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Can you cite this? Or is this just drivel?

rurounijones 12y ago
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-free-online-shipping-warehouses-labor http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-f... http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/16/amazon-strikers-take-their-fight-to-seattle/ http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/16/amazon-strikers-tak... Are the two cases that come to mind. (First link may not be Amazon, but appears to be representative of conditions in warehouses for the pickers and it links to plenty of other sources that ARE amazon)
matrixagent 12y ago
This issue is so universally known by now that it's almost insulting for you to even question it as "drivel". How can you be not aware of these issues? http://www.businessinsider.com/brutal-conditions-in-amazons-warehouses-2013-8 http://www.businessinsider.com/brutal-conditions-in-amazons-... http://www.salon.com/2014/02/23/worse_than_wal_mart_amazons_sick_brutality_and_secret_history_of_ruthlessly_intimidating_workers/ http://www.salon.com/2014/02/23/worse_than_wal_mart_amazons_... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/07/amazon-warehouse-workers-lunch-breaks_n_5283329.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/07/amazon-warehouse-wo... http://recode.net/2014/06/30/amazon-was-a-prison-says-former-worker/ http://recode.net/2014/06/30/amazon-was-a-prison-says-former... http://www.businessinsider.com/brutal-conditions-in-amazons-warehouses-2013-8 http://www.businessinsider.com/brutal-conditions-in-amazons-...
- madeofpalk 12y ago
  http://xkcd.com/1053/ http://xkcd.com/1053/
  - pessimizer 12y ago
    You might expect someone to google amazon + warehouse before accusing people of talking "drivel," though.
    - g8gggu89 12y ago
      One might expect you to be able to differentiate between a question and an accusation.
      - pessimizer 12y ago
        I'm accusing you of asking before googling.
72deluxe 12y ago
Citation: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/01/week-amazon-insider-feature-treatment-employees-work http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/01/week-amazo...

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-free-online-shipping-warehouses-labor http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-f... http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/16/amazon-strikers-take-their-fight-to-seattle/ http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/16/amazon-strikers-tak... Are the two cases that come to mind. (First link may not be Amazon, but appears to be representative of conditions in warehouses for the pickers and it links to plenty of other sources that ARE amazon)

matrixagent 12y ago

This issue is so universally known by now that it's almost insulting for you to even question it as "drivel". How can you be not aware of these issues? http://www.businessinsider.com/brutal-conditions-in-amazons-warehouses-2013-8 http://www.businessinsider.com/brutal-conditions-in-amazons-... http://www.salon.com/2014/02/23/worse_than_wal_mart_amazons_sick_brutality_and_secret_history_of_ruthlessly_intimidating_workers/ http://www.salon.com/2014/02/23/worse_than_wal_mart_amazons_... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/07/amazon-warehouse-workers-lunch-breaks_n_5283329.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/07/amazon-warehouse-wo... http://recode.net/2014/06/30/amazon-was-a-prison-says-former-worker/ http://recode.net/2014/06/30/amazon-was-a-prison-says-former... http://www.businessinsider.com/brutal-conditions-in-amazons-warehouses-2013-8 http://www.businessinsider.com/brutal-conditions-in-amazons-...

madeofpalk 12y ago
http://xkcd.com/1053/ http://xkcd.com/1053/
- pessimizer 12y ago
  You might expect someone to google amazon + warehouse before accusing people of talking "drivel," though.
  - g8gggu89 12y ago
    One might expect you to be able to differentiate between a question and an accusation.
    - pessimizer 12y ago
      I'm accusing you of asking before googling.

72deluxe 12y ago

Citation: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/01/week-amazon-insider-feature-treatment-employees-work http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/01/week-amazo...