It’s crazy that they literally are taking all the precautions to prevent unionization, so much so that it’s overbearing and causing people to want to unionize because the work space is so dystopian.
I found a really terrifying organization that works with companies to actually put a stop to unions. It was eye-opening to read their website. It's called Projects inc. They are literally telling companies that unions are a threat to businesses. They have said things like "Union organizing campaigns are high-tension events, tempting employers to say things they'll regret later." They also say "You have a legal right to keep your business operating. The union doesn't have a legal right to disrupt operations. If a non-employee is on your premises to solicit for unions, you can politely escort them off the property. You don't have to talk to or try to reason with any union representative." They also make union leaders out to be irrational people who rant and rave to provoke employers, who think they are the boss and may not respect the rules of a business, and that unions promote getting right in the employers face when advocating for rights. As a union leader, this is false propaganda. Union leaders recognize the laws, their rights, and their employers' rights before they go on strike. Many of these companies think that because it's their business, and people signed up to work, the employee should be able to take whatever comes with that. If they keep treating people this way, they won't have workers.
The real problem is that the system allows that to be more profitable for them than to provide better working environments. There should be steeper penalties for them that would make their method too costly to continue.
I worked at an Amazon DC. I worked 12 hour overnight shifts. If you went to the bathroom for more than five minutes or more than once outside of the 15-30 minute breaks, they start watching you. I was asked why i had “Time Off Task” on my machine for 10 minutes. That was the night i walked out.
I was a driver and a couple months ago the owner of my LLC said he hadn't seen a truck so full since the holiday season 2 years ago. After my 3rd straight day of getting the same impossible sized routes I walked out. Idk about other deliveries in the US but Amazon is COOKED and UPS isn't far behind. Automation is great for the customer but it's not sustainable for the people that have to deal with online shopping addictions everyday.
I was starting to get that at the one I worked at too. I would go sometimes near the end of my lunch break and I remember them saying one time that they modified my clocked in hours because they noticed I walked in later sometimes after a lunch break from the bathroom.
I work for USPS and Amazon is wrecking us as well. Everything amazon cannot deliver gets thrown onto us. The post office litterally subsidizes amazon with our labor and infrastructure and somehow we lose funding and amazon gets to makes billions and billions. On top of this, our fucking union can't get a contract passed arbitration. Expect a letter carrier strike in the next few years. Yes I know it's illegal for the post office to strike but we've done it before anyway lol.
It was dumb Like 3 years of my work and a good employee who all my peers liked was worthless in the end to Amazon. All my time and effort wasn't worth more than literally trash so that is great.
I’m currently working as an Amazon driver and I will tell you right now. The piss bottle conspiracy is real in America as well. One of our coworkers got fired and left piss bottles in little nooks and crannies inside one of our vans and it reeked like piss. Some days our routes are so heavy we have no time to take a break
Amazon does truly have a dystopian level of control. I was helping with cannvassing at the bessemer location and they literally got the city to change traffic light duration just to make it harder for us to talk to workers stopped at the red light. This amount of power should not be legal.
It’s a thing at the other package handling services as well. Although UPS management and the Teamsters actively tell the drivers to not do that (management only cares because of the union safety committees.) It’s a side effect of being swamped with work daily.
No one should work at amazon. Easier said than done, I know, but I'm willing give up Amazon and let it shut down its delivery service if it means people like you don't have to piss in bottles.
The moment there were complaints about body aches I looked for a lack of floor mats. Nothing softening the floor. Working hours at a time on a concrete floor. THAT is a fast track to destroying people physically. And no ability to rest without reprimand, this is genuinely torture.
The mats at my az facility were so thick it felt like walking in a bounce house for twelve hours and messed up my knees, hips, and lower back. There's no winning there.
You should know this has always been a UK issue, tho. Even now, tons of raw sewage is just released into the Themes. I think the UK just never joined the rest of the civilized world.
love the idea that amazon owns patents for basically house arrest wristbands (as opposed to ankle monitors). just waiting for the day that amazon openly owns and operates part, and eventually all, probably, of the american prison system. doing my time at SCI Amazon.
