BBC: Amazon Workers Face "Increased Risk of Mental Illness" 321
Rambo Tribble writes "The BBC is reporting that an investigation into a UK-based Amazon facility has uncovered conditions that experts believe foster mental illness. At the root of the problem seems to be unreasonable performance expectations combined with a fundamentally dehumanizing environment. From the article: 'Amazon said that official safety inspections had not raised any concerns and that an independent expert appointed by the company advised that the picking job is "similar to jobs in many other industries and does not increase the risk of mental and physical illness."'"
The bourgeoisie creates its own gravediggers (Score:2, Funny)
Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!
Re:Amazon brutal, but not a convenient liberal cau (Score:3, Funny)
This Thanksgiving I am going to hear from all of my pro-union family members about how evil Walmart (my employer) is, and how they treat their employees. All the while comparing books they are reading on their Kindles and shopping for Kindle Fires for their kids.
Liberals are so awesomely hypocritical.
So we trade families for Thanksgiving. You can have my awesomely hypocritical conservative in-laws instead.
Re:Amazon brutal, but not a convenient liberal cau (Score:5, Funny)
Why would you two trade families when you can get married and have the worst of both worlds at the same time?
BOZOS for BEZOS! (Score:4, Funny)
Hell comes to your house, one box at a time!
mod parent up (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Amazon brutal, but not a convenient liberal cau (Score:3, Funny)
And then they eat the steak, well-cooked by the straw-fueled flames.
Re:"similar to" (Score:2, Funny)
Bullshit!
I've done jobs worse than that and I didn't go crazy! GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHAHAHAAAAAAHHHH!
*runs away, hands flailing*
Re:Amazon brutal, but not a convenient liberal cau (Score:5, Funny)
Re:11 Miles a shift? (Score:4, Funny)
Accidentally? How did that work? Did you think it was a sysadmin job when they were talking about mail delivery system?
He just means he has been collecting pay checks from the USPS for decades, but accidentally, in spite of himself, without really meaning to, inadvertently, he performed some activities that turned out to be working.
Re:"similar to" (Score:5, Funny)
But we can't all run around naked in the forest eating nuts and berries.
I do this all the time and nobody has sent me a paycheck yet!!!! Fucking monster.com..LIES.
Re:Amazon brutal, but not a convenient liberal cau (Score:4, Funny)
Yes, it's really amazing we haven't yet declared ourselves mentally ill, for putting people first. I mean, really -- minimum wages? Food and shelter? Safety regulations? Non-discrimination in the workplace? Civil rights? Healthcare? Are we nuts?!?
Re:Amazon brutal, but not a convenient liberal cau (Score:5, Funny)
"My liberal family members are hypocrites, therefore all liberals are hypocrites"
Your conservative reasoning is awesome.
Re:"similar to" (Score:5, Funny)
What do you mean "intended as humor"??? GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHAHAHAAAAAAHHHH!
*runs away, hands flailing*
Re:"similar to" (Score:5, Funny)
Amazon employees face a zero tolerance policy to talking to each other during work hours. Speak to anyone, lose your job.
Well that just seems like it would shut the warehouse down in a hurry.
First, one guy talks. "Man my legs are killing me!"
"You're fired!" says his supervisor... who is now going to get fired for talking on the job.
"You there, talking supervisor, you're fired for talking when you fired that guy!" And now *that* guy is next, and up it goes until Jeff Bezos finds himself out of a job.
I'm surprised it hasn't happened already.