• Nevoic@lemm.ee
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    1 year 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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      1 year 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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        1 year 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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          1 year ago

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

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            1 year ago

            I know several people who have worked at Amazon. So I have second hand experience. Maybe you think only workers of Amazon should have opinions on the topic, but that’s necessarily elevating anecdotes to a position they have no place being. You need to understand the difference between a single instance of a job and the general statistical tendency of a job.