I worked in a commercial greenhouse where we stood on concrete and walked over forty thousand steps from 7am to 7pm or later. Even in winter it was over 30c and in the summer the temp inside was in the 40s. We would ship to Costco, Home Depot, Walmart. Spraying chemicals in plus 40 heat and working 7 months without a day off just to watch plants die on the shelves at stores two days after shipping made me realize I'm perfectly qualified to be an Amazon slave.
I was an OTR trucker for various companies, and I was an Amazon AFP semi driver. The things I have seen at Amazon facilities... I could never work there. I feel so terrible for those people. The amount of security just to use the bathroom. They also don't like it when you listen to politics in the truck. I noticed I'd get safety violations whenever I listened to The Deprogram. Got to the point where I just quit. I never had an issue with supposedly more strict driving rules at other companies, and I have a clean driving and safety record.
Really? That’s crazy, but believable. Do they go into detail about what the safety violations were and did you even get them when listening to anything else? Just curious. So dystopian.
@@blyndeaf8503 Stupid stuff. Supposedly speeding, lane departures, following distance, and the big one was having both ears covered with a headset (my headset only had one ear piece lol). I worked for a company that uses the exact same system, and never got violated for anything, and that was OTR vs Amazon local. I couldn't figure out how I was getting violations when I was driving so careful, and the safety manager even said that he didn't understand what was happening, because he wasn't getting any footage from the violations (it's supposed to automatically send them to him so he can dispute them). I had a hunch not to listen to The Deprogram, Kyle Kullinski, or Hasan VODs that whole week and boom. Problem goes away. My driving never changed. I was going to the same places every night. So that was the only thing I could think of. As soon as I started listening to The Deprogram again, like, the same night, my safety score in the app went straight into the yellow. Unless there's some correlation between me driving like crap and listening to politics, I'm pretty sure it was targeted.
i wonder how that works with reuploads or reactions like this. as long as vice doesn’t copyright this video, youtube shouldn’t be able to flag it right? /gen obviously not great from vices end, but good from the information sharing perspective?
The video was copyright claimed immediately. According to RUclips it's blocked in "5.1% of viewers territories" which they said was just the UK but I guess it's also Canada? It's unfortunate, but that's how it goes sometimes. I don't really mind that they demonetize the videos, but it's annoying when they block whole countries from viewing :/
Damn this one hits real close to home! My dad was an Amazon driver for almost five years now and he would always come home tired and in pain. Despite him sacrificing his health for that shitty ass place for so long he was quickly fired after getting a slight scratch on one of the vans. Amazon holds their workers to inhumane standards and treats them as disposable! My heart hurts for each and everyone of these workers that continue to work under these conditions :(
i didnt quite work at amazon, but I worked in a FedEx distribution center loading trucks. I lasted like a week and a half before I just couldnt manage. they wanted like 500 packaged loaded perfectly placed/ hour. after an hour or so I was just gassed out and drenched in sweat and obviously you can't stop. I worked part time because Im a disabled vet with back issues and it was meant to be a filler job. but as I found out...... part timers get no break at all. you're just running and lifting for 4 hours straight.
I worked full time in Minnesota even then no breaks our laws require nothing for a break if you’re working less than 8hrs so they did everything they could to get done at 7hrs 59min so they wouldn’t have to give us a break it was absurd very hard work
Also advertising full time work but that means 30 hrs to them?? They don’t schedule the full 30hrs even one of my first days the boss announced if you aren’t hitting your 30 hrs they’ll bump you to part time just pick up an extra shift he said meaning work 6days a week! because they schedule only like 26hrs cause most of the time you stay way after you were scheduled for and they will not pay overtime insane
I worked at a “last leg” distribution facility for roughly a year. It was a horrible experience. Hours upon hours of hunching over to scan rows of containers like a harried Quasimodo while the work piles up around you and then a mad scramble to use your aching back to lift the now full containers into staging. It was designed to destroy you. Awful beyond any other experience in manual labor or stressful duties.
