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WalterBright 3y ago
People have always peed in bottles when they're on a long drive, piloting an airplane long distance, on a sailboat, and so on. Some peoples' bladders have a short fuse, and carry a bottle. Do you think Lindberg brought a port-a-potty along with his Spirit of St Louis? I remember the opening sequence in a Jeff Bridges movie where he pulls over in his car and dumps his pee bottle. P.S. My dad was a B-17 navigator in WW2. I asked him what did they do when had to go. He said an empty ammo box was used. What was done with the full box? "Extra bombs over Germany!"
- yoyohello13 3y ago
  Oh good! We should all aspire to have our work conditions resemble WWII B-17 crews.
  - WalterBright 3y ago
    I figgered someone would fixate on that. Well done!
    - vacuity 3y ago
      You did just imply that peeing in bottles is fairly reasonable for certain hectic environments. Perhaps so, but you'd need another explanation for why it's reasonable for a workplace like Amazon's warehouses to embody that. I think there should at least be heavy scrutiny towards that premise.
      - WalterBright 3y ago
        It's not the horrible thing it's made out to be. Some people may even find it preferable to unsanitary, unsafe restrooms. Heck, during the recent pandemic, all the public restrooms were locked closed. What do you think people do when they go hiking?
        vacuity 3y ago
        So Amazon can't afford to provide sanitary, safe restrooms and not overwork its employees? I don't think people go hiking because they're running from a bear or wildfire; they do it because they feel like it, and so they plan accordingly.
- guhidalg 3y ago
  Just read the story https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehamilton/2023/05/24/delivery-drivers-sue-amazon-for-being-forced-to-pee-in-bottles/?sh=8bbc6f4333a0 https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehamilton/2023/05/24/de... I'd rather live in a world where Amazon employees have time to pee on the job and Jeff Bezos has $10M less. Iterate until Jeff Bezos only makes ~10^2 what the median Amazon employee makes instead of ~10^6.
  - u32480932048 3y ago
    At that scale, Amazon would just be warehouses of people pissing in bottles. They'd have to piss all day and all night until the heat death of the universe, just to cost him even one billion. So few people realize the scale of a billion :(
  - WalterBright 3y ago
    Nobody makes anybody work for Amazon. You're also free to create your own Amazon and run it as you see fit.

People have always peed in bottles when they're on a long drive, piloting an airplane long distance, on a sailboat, and so on. Some peoples' bladders have a short fuse, and carry a bottle. Do you think Lindberg brought a port-a-potty along with his Spirit of St Louis? I remember the opening sequence in a Jeff Bridges movie where he pulls over in his car and dumps his pee bottle. P.S. My dad was a B-17 navigator in WW2. I asked him what did they do when had to go. He said an empty ammo box was used. What was done with the full box? "Extra bombs over Germany!"

yoyohello13 3y ago
Oh good! We should all aspire to have our work conditions resemble WWII B-17 crews.
- WalterBright 3y ago
  I figgered someone would fixate on that. Well done!
  - vacuity 3y ago
    You did just imply that peeing in bottles is fairly reasonable for certain hectic environments. Perhaps so, but you'd need another explanation for why it's reasonable for a workplace like Amazon's warehouses to embody that. I think there should at least be heavy scrutiny towards that premise.
    - WalterBright 3y ago
      It's not the horrible thing it's made out to be. Some people may even find it preferable to unsanitary, unsafe restrooms. Heck, during the recent pandemic, all the public restrooms were locked closed. What do you think people do when they go hiking?
      - vacuity 3y ago
        So Amazon can't afford to provide sanitary, safe restrooms and not overwork its employees? I don't think people go hiking because they're running from a bear or wildfire; they do it because they feel like it, and so they plan accordingly.
guhidalg 3y ago
Just read the story https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehamilton/2023/05/24/delivery-drivers-sue-amazon-for-being-forced-to-pee-in-bottles/?sh=8bbc6f4333a0 https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehamilton/2023/05/24/de... I'd rather live in a world where Amazon employees have time to pee on the job and Jeff Bezos has $10M less. Iterate until Jeff Bezos only makes ~10^2 what the median Amazon employee makes instead of ~10^6.
- u32480932048 3y ago
  At that scale, Amazon would just be warehouses of people pissing in bottles. They'd have to piss all day and all night until the heat death of the universe, just to cost him even one billion. So few people realize the scale of a billion :(
- WalterBright 3y ago
  Nobody makes anybody work for Amazon. You're also free to create your own Amazon and run it as you see fit.