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They are treated inhumanely.

In what capacity?

Here is an Amazon employee explaining the hellish working conditions of working at one of Amazon's warehouses:

Amazon employee here.

The post is pretty spot on. They don't monitor bathroom breaks, but you'r individual rate (or production goal) dosnt account for bathroom breaks, or... let's say there is a problem like you need 2 of something and there's only one left, well you have to put on your "andon"... wait for someone to come "fix" for you, all the while your rate is dropping. The 2 most common reasons pepole get fired are not hitting rate, and attendance. They don't really try to help you hit rate, they just fire and replace.

My first week there 2 pepole collapsed from dehydration. It's so common place to see someone collapse that nobody is even shocked anymore. You'll just hear a manager complain that he has to do some report now, while a couple of new pepole try to help the guy ( veterans won't risk helping becuse it drips rate). No sitting allowed, and there's nowhere to sit anywhere except the break rooms. Before the robots (they call them kivas) pickers would regularly walk 10-15 miles a day, now it's just stand for 10-12 hours a day.

Pepole complain about the heat all the time but we just get told 80 degrees ( Fahrenheit obviously) is a safe working temp. Some times they will pull out a thermometer, but even when it hits 85 they just say it's fine.

There's been deaths, at least one in my building... Amazon likes to keep it all hush hush. Heard about others, you can find the stories if you search for it, but Amazon does a good job burying it.

Every now and we have an inspection, where stuff like this should be cought and changed. But they just pretty it up. If the pepole doing the inspection looked at numbers on inspection day vs normal operation, they would see a massive difference... but no fucks givin.

The truth is the warehouses operate at a loss most the time, Amazon literly can't afford to pay the workers decent pay, and can't afford to not work them to death. The entire bussnius model is dependent on cheep (easily replacable) labor, which is why tier 1s are the bulk of the Amazon work force. My building has like 3-5k workers most the time and around 10-30k on the holiday ( what they call peak). Almost all of that is tier 1, most states have 4-7 of these warehouses, and some like Texas and Arizona have tons more.

Next time you order something off Amazon, remember it was put in that box buy a guy sweating his ass off trying to put 100-250 things in a box per hour, for 10 hours a day or he will be fired, making about a dollar more than minimum wage. Might have even been a night shift guy, who goes to work at 630pm and gets off at 5am.

Workers at Amazon warehouses across the nation have long complained about grueling working conditions. They say they have too few bathroom breaks, which are all timed, excessive productivity goals, and an unsafe working environment. The pandemic, they claim, only exacerbated problems as more people turned to delivery.

A video of ex-Amazon workers talk of the horrendous conditions:

Goodness me, conditions are terrible to say the least.

Thanks for the In depth reply.