I worked as a driver recently. You don’t have time to take your 15 minute breaks and your 30 minute lunch includes your commute to go get food. So if you don’t bring your own food you get maybe a 5 or 10 minute lunch. If you take your 15s or just move too slowly they cut your hours and give them to someone who will break their back for the job. It’s really cut throat
I just fired from an Amazon FC. Worked 12 hour nights and this building only shipped the big items (refrigerators, bedframes, carpets, mattresses, etc.) and they said I had too much time off task and wasn't scanning enough. Apparently it's a code of conduct violation to be a human being and not want to move heavy boxes for 12 hours out of your night. With only 1 hour and 15 minutes of permitted break time to yourself.
it’s how i was fired after 2 days because i refused to not use the bathroom or get food to eat/shit to drink lmao. AND IT WAS WINTER. it was literally hovering over freezing as soon as the sun went down. and they were telling us to bring hot chocolate and coffee. you know what my ass did? went and waited in line and bought one. so in turn i took longer than they wanted. they want you to finish in 6-8 hours and it took me like 9-10 because i would literally follow the rules they set forth during training and was eventually told that im supposed to break those rules to successfully deliver promptly. i projected savings and everything. that jobs pay would have changed my life. lmfao fired after 2 days tho. hope amazon burns to the ground
@@forwunday8351I know I can get fake pee at a vape shop near me. So I’d try those places. Used it for my drug test and passed. They sent the pee to a lab and everything I was sure it wouldn’t work but it did.
having worked in a ups facility for two weeks a while back, they were better than the normal amazon horror stories, but not much, still absolutely soul crushing
I just assume anywhere you go, you're on camera. Can't do anything without it being caught in 4k lol. It's been big brother out here in the skreets. And they secretly listening in the walls (via your phone.)
If you're lucky. I got regular UTIs when working for Boost Mobile doing their prepaid re-up service working 20 hours of mandatory overtime every single week bc anything over the 2 minimum 10 min breaks and 30 min unpaid lunch was counted against your stats. This was back in 2006. One of them led to a kidney infection that nearly killed me. 😢
in the 90s there were piss bottles all over the highways because truckers of the era had similarly overloaded schedules and couldnt stop to just piss at a gas station.
Yeah it always pisses me off so much when people with desk jobs complain about work or being bored. Go work in a warehouse for a few weeks you're going to beg to get that "horrible" job back. But instead of trying to automate the shit thats ruining peoples health the focus of AI and the like is on creative work thats based on crap stolen from actual humans. But hey at least the CEO can go to space.
@@allinefeyn9224 Oh yeah I work a desk job now, but ware house is a different beast. I will say that I feel more emotionally and mentally beat than physically. If you can deal with that effectively then its way better than a warehouse or most run of the mill labor jobs.
@@alakabambram8436 Im not saying the desk/office jobs are no tiring but I've always found those much easier to recover from for the next day. Compared to physically demanding jobs where you have to go for your next shift while your body still hurts from the previous day. At least till you get used to it. But those were also 12h shits with like one 20 min break compared to an 8 h with 30 min lunch break.
Worked at mcdonald for a bit and between how hot it was, being yelled at and insulted constantly, the pain, the stress, almost slipping numerous times right next to the boiling oil, I thought I got the worst job ever, litterally started using drugs again after being clean for months and quit after less than a month. They were not surprised at all turnover rate is apparently insanely high too. It was in a really small french town too, I prolly got it easier than most. my heart goes out to all the amazon workers that seems like litteral hell I'm realizing how much of a pussy I am lmao
I think I got really lucky I worked at a mcdonalds like 10 years ago in a Walmart and there wa shigh foot traffic but honestly my work environment was pretty great. I had chill managers who didnt take themselves too seriously and outside of the physical aspect i was fine. the diff with the amazon call out is that it is ubiquitous how awful they are as an employer.
No, that's a terrible way to look at it. You are NOT a pussy, you are a human fucking being. And there is nothing wrong with being a human fucking being instead of a machine. We were not meant to live this way, we were not meant to be treated this way and we do not deserve this.
Hasan Like he said. poses no real threat to amazon. None of the leftist youtubers and streamers do. If amazon and jeff bezos are god kings unrivaled by anything, the government is the heavens they reside in and Hasan along with many like him are simple Humans looking up at the storm.
I would actually love to work at a well-organized warehouse, so it sucks that Amazon are SUCH bad employers. I'd love to scan and move boxes around all day.
