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Amazon Says Sad Workers Can Shut Themselves in “Despair Closet”
Futurism ^ | Victor Tangermann

Posted on 05/29/2021 1:28:32 PM PDT by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at futurism.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: amazon; economy; jobs
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To: anthropocene_x

What no suicide nets!


21 posted on 05/29/2021 2:11:39 PM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: anthropocene_x

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

It’s a trap!

What the workers don’t know is that a “Despair Closet” is pretty much the same thing as a Roach Motel: once the workers enter, they never come out again ...


22 posted on 05/29/2021 2:11:46 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Prolly only a matter of time till a bunch of locked-in employees die in a fire.


23 posted on 05/29/2021 2:15:15 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: anthropocene_x

Little closet that makes you feel better...hmmm....is it the orgasmatron?


24 posted on 05/29/2021 2:16:49 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: anthropocene_x

Sure.

Red flag yourself by going into one of their booths.


25 posted on 05/29/2021 2:30:37 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: anthropocene_x

“AmaZen,” a phonebooth-sized box...

Waste of time. More productive would be phone booths with Bibles and rosaries.


26 posted on 05/29/2021 3:38:14 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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To: anthropocene_x

Google at least gives employees comfy pods. Amazon gives a cardboard box. Lol.


27 posted on 05/29/2021 3:42:44 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 )
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To: anthropocene_x
"It’s a out-of-touch move..."

It's a outrage! It's a atrocity! ;D

28 posted on 05/29/2021 4:46:49 PM PDT by familyop (Natural born slaves are easily led to distrust and hate their intellectual benefactors.)
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To: anthropocene_x

There’s an Amazon warehouse near me. In the mornings, the gas station nearby is loaded with Amazon vans and drivers grabbing coffee and snacks.

If they were such slave masters I highly doubt the drivers would be stopping me masse a mile from the warehouse.


29 posted on 05/29/2021 4:53:38 PM PDT by cyclotic (Live your life in such a way that they hate you as much as they hated Rush Limbaugh)
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To: anthropocene_x

Is that like going and crying in the walk in cooler?


30 posted on 05/29/2021 5:29:43 PM PDT by 31R1O
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To: anthropocene_x

Amazon Says Sad Workers Can Shut Themselves in “WUSS closet”


31 posted on 05/29/2021 9:05:40 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: Rurudyne
"Suicide booths can’t be far off."

Edward G. Robinson's ghost is summoned after a few minutes.

32 posted on 05/31/2021 5:20:32 AM PDT by Truth29
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