Amazon Says Sad Workers Can Shut Themselves in “Despair Closet”

Futurism ^ | Victor Tangermann

[anthropocene_x]

Amazon is being roasted for sharing a video of its “AmaZen,” a phonebooth-sized box where employees can go to “focus on their mental wellbeing.”

In other words, one of the largest companies in the world is offering its overworked employees a, well, box to sit in to watch mindfulness videos.

It’s a out-of-touch move for a company that already has a poor track record of squeezing every last drop of productivity out of its countless warehouse workers — and offering very little in return.

Just last month, the e-retailer admitted it had tried to cover up the fact its drivers have to routinely pee in water bottles.

Amazon warehouse conditions are infamously grueling, with penalties given out for taking too many breaks, a severe lack of bathrooms for delivery drivers, as well as higher than average chances of workplace injury.

[algore]

As long as there is a big red button that does not say what it does.

Monolith

[ClearCase_guy]

The term “sweat shop” is out of fashion. But I think people in the early Industrial Revolution may have had better lives. What would Dickens say?

[Ciaphas Cain]

George Lucas saw this coming:

[Betty Jane]

I bet they wish they could use slave labor like Apple and Nike.

[algore]

Something about the followers of Ned Ludd ?

[polymuser]

On the other side of the enclosure’s window, there’s an older white guy strapped in a chair with wires connected to him.

When the sad employee pushes the red button, the old white guy gets zapped.

Employees come out feeling much happier.

[Rurudyne]

Suicide booths can’t be far off.

[Eddie01]

I had a despair closet once.

[CodeToad]

“Suicide booths can’t be far off.”

Frankly, those would make me happy: Less liberal idiots. :)

[Veggie Todd]

Amazon warehouse conditions are infamously grueling...

Nobody is pointing a gun at their heads forcing them to work there.

[Vaquero]

a phonebooth-sized box where employees can go to “focus on their mental well being.”

And change into Superman?

[bigbob]

Isn’t that what the 3rd stall is for?

[humblegunner]

Just last month, the e-retailer admitted it had tried to cover up the fact its drivers have to routinely pee in water bottles.

Well now they can pee in the despair closet.

Get back to work.

[al baby]

How about comfort women

[Larry Lucido]

[gundog]

Idiots. Da spare closet is for ammo.

[fidelis]

We need some of those for the doom and gloomers here in FR. Lots of them.

[PGalt]

they need to come out of the closet and speak up.

[JonPreston]

We’re surrounded by mental cases.