“…one reporter who went undercover as a warehouse worker for six months comparing it to a stint in prison.”
Regardless of the accuracy of such a judgement, it is one a newspaper can hold and still remain honest and accurate. If that same paper has declared itself such an arbiter of the things threatening the country’s foundations, one would expect it to investigate all the controversies facing all facets of American society.
In the case of WaPo’s coverage, there exists one growing controversy that has remained conspicuously uncovered: the conditions of Amazon’s workplace.
Such conditions have been covered extensively in the mainstream press. A number of Amazon’s warehouse workforce has long complained about abusive conditions, with one reporter who went undercover as a warehouse worker for six months comparing it to a stint in prison.
“I’ve worked in warehouses before, but this was nothing like I had experienced. You don’t have proper breaks — by the time you get to the canteen, you only have 15 or 20 minutes for lunch, in a 10-1/2-hour working day. You don’t have time to eat properly to get a drink,” the writer, James Bloodworth, told Business Insider.
A series of features in Pennsylvania’s The Morning Call outlines other disturbing conditions faced by Amazon workers at a Breinigsville warehouse. MORE
frankly, I find a great amount of schadenfreude in a article that steps on Dr. Evil’s crank …………. buuuuuuuuuut, I don’t see where the ‘author’ compares Warehouse work to prison …. yes, he whines about standing outside during a fire alarm, but hyperbola is, to a large degree, what brought us to this division
…. maybe I missed it … maybe I’m celebrating Friday too early …
Warehouse stories?….you want warehouse stories?….I got warehouse stories, That’s why I became an art major. majoring in beer and girls…I learned to drive big trucks and equipment….welding didn’t hurt either…
Yeah, a reporter that goes undercover and discovers what “work” actually is. Cries like a baby because he only has 20 minutes to eat his lunch. I rarely took 20 minutes to eat lunch in the 40 years I worked. I always had work to get done. It is no surprise and certainly not news that reporters are lazy crybabies.
See Shells To Sea Shore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFWB-_ZqZ9k
Why did Dr. Evil allowed this story in his own newspaper?
I grew up on a dairy farm I bet I was working harder at age 14 than anyone at Amazons
warehouse. Which is probably heated in the winter and cooled in the summer. I worked 8 to
10 hours every day 24/7. And slept a lot in school. People are snowflakes
Sounds like a fairly uncomplicated job in a controlled environment. I’m betting they’ve never worked on a construction, road, or roofing crew. Or the military. Bunch of bitches.
As long as we’re sharing personal experiences: The new norm on a medical surgical floor is 7 patients for 1 nurse. Used to be 4 to 1. Which means your 12 hour shift is really 14 or even 16. You run your ass off because they’ve usually reassigned the floor CNA to sit with a psych patient that doesn’t belong on your unit but hey, you had an empty bed so the house supervisor placed them anyway. No time to eat but they illegally dock you for a 30 minute break that you didn’t take. Eventually a class action lawsuit might get you some of that money back….
You’re not allowed to keep a drink at the nurses station and any food must be kept in the break room that you usually can’t get to. Hospitals are now removing chairs from nurses stations to prevent anyone from appearing to not be working while they chart. This pisses the doctors off to no end because they also chart in the nurses station. So the expectation is that you stand for 14 hours because someone complained to management that a nurse was sitting down when their loved one needed something.
P.S. things have gotten so bad with workloads I will readily tell every last one of you do NOT let a loved one be unaccompanied in the hospital.
As a college student I worked unloading UPS trucks.
It paid well at the time but was the most labor intensive jobs ever.
During the five minute break I went straight to the water cooler.
They were only four hour shifts but you left soaking wet, even in Winter.
I wouldn’t wish that friggin job on anyone!
Well, perhaps a leftist. 🙂