My mom got a free lawn mower for free this way, though not on purpose. She was like "this works but it has an ugly scratch, I paid a lot of money for it I want something nice, so imma return it." They offered her either a refund or a new product shipped but also said she should please dispose of the old one herself instead of returning so she went with the refund and just kept it.
i always wondered why we dont have amazon in our country, but the way they operate is literally illegal in multiple ways where i live, for example the security cameras cant be used to stalk your workers and you cant fire someone based on what you see on security footage unless it was a crime
Also, in most of their American van fleet there are 4 cameras, one facing the driver and two on each windows plus a dash cam. They watch you constantly, and knock you for safety if you pick up your phone
what is even more scary then that is to even compete with amazon every competitor now has to become worse then them. I worked at a warehouse and they were constantly checking performance speed and i was in the top quarter from the very beginning. it was insane and the bosses would just kick people and replace them the next day
I am currently an emt in florida. I worked at Amazon through high school and emt school. I genuinely wouldn't Wish working at Amazon on my worst enemy. I didn't realize how bad it was when I worked there because it was like an abusive relationship where you don't realize how horrible it is.Until you get out
One of the people I know most intimately and have known for the longest throughout my life certainly does NOT under ANY circumstances abuse the Amazon return process with a nearly 100% success rate to acquire free shit they need when they cant afford it. And, when the return is declined or disputed, they absolutely do not spend about half a day arguing with customer service about how they DEFINITELY SENT THE ITEM and USPS must've just lost it, before they give them the refund anyway. I DO NOT recommend that anyone do this, either, ESPECIALLY if theyre hungry and need groceries in an area where Amazon Fresh delivers and takes EBT. 😊
I worked at an Amazon DC in a large UK city. Myself and FIVE others were completely responsible for every same day delivery package for this city and the surrounding smaller cities. Thousands of packages (avg around 12k iirc) we had to scan and sort into delivery sacks in unrealistic times. You were timed and criticised if you were anything but impossibly fast. You'd end up with piles of boxes taller than you as you have to run and pack them into the delivery sacks. 6 people had to get 10k+ packages off the delivery lorries, scanned and labelled and sorted into delivery bags then give them to the flex drivers in a total of 2 and a half hours. I quit after 2 months because it was physically exhausting. The shifts were long (what I explained before was the beginning of the shift, the rest was to prepare the nightshift where they'd sort tens of thousands of non-same day packages), so you'd only work 4 days of the week but it was so tiring that by the time you'd return to work your body hadn't even repaired itself. I literally felt my body deteriorate during that job, it was awful lol
I worked at the GEG-1 Amazon FC Automated Warehouse in Spokane, WA. The conditions there are abysmal, they give so little concern towards safety, and conveniently withhold cameras from the areas where injuries are most likely to occur. I was AFM, an Amnesty floor monitor. My SRBRS vest failed trying to service a drive that'd gotten stuck on a book in the pod farm, when my vest started screaming and flashing red, and the drives started moving around me again. I quickly stood up and turned, tearing my ATL in the process, and ran off the pod floor as fast as I could. When i tried to get workers comp, Amazon denied any liability because there was NO EVIDENCE THATD HAPPENED IN THEIR WAREHOUSE. I ended up quitting as FC Inbound Problem-Solve (FC IB-PS) after finding 3 full totes absolutely stuffed to the brim with nazi seig heil hitler merch and fan apparel
9:50 That's insane. I work at an Amazon Warehouse because they have a college program that I like, and entering the building is so much easier, way less security (only at the entrance) and they don't even check for your phones, they just won't let you have it out while working. They do have TOT and rates, though, which sucks.
I had to work at Amazon when I was 19, because of the distance they used to transport workers to the fascility, it cost half a days salary to use the bus that Amazon owned; they didn't know I could understand but I remember on the bus a group of Polish people behind me saying 'oh look Jeff's started hiring kids now' XD. I remember seeing a pregnant woman crying on her knees that she couldn't keep going and people just walking past her to make sure they don't fall behind. You also got told to carry stuff properly not because you could hurt yourself but because Amazon could get fined if you work improperly. The only positive was if your device told you to collect items from the food section nobody would snitch and you could take snacks, my packs of Skittles were pretty much the only sensory stimulation I would get during the day as the factory was devoid of sunlight.
