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Amazon gives its employees mindfulness booths at work. Critics call them ‘despair boxes’
RT ^ | 5-27-21 | RT

Posted on 05/27/2021 8:31:07 PM PDT by dynachrome

Bates’ experience seems to be a common one among employees at Amazon’s ‘fulfilment centers,’ who in some locations have been struggling to unionize against the wishes of their superiors. The retail giant regularly features on the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health’s ‘Dirty Dozen’ list of unsafe employers, with the most recent pre-pandemic report citing 13 fatalities since 2013, “a high incidence of suicide attempts,” and “workers urinating in bottles because they are afraid to take breaks.”

However, Amazon has supposedly noticed the toll its workplace takes on employees’ mental health and has given them something back: “a space where our employees could focus on their mental well-being,” according to a video posted by Amazon to Twitter on Wednesday – only for it to be deleted hours later.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Humor; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: amazon; booth; mindfulness
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Maybe instead of being fired, you just disappear after entering one.
1 posted on 05/27/2021 8:31:07 PM PDT by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome

Video of a booth:

https://twitter.com/SsamanMardi/status/1398040755055337476?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1398040755055337476%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fusa%2F525003-amazon-mindfulness-booth-dystopia%2F


2 posted on 05/27/2021 8:32:28 PM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: dynachrome

I had to meet some AWS execs at amazon once, I was not impressed by the workspace at all.

Microsoft recently was even worse, I wonder if they will go back to offices after the disaster they called open space.


3 posted on 05/27/2021 8:35:58 PM PDT by algore
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To: dynachrome

You know there are cameras videoing the occupants of these booth’s, which are smaller than a tiny closet.

What a screwed up company. So bad you need to stoop to this level of jackassery.


4 posted on 05/27/2021 8:40:34 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dynachrome

5 posted on 05/27/2021 8:51:43 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: dynachrome
Futurama already did it.


6 posted on 05/27/2021 8:55:14 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Police should refuse duty at NBA venues. Let them wallow in their desired chaos without police.)
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To: monkeyshine

BTTT!!!


7 posted on 05/27/2021 8:56:20 PM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: dynachrome

they’d prolly spend the time going to the john instead


8 posted on 05/27/2021 9:08:14 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: dynachrome

Why not a chapel?

Oh wait. We must be all about me.


9 posted on 05/27/2021 9:16:29 PM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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“workers urinating in bottles because they are afraid to take breaks.”

Next thing you know the girls will learn to write their names too!

10 posted on 05/27/2021 9:30:54 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: dynachrome

As I understand it, the Bidenites likely can’t stop Amazon from buying MGM Studios even though it will only make Amazon more dominant in e-shopping and kill even more employees and small businesses. Anyway, watch Fascist progressive heads explode as a big Tech gets bigger.


11 posted on 05/27/2021 9:51:40 PM PDT by No_Mas_Obama
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To: dynachrome

Anyone remember the “empathy boxes” in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? We’re living in a Philip K. Dick novel now.


12 posted on 05/27/2021 10:07:31 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: irishjuggler

Yep and pre-crime is a thing now too. The Feds are busy monitoring citizens for criminal thoughts. Good thing they can’t read my mind yet.


13 posted on 05/27/2021 11:19:49 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY
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To: dynachrome

Jeff Beelzebub

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sum ting wong

BIG MIKE too


14 posted on 05/28/2021 12:19:42 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: dynachrome

And many Freepers openly mocked those refusing to work at Amazon fulfillment centers as being mooches, d-bags and leeches (often Amazon or fast food are the only games in town job-wise)


15 posted on 05/28/2021 12:23:20 AM PDT by Starcitizen (So Indian H1B crybaby trash runs Free Republic moderation??? Seems so. )
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To: irishjuggler
The "confession booth" from THX 1138:


16 posted on 05/28/2021 12:44:04 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (#notmypedophile)
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To: dynachrome

The Nestle Chill Zone room did have coloring books and
puzzles, etc.. Give yourself a therapy session now
courtesy of Human Resources.


17 posted on 05/28/2021 1:18:55 AM PDT by Scram1
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To: irishjuggler
We’re living in a Philip K. Dick novel now.

Couldn't sleep this morning, so I started watching "The Man In The high Castle". After 3 episodes, I started thinking the same thing. People who aren't supposed to are beginning to understand, or at least suspect, the truth, and the powers that be a desperate to suppress it.

18 posted on 05/28/2021 3:08:54 AM PDT by Turbo Pig ('to close with and destroy the enemy")
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To: petitfour

“Oh wait. We must be all about me”

That’s key. My goal next time this abomination is discussed is to ask people if they could try not focusing on their breathing, but the first paragraph of John’s gospel.


19 posted on 05/28/2021 3:14:28 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: dynachrome

If they use one of these booths then their employee file is stamped in big letters “WUSS”


20 posted on 05/28/2021 10:01:00 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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