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I do not normally post on non-technical matters, but I want to say I stopped buying from Amazon a few years ago now; it was because of how warehouse staff are t
by Max-Ganz-II 4y ago
I do not normally post on non-technical matters, but I want to say I stopped buying from Amazon a few years ago now; it was because of how warehouse staff are treated.
It looks to me a bit like I left at just the right time.
This story is absolutely appalling. Amazon are being manipulated, have become a dagger in the hands of the unscrupulous, and seem absolutely unable and unwilling to act.
To my eye here Amazon are in part culpable; if you are going to implement mechanisms which can be misused in this way, without adequate safeguards, you bear some responsibility for their misuse.
Amazon are I would say now beginning to go the way of Facebook; vast still, but they have lost the plot, are compromising their core functionality, and are alienating their customers, who are both horrified at such behaviour, and harmed by it.
- fastball 4y agoAre Amazon warehouse workers being treated any worse than other warehouse workers, or do they merely get more coverage because they work for a tech company that is also paying six fig salaries to software engineers?
- anonymoushn 4y agoNormal warehouse jobs don't let a computer fire workers for pissing too often so yeah
- m-ee 4y agoThey have injury rates well above other warehouses https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/12/study-amazon-workers-suffer-serious-injuries-at-twice-rate-of-rivals.html https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/12/study-amazon-workers-suffer-...
- epakai 4y agoAmazon is a lot more strict. I worked in a warehouse before and after Amazon bought the company. Afterwards all decisions came from high up. There is no employee consideration. Just a desire for better numbers so you will now suffer these decisions. After I left they put a literal cage with turnstile around the warehouse entrance. Place looks like a prison now.