Twisted Sifter: There are no shortage of negative stories floating around online about working for Amazon. Despite the availability of work and the fact that they provide benefits, most employees are salty about their assigned duties, the low pay, the lack of time off, the snacks in the break room, you name it.
A driver falling into a septic tank and worrying he would still have to finish his route is a new one, but that’s exactly what happened to Charles (@dovahkiin0103). He says he was walking past a hole on a customer’s property when the ground gave way. MORE
A friend of mine also says to be careful where you park your camper.
We need a new Amazon logo, smile upside down.
…so everyone after that point unknowingly got a package smeared with incubated feces…
Pro tip: Stay on the pavement.
Amazon docked his pay for the time spent in the tank.
Still better than having to listen to Springsteen.
What’s wrong with falling into a septic tank?
The guy better be taking massive doses of antibiotics. I worked for an engineering firm whose specialty was sewage treatment plant facilities. An engineer was out inspecting sewage ponds and some how him and his vehicle ended up in one of the ponds. He was rushed to the hospital was given massive doses intravenously antibiotics. He died from a massive infection.
Everyone’s intestinal flora is different from and incompatible with everyone else’s.
This person will be massively sick in very short order just from that.
And as Goldenfoxx says, there is more and worse lurking in the foetor.
@GF: A good friend from childhood was a diabetic and an engineer who worked in sewage treatment. He cut himself mildly on a railing at a plant. 1 day later he was admitted to the hospital and died the next morning.
About 30 years ago while I was working for a courier company, I was T boned at a four way stop by a little Mazda truck out by Spokane International Airport by a lady who blasted thru the intersection and clobbered my work van just in front of the driver’s door. Fortunately, she didn’t hit me square on but I was pretty shaken up and continued on working the rest of the day which was a mistake after calling dispatch and letting them know what happened, that I paid for a couple of days later when I was so stiff and sore that I could hardly move and ended up on L&I laying on the couch for a week or so to recover. I did get a nice insurance settlement out of it, but I should’ve just called it a day and let someone else finish my route that day. I won’t do that ever again, it’s not worth it. I was also an employee of the month, go figure. I also quit working for that company a couple of years later and went to work for a better employer who treated me better and paid me more.
I’m offended by these comments.
What “availability of work”? Amazon getting ready to fire 18,000 employees if they haven’t done so already. Amazon buyers should expect miserable deliveries and garbage products to beat the usual.