Posted on 11/26/2017 11:23:05 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
Amazon's staff are falling asleep on their feet and being taken away in ambulances as they struggle to meet warehouse targets, an investigation has claimed.
Cameras monitor every move as employees try to process up to 300 items an hour, it has been alleged. Screens remind them if they are falling short.
Exhausted staff are said to cover clocks so they are not reminded how long there is to go on their shifts, and have to walk up to a third of a mile to use the toilet.
The claims in a newspaper were made about the online retailer’s newest warehouse – which the company refers to as a ‘fulfilment centre’ – in Tilbury, Essex.
The packing plant is the biggest in Europe, the size of 11 football pitches, and is due to ship 1.2million items this year.
But the investigation, by an undercover reporter for the Sunday Mirror who spent five weeks there, suggested workers suffer mentally and physically as they try to meet demand.
He said that some of his colleagues were so tired from working 55-hour weeks that they would ‘sleep on their feet’.
‘Those who could not keep up with the punishing targets faced the sack – and some who buckled under the strain had to be attended by ambulance crews,’ he added.
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No job should be beneath anyone, and nobody should look down on any person for doing honest work. Garbage men and fast food workers are just as honorable as doctors and CEOs.
A lot of people work without air conditioning; construction workers, road pavers, roofers, in steel mills…etc.
No one to my knowledge is forcing anyone to work for Amazon. If they don’t like the working conditions, they are free to find work elsewhere.
Most of the work you listed is outdoors - duh!
Most people working in warehouses here WISH for 55 Hour weeks, but are cut off exactly at the hours when bennies kick in.
Welcome to life at the bottom of the food chain folks. When your primary job qualification is having a pulse you’re easy to replace and they don’t care if they burn you out.
Except that the other delivery services understand how to get packages to safety in theft prone areas (the nicer neighborhoods), and for some reason the USPS won’t do it, they take the packages back and leav those little notices. I hate that. I prefer the amazon trucks.
Ah, you were the guy who broke the porn sets post shooting in Chatsworth. Minimum wage and all the condoms and cocaine you can use.
Hmm. Maybe I should sue the Navy for months of 18 hour workdays and regular 36 and 24 hour Vietnam river patrols.
We’re you on Swifts? My brother(RIP) served on Swifts, twin .50’s
Sewage treatment plant at a trucker motel full of prostitutes.
They paid you to go yachting?
Picket boats. Old mahogany beasts built in 1944 and resurrected for Vietnam. But twin 50s yes! Ma Deuce. Accept no substitute.
Yes. $200 per month incl combat pay. A fortune! Mainly because there was no way to spend it. Lol!
These poor snowflakes!!!! I worked in a factory in the early 1980's that had zero air conditioning and I worked on hot wax machines that were literally a foot or two away doing repairs, keeping them going so the cups McDonalds uses for their cold drinks got a proper seal. Those hot wax machines were easily running at 250+ degrees in a factory with no AC on a hot summer day where it was 95 outside, the factory floor was easily over 110F.
And I did that for at least 8 hours a day (took the overtime when I could get it) and I was GLAD to have the job!
These snowflakes don't know what a hard days work is, all they know how to do is whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine!!! (Just like my ex-wife)
What about filling sand bags while in MOP gear (chem suit), in the desert at 120f in the shade? 16-hour days for months without one day off? My last deployment was 14/7/181-4 days for sightseeing. LOL
Amazon runs their crews ragged, but they don’t break laws. They employ a few lawyers whom they pay quite well to ensure the strict legality of their actions. As for morale, that’s not as big a concern. Turnover saves money from their perspective.
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