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Amazon worker dies on warehouse floor. Workers told to keep going
- nslsm 7mo ago[flagged]
- ffsm8 7mo agoYou consider it normal working condition if you're right next to the corpse of a colleague? As in literally, because that's what the article is about: being made to work right next to the corpse In think that's quiet extreme, honestly. Wat beyond what it'd expect any supervisor to ask of the employees. most people have some connections to their co-workers. And if one of your friends dies right in front of you... it should be human decency to at least give then some time to settle until the body has been taken care off.
- skeuomorphism 7mo agoYoure responding to an account less than a month old
- ffsm8 7mo agoAh, I didn't check that. Thanks for pointing that out. I guess that was me interacting with a bot
- deleted 7mo ago[deleted]
- luxuryballs 7mo agoI expect to be working until I’m dead also
- 6stringmerc 7mo agoHow much do you have set aside for a service or burial or cremation? It came up during an argument recently with a family member, so if your outlook is that bleak, try not to shuffle off this mortal coil and leave us in the hole to put you in one. Please.
- queenkjuul 7mo agoJust throw me in the trash
- 6stringmerc 7mo agoThat is not a viable solution in the United States. Perhaps you live in India or Brazil where such solutions are legal? If not, when are you moving to such a country?
- hulitu 7mo ago> That is not a viable solution in the United States I saw a documentary on Discovery Channel, about 20 years ago when this channel still had something to offer, about New York mafia, where they stated that the New York mafia threw their victims in the garbage.
- beAbU 7mo agoWhat would I care though? I'll be dead!
- queenkjuul 6mo agoIt's a joke from the show Always Sunny
- xtiansimon 7mo agoCremate me and flush me down the toilet, or turn me into pebbles-- https://www.core77.com/posts/109631/Better-UX-for-Cremation-Turning-Ash-Remains-Into-Smooth-Pebbles https://www.core77.com/posts/109631/Better-UX-for-Cremation-...
- qwertyuiop_ 7mo ago[dead]
- codeddesign 7mo ago[dead]
- jmclnx 7mo agoLets hope the lawyers for the poor person's family and the workers forced to keep working are very good at their job.
- hackingonempty 7mo agoAmazon employs around 900,000 people in logistics. The crude annual mortality rate in the USA is around 911/100,000. If there are 900,000 employees working eight hours a day then around seven people a day are dying of natural causes on their shift. This is without considering that they are being worked to the bone. >>> .00911 * (8 / (24 * 365)) * 900000 = 7.487671232876712
- queenkjuul 7mo agoAnd making people continue to work when their coworker just died on the floor is nonetheless inhumane
- DivingForGold 7mo agoSounds like something out of a dystopian movie
- hulitu 7mo agoYou have a deadline. /s
- acdha 7mo agoThis only works if you assuming the mortality rates are evenly distributed. Most of the people who die are not working right until the end—and the conditions which lead to them dying usually aren’t compatible with a demanding job.
- hackingonempty 7mo agoYou are correct that it is a rough estimate but my point stands. While most of us will never experience the shock of someone dying at work, it is an every day occurrence at the scale of Amazon.
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- 6stringmerc 7mo agoWhy do I get the feeling Bezos will try to lobby to have the law allow Amazon to harvest dead employees’ organs and sell them for profit if they die in a warehouse? Logical extension of standard business mentality, if you’re honest enough.
- burnt-resistor 7mo agoWhile we're not there yet and it's not a self-fulfilling prophecy, dead peasant insurance exists so it's possible that Amazon immediately cashed in on this worker's terrible death.
- raks619 7mo ago[flagged]
- Moomoomoo309 7mo agoYes. Respect for the human who just died is more important than money, and I'm saddened you don't see that.