At the amazon warehouse I worked at, our breaks were "scan to scan" which means your break starts after you've scanned that last item. After that, you're still operating machinery, you have to drive to the drop off area and drop off the items, possibly refill your truck, park, then walk around 5 minutes to the break room. Your break ends once you scan an item again, which requires the same 5 minute walk, starting up your truck and putting on your harness, driving to the bin that the item is in, and raising yourself to whatever level it is at.
thank god I didn't work at Amazon, but I did work in similar environment in a QA company as a video games tester, we had to clock in exactly the second the shift starts and stay glued to the screen for 8 and sometimes 12 hours straight, if we take our eyes off the screen for one moment the manager will give you a dirty look, after only 2 months, my eyes were destroyed forever and had to make prescription glasses for the first time with my own money.. oh and I was paid way below minimum wage
I'm just thankful this dude is on the right side, this man's brain with the wrong intent could be used to commit the most heinous crimes. He made a LAWYER LAUGH. ABOUT LAW. WHAT? God he's so good. Also yea Amazon is everything wrong with capitalism, as so many more people are increasingly aware every day.
I feel like the 3 minute per stop metric is ridiculous. Even 5 min/per would significantly lighten the load for systems that plan routes based on stops/travel time/breaks/etc. Depending on where you are there can be gas stations or business with no public restrooms available, or you'll be in a rural area that's nothing but fields and houses. If you don't have seniority with a company (and sometimes even WITH seniority in the case of Amazon/Fedex) you have no guarantee that you'll have any familiarity with the area you're delivering in, which makes a huge difference for time/safety/access to services etc. There are so many sacrifices that get made so that everyone anywhere can get their packages/mail as quickly as possible and a lot of those sacrifices have been at the detriment of the safety and comfort of the people actually going out and making those deliveries. It's definitely not work that a lot of people would enjoy or be suited for, but places like Amazon and Fedex lose a lot of good carriers because they are unwilling to take care of their people. Similarly, UPS and USPS lose people because management and sups still want to push their numbers higher and test the unions in their offices. They can't just lay off drivers, but they can harrass them and force an endless chain of grievances, taking out whoever isn't knowledgeable about their rights in the process. Fucking shameful.
As an Amazon driver in the states, absolutely everyone who can and is comfortable pissing in bottles will do it, to take a bathroom break it is considered one of your 15 minute smoke breaks that you have to start after a delivery so you’ll be at someone’s house and route to a bathroom, it just takes too much time out of your day because as drivers all we need to do is finish our route and we go home, so every driver goes as fast as possible. As a driver it’s your choice to pee in a bottle and tbh it’s not that bad and people do it bc it can mean going home faster, the common issue is people leaving those nasty pee bottles in the truck for someone else later that same day to find
My husband worked for Amazon subcontractor as a driver. He loved his job, it paid better starting than most, and as a motivated employee he got a raise within months. He got a bad dog bite (which is really common unfortunately) and they covered his medical and gave him as much time off as he needed (don't quote me... I believe they paid him too). This was in NJ. He only left because we moved out of state and he would have gone right back to working for them had they had a hub near us. (Our Amazon orders come through USPS/UPS here).
and amazon is like one of the "better" alternatives when it comes to working environments, you should see the conditions other smaller companies have. multiple warehouse/entry level manufacturing gigs that i've been at work you to the bone, hotter and faster paced environment, some of them don't even give you proper ppe and they watch your every step just as much and for abysmal pay. not saying amazon is good tho, just pointing out how this is just the surface of how bad things are. a lot of people don't get to see some of the real bottom of the barrel working conditions that so many have to work under. don't even get me started on chemical plants like nufarm
I agree. But at the same time publicly going after a giant like Amazon and bringing them to heel would be hopefully be a great boon for the working class and inspire others to do the same at other companies that operate with even worse working conditions
that knife part reminds me, there's multiple types of knives that are illegal in France (butterfly knives, switchblades, shit like that). You're not supposed to be able to own em. Guess who sells those and doesn't require age verification for that either? That's right, amazon. Pretty sure it was my real birthday on the account too, so they knew I was underage and still let me buy that, along with other stuff kids aren't supposed to be able to buy like vapes and shit but again I'm in France kids start smoking at twelve no one will ever ask your ID to buy cigarettes or alcohol so whatever I guess
Whatever exactly. Who gives a fuck lol. A butterfly knife? Do yall not have kitchens full of knives or pocket knifes for hiking and shit? That's a dumb ass law, who cares lol
"Are kids buying knives in the US". I remember on my 9th birthday my parents bought me a knife, gave me some basic knife safety (don't cut towards yourself), and said go have fun. I widdled a spear, and didn't use the knife again until I had to open toy packages.
