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Amazon warehouses are ‘cult-like’ sweatshops run by robots: ex-employee
NY Post ^ | November 30, 2019 | 4:39pm | Dean Balsamini

Posted on 11/30/2019 2:21:54 PM PST by conservative98

Maureen Donnelly took a job with Amazon when the retail goliath opened a fulfillment center on Staten Island in September 2018. The 46-year-old Staten Islander quit after just one month. Last week, more than 100 workers and their supporters gathered outside the same 855,000-square-foot packing plant to protest working conditions and spotlight newly released data showing the rate of worker injury there was three times higher than the national average for similar warehouse work. Here Donnelly tells Post reporter Dean Balsamini what is was like to work for Jeff Bezos’ Amazon, which the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health included on its 2019 “Dirty Dozen” list of the nation’s most dangerous employers. Amazon did not immediately return comment.

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To: CatOwner

Not to mention that if you make known your love of country, you go on the shiff list.


21 posted on 11/30/2019 2:46:30 PM PST by Track9
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To: coaster123
Working woman. She gets my support.

These are the people that voted for Trump and gave him the margin of victory.

22 posted on 11/30/2019 2:46:34 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Track9

I clicked on the link and all I got was her picture.

Many years ago there was a documentary on PBS about IBM. It appeared to be a cult. Employees sang songs about T.J. Watson.


23 posted on 11/30/2019 2:46:52 PM PST by scrabblehack
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To: conservative98

oh boo hoo. Sorry if that offends anybody. There are 2 sides to every story. I’d like to see Amazon’s handbook. I’m fairly certain that everything required is noted in it.


24 posted on 11/30/2019 2:47:48 PM PST by LibertyWoman
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To: scrabblehack

https://nypost.com/2019/11/30/amazon-warehouses-are-cult-like-sweatshops-run-by-robots-ex-employee/


25 posted on 11/30/2019 2:48:53 PM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98

People run the robots, just so you all know. Everyone will know when the robots run the people.


26 posted on 11/30/2019 2:49:21 PM PST by mmercier0921 (simple man)
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To: scrabblehack

The beatings will continue until moral improves.


27 posted on 11/30/2019 2:49:55 PM PST by Track9
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To: Macoozie

Metropolis.


28 posted on 11/30/2019 2:50:12 PM PST by OKSooner (Free Beer Tomorrow)
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To: LibertyWoman
“oh boo hoo. Sorry if that offends anybody”

Don't worry, no one cares.

“I am fairly certain...”

Close enough.

29 posted on 11/30/2019 2:52:35 PM PST by coaster123 (Distrust everyone under fifty.)
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To: conservative98; All
Never been in an Amazon warehouse so don’t know if returned picts are good examples.

duckduckgo:

Amazon warehouses (select “Images” at top left area of page)

30 posted on 11/30/2019 2:53:21 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: conservative98
My son works at Amazon "flagship" distribution center.....he's been there 3.5 years. Has had several promotions with pay increases. Full medical, 401K match, generous PTO, and other perks such as OCRA card which he can use anytime on any public transit in WA.

BUT this time of year there is mandatory OT, and can't take vacation days. He says it's no place for whiners or slackers.

31 posted on 11/30/2019 2:54:10 PM PST by noexcuses
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To: conservative98

Well obviously working for Amazon ages you too


32 posted on 11/30/2019 3:01:48 PM PST by jonsie
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To: conservative98

they almost have to be like that, they’re warehouses operating with high volume and quick shipping/delivery deadlines

i would not personally choose to work in such a place
but so long as they maintain safe working conditions and nobody is forced to sign up there...what’s the beef?


33 posted on 11/30/2019 3:06:17 PM PST by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: CatOwner

If one has ever hired personnel, one knows it takes time to figure out undesirable individual behavior problems. I work on a quicker cycle... two weeks. I fire them, the owner rehires them because he is like that. Suffer them for a bit... then he fires them.

I fired my own wife twice. He rehired her twice, and bitched at me hard. Still won’t fire me for some reason.

She worked her way into a critical position... then quit.

You can only laugh.


34 posted on 11/30/2019 3:09:37 PM PST by mmercier0921 ( living in a world of make believe)
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To: conservative98

[Absolutely no cellphones on the floor! They didn’t want anybody taking pictures or giving away their secrets! No food. No drinks — except water.]


I think the phone rationale is pretty clear - no wasting time on social media or personal calls. And the water thing is just a way of preventing sticky juice or soda spills. Once someone figures out a way to unionize Amazon, it will be just like the unionized delivery giants - FedEx, UPS and the Postal service, i.e. the phone and water restrictions will be abolished.

Bezos is looking to get the delivery operations at least as efficient as FedEx and UPS before he bows to the inevitable Department of Labor edict. His problem is that once Amazon’s package handling and delivery people are unionized, Prime 2nd day delivery will be too unprofitable to sustain.


35 posted on 11/30/2019 3:34:34 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Mariner

You’re absolutely correct, other than a triple the average injury rate, but who cares about those little deplorable workers anyhow, right?

Now why is it that conservatism gets a bad name?


36 posted on 11/30/2019 3:38:34 PM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: conservative98

[By the second week, I just wanted out. I stayed as long as I did because of my father. I wanted him to be happy that I had a job.]


I’m sure she’s got a good heart, but this doesn’t sound like the kind of person who’s cut out for the private sector.


37 posted on 11/30/2019 3:39:56 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: conservative98
this doesn't add up.

one, says she's an EMT, WHY IN THE HELL is she working as a stocker if she's an EMT? i don't believe that one

two, I wanted nights, because I had a day job working as a bar manager. By the second week, I just wanted out. I stayed as long as I did because of my father. I wanted him to be happy that I had a job.

if she's a bar manager isn't that a job to make her daddy happy?

three, In the end, I didn’t get stock.

i'm pretty sure you have to be there at least a year to get the stock option and were told that by HR, how long was she actually there? not a year that's for sure

38 posted on 11/30/2019 3:40:03 PM PST by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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To: LibertyWoman

I worked at HQ in Seattle - an office job - it was ok and pay was great...it was the commute that sucked. A relative worked there a few years before doing some sort of tech work and he left horrified at the treatment of employees. He just isn’t the type of guy who gets yelled at.


39 posted on 11/30/2019 3:49:53 PM PST by Aria
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To: Don W

“other than a triple the average injury rate”

These jobs have fewer injuries than the construction trades but are nearly as taxing.

If you are not young and fit, don’t even try it.


40 posted on 11/30/2019 3:51:17 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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