• willyaA
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    8 months ago

    I worked at Amazon. Maybe certain facilities are possibly like this but it’s complete horseshit from lazy ass employees from what I’ve witnessed.

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      8 months ago

      "Are the work expectations exceedingly high and strenuous?

      No, it’s the employees that are lazy."

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        8 months ago

        I’m saying I worked in it and witnessed everything first hand. Most people that talk shit about it only know what they’ve read in articles and run with it. Like everything else in the world.

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            8 months ago

            I worked on the transportation team in their early stages. It was fast paced for sure. It has to be though. It was great learning the ins and outs of trucking and getting my CDL all while being able to be a nerd and code/develop while having downtime in the guard shack.

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              8 months ago

              “it has to be though”. I’m sure Amazon told you that, but what would happen if it wasn’t? Would the giant multinational corporation really fail if workers were allowed to take pee breaks universally instead of some having to pee in bottles? Would it really fail if workers had an extra 15 minutes of breaks per day? Would it really fail if workers got another 0.0013% of the profits?

              Class warfare is real. If you’re happy to just listen to your corporate masters, more power to you, just try not to bring everyone else down with you. Some people enjoy longer breaks, less intense working environments, and better pay. Advocate for and with those workers, and then when the protections are in place go pee in a bottle to save those precious few minutes for Amazon, as long as nobody else has to.

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                8 months ago

                Is this first hand experience or article reading? None of what you’re saying applied to the record breaking facilities I worked in. Maybe it did elsewhere but all I’m getting across is I worked in two facilities where this shit wasn’t true at all.

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                  8 months ago

                  Are you claiming all the articles on this topic are hoaxes and the reports about widespread terrible working conditions are overblown because of your one anecdote? If not, what are you claiming?

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                    8 months ago

                    Nothing. Enjoy arguing on the internet about things you only read about.