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I have to say I am impressed by Amazon spokesperson Rachael Lighty that she is able to produce the comment like this: "We’re committed to giving our employees
by piokoch 5y ago
I have to say I am impressed by Amazon spokesperson Rachael Lighty that she is able to produce the comment like this:
"We’re committed to giving our employees the resources they need to be successful, creating time for regular breaks and a comfortable pace."
with a straight face, while being presented with the facts that the opposite is true.
"“Three times,” she said she responded, thinking about how it took five minutes to walk each way across the warehouse floor to get to the bathroom."
My guess is that Amazon managers, facing this horrible fact that people have to walk 5 min to the toilet, would introduce some innovative ML-driven solution like "fast portable toilet" (that is a pee bottles that employees will have to carry with them and managers will be cheering up that the solution fully meets all the company diversity and inclusion standards).
- bushbaba 5y agoA warehouse is huge. A 5min walk to the restroom isn’t unreasonable. Id assume it takes a similar amount of time at usps, ups, fedex, and most large-scale domestic manufacturing facilities
- alistairSH 5y agoTrue, but Amazon apparently ignores that fact when calculating bathroom break time. 60 minutes of bathroom time isn't unreasonable over a 10 hour shift, if 30+ minutes of that is walking to/from the bathroom.
- ThePadawan 5y agoI've worked (in software) for a retailer before and did a "day in the life" of a warehouse employee. This was overall not a great company that gave two shits about their employees. But they did have the punch clock in a central location, near the bathrooms. To be able to punch out, you need to walk your ass over there in the first place. And that's how it should be.
- mchusma 5y agoThose aren't facts, they are a fired employees opinion.