9:00 to speak to what boy boy was saying about agency employment. I worked for nestle in York (there home city.) they have a fancy office for those employed by nestle. But those of us who worked on the line worked for the agency. No benefits no holiday no paternity leave. It’s essentially a tax right off. The torries wanted to incentivize job creation with tax breaks. The catch is the employment has to be quality. By subletting the process they abandon any responsibility, while reaping the tax benefit. Vile.
I was a driver in the US and regularly peed in bottles. The trash cans at the parking lot were always full of bottles of pee and snack wrappers because we also often didn’t have enough time to eat an actual meal either. Sure they gave us 30 min for lunch (mandatory), but the downside to taking that instead of continuing driving while on break is that you’ll often end up working 11-12 hours instead of the scheduled 10. I have a daughter, I was not willing to miss time with her, so I would just keep delivering while on break.
I know, I was looking to see if anyone thought that was a funny comment. AWS is literally 14 times bigger than all its competitors combined in the cloud space and most websites are ran on it. They already monopolised that market years and years ago.
I know no one likes an armchair quarterback, but WHY and HOW didn't he at least question the insanity of the manager bringing him into a closed room to *tell him he looks like some guy?* If he was *ANYONE* else it would be the most insane interaction that person ever had. If it was just some British looking person and the manager pulled him into the office to tell him he looks like a guy called Ookla Booba, they'd think it was some kind of joke. Can you imagine if a male manager brought a female employee into a closed office to tell her, "I think you kind of look like Supercar Blondie :)"?
Its crazy i work for kroger and they just released a new update for the pick up department that tracks idle time from the time you grab an item to the next
never work for warehouses that do delivery of smaller packages, always find those that do pallets. you do the same work essentially except that with pallets, they give you trucks to sit on and do the work for you. you get paid the same sure but at least you're just driving around rather than using your own body.
I worked at an Amazon facility in Kentucky back in 2016. I only worked there for 6 months, they had to literally wheel me out in a wheelchair on my last day because I had developed plantar fasciitis so badly in both of my feet I couldn’t walk without bursting into tears. Before that, they had me continue working and stop every 2 hours to go get my feet iced at the nurses office.
It’s crazy that they literally are taking all the precautions to prevent unionization, so much so that it’s overbearing and causing people to want to unionize because the work space is so dystopian.
Yup. Authority breeds rebellion. More authority breeds more rebellion. Always.
I found a really terrifying organization that works with companies to actually put a stop to unions. It was eye-opening to read their website. It's called Projects inc. They are literally telling companies that unions are a threat to businesses. They have said things like "Union organizing campaigns are high-tension events, tempting employers to say things they'll regret later." They also say "You have a legal right to keep your business operating. The union doesn't have a legal right to disrupt operations. If a non-employee is on your premises to solicit for unions, you can politely escort them off the property. You don't have to talk to or try to reason with any union representative." They also make union leaders out to be irrational people who rant and rave to provoke employers, who think they are the boss and may not respect the rules of a business, and that unions promote getting right in the employers face when advocating for rights. As a union leader, this is false propaganda. Union leaders recognize the laws, their rights, and their employers' rights before they go on strike. Many of these companies think that because it's their business, and people signed up to work, the employee should be able to take whatever comes with that. If they keep treating people this way, they won't have workers.
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The real problem is that the system allows that to be more profitable for them than to provide better working environments. There should be steeper penalties for them that would make their method too costly to continue.
I worked at an Amazon DC. I worked 12 hour overnight shifts. If you went to the bathroom for more than five minutes or more than once outside of the 15-30 minute breaks, they start watching you. I was asked why i had “Time Off Task” on my machine for 10 minutes. That was the night i walked out.
I was a driver and a couple months ago the owner of my LLC said he hadn't seen a truck so full since the holiday season 2 years ago. After my 3rd straight day of getting the same impossible sized routes I walked out.
