it, not the article. The article missed AOC's tweet where Amazon themselves noted that they found bags with feces and urine in delivery cars [1,

• rincebrain 6y ago
  No, the article explicitly mentions "Amazon’s pushback on the congressman’s comment about workers peeing in bottles also ignited a new news cycle after The Intercept revealed internal Amazon communications acknowledging that contractors who deliver Amazon packages sometimes defecate in bags and urinate in bottles." (with the latter half being a link to that same The Intercept article)
• chrischen 6y ago
  One of the explanations for this is that due to covid most public restaurants/bathrooms were closed, forcing some drivers to resort to alternative means... At the very least I don't think it's fair to jump to any conclusion about Amazon forcing people to pee in bottles.
  • AnthonyMouse 6y ago
    You also have to realize that a lot of these people are making deliveries in suburban residential neighborhoods where the number of public restrooms rounds off to zero, and you can't just go inside somebody's house. Given a choice between peeing in a bottle or driving 30 minutes round trip to the nearest public restroom, I'm not about to condemn anyone who picks the first one purely out of convenience.
    • pessimizer 6y ago
      No one is condemning the drivers for anything.
      • arcanon 6y ago
        Boston dynamics and autopilot are about to condemn the drivers...
  • chemmail 6y ago
    We cannot put it past that if they not meet the quotas, they will get fired. So its either pee in a cup or get fired.
  • smt88 6y ago
    The Intercept article covers that possibility. The workers they interview say that the issue is the time crunch, not the lack of bathrooms.
    • Jommi 6y ago
      Could be related. No time to find s bathroom.
  • lumberingjack 6y ago
    Yep bathrooms are closed so usually most of my drivers pee in a cornfield somewhere and then don't wash their hands at all.