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This seems like a good thing, right? At least better then Amazon requiring these people to keep working. This sounds more like minor inquiries that are being te
by frankbreetz 4y ago
This seems like a good thing, right? At least better then Amazon requiring these people to keep working. This sounds more like minor inquiries that are being tended to appropriately.
- wollsmoth 4y agoIt kinda sounds like they are pushing the limits of what their employees can handle physically. Just seems like it'd be simpler to deal with less turnover and push them a little less. But then again I don't have an MBA.
- hn_version_0023 4y ago> But then again I don't have an MBA. Are you implying that the process of getting an MBA strips people of their humanity? IME, this seems to be true.
- beastcoast 4y agoAmazon is notorious for hiring MBAs in its senior most ranks.
- klyrs 4y agoI'm not sure you've got the causative arrow going the right way...
- bannedbybros 4y ago
- raxxorraxor 4y ago> This seems like a good thing, right? If your alternative is working to death I guess it is? Or was that a serious question?
- bearjaws 4y agoWorking with an injury for a month before going to a real DR does not seem good to me. Clear conflict of interest having your own urgent care on site IMO. Also that 5-8 people is probably a minority of people who actually get injured, since most will go to the onsite care or quit before even making it to a month with an injury. There's probably over a 1000 injuries a year at any given warehouse.
- cma 4y agoTesla had issues with this too: "Inside Tesla’s factory, a medical clinic designed to ignore injured workers" https://revealnews.org/article/inside-teslas-factory-a-medical-clinic-designed-to-ignore-injured-workers/ https://revealnews.org/article/inside-teslas-factory-a-medic...
- xibo9 4y agoThere are more than two possible scenarios other than "work to death" and "work to injury, constantly".