Idk about other deliveries in the US but Amazon is COOKED and UPS isn't far behind.
Automation is great for the customer but it's not sustainable for the people that have to deal with online shopping addictions everyday.
Thanks late stage capitalism
I was starting to get that at the one I worked at too. I would go sometimes near the end of my lunch break and I remember them saying one time that they modified my clocked in hours because they noticed I walked in later sometimes after a lunch break from the bathroom.
I work for USPS and Amazon is wrecking us as well. Everything amazon cannot deliver gets thrown onto us. The post office litterally subsidizes amazon with our labor and infrastructure and somehow we lose funding and amazon gets to makes billions and billions. On top of this, our fucking union can't get a contract passed arbitration. Expect a letter carrier strike in the next few years. Yes I know it's illegal for the post office to strike but we've done it before anyway lol.
Fuck that shit
I worked at Amazon for 3 years and they fired me for eating some reese's peanut cups from a destroyed package that was going to be thrown away.
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Understandable… I am talking about Amazon
@@BlammoGerfiring someone for eating trash?
It was dumb
Like 3 years of my work and a good employee who all my peers liked was worthless in the end to Amazon. All my time and effort wasn't worth more than literally trash so that is great.
@@Morbing_Time When you work for a company they set rules. You agree to them when you sign your employment contract.
Boy Boy is punching the air right now watching this and regretting his vacation
"That should've been me 😢"
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I’m currently working as an Amazon driver and I will tell you right now. The piss bottle conspiracy is real in America as well. One of our coworkers got fired and left piss bottles in little nooks and crannies inside one of our vans and it reeked like piss.
Some days our routes are so heavy we have no time to take a break
Amazon does truly have a dystopian level of control. I was helping with cannvassing at the bessemer location and they literally got the city to change traffic light duration just to make it harder for us to talk to workers stopped at the red light. This amount of power should not be legal.
it's not a conspiracy, it's a well known thing by everyone everywhere lol.
It’s a thing at the other package handling services as well. Although UPS management and the Teamsters actively tell the drivers to not do that (management only cares because of the union safety committees.) It’s a side effect of being swamped with work daily.
Come work for USPS please
No one should work at amazon. Easier said than done, I know, but I'm willing give up Amazon and let it shut down its delivery service if it means people like you don't have to piss in bottles.
The moment there were complaints about body aches I looked for a lack of floor mats. Nothing softening the floor. Working hours at a time on a concrete floor. THAT is a fast track to destroying people physically. And no ability to rest without reprimand, this is genuinely torture.
The mats at my az facility were so thick it felt like walking in a bounce house for twelve hours and messed up my knees, hips, and lower back. There's no winning there.
It's like that at a lot of warehouses not just Amazon
Throwing human waste out on the street... we really are back in the feudal era baby!
Throw excrement in the streets but the line goes up.
You should know this has always been a UK issue, tho. Even now, tons of raw sewage is just released into the Themes. I think the UK just never joined the rest of the civilized world.
love the idea that amazon owns patents for basically house arrest wristbands (as opposed to ankle monitors). just waiting for the day that amazon openly owns and operates part, and eventually all, probably, of the american prison system. doing my time at SCI Amazon.
worryfree?
Amazon Warehouse is already like a high-security prison!
I worked in a commercial greenhouse where we stood on concrete and walked over forty thousand steps from 7am to 7pm or later. Even in winter it was over 30c and in the summer the temp inside was in the 40s. We would ship to Costco, Home Depot, Walmart.
Spraying chemicals in plus 40 heat and working 7 months without a day off just to watch plants die on the shelves at stores two days after shipping made me realize I'm perfectly qualified to be an Amazon slave.
I worked at Amazon FC in Orlando. My record for 12 hours was 63,400 steps.
Holy shit that sounds miserable
The original video is blocked in Romania, so thank you Hasan Reactions!
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In Germany as well
India as well
@@aychamp8306 oh
So suchvideos get blocked often in endia ?
Dam.. 😅
Sweden too :/
We trying to unionize at a Michigan fc
Awesome
✊ god speed brother
That’s how it should be
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Good luck comrade
Amazon is hell. I had Braxton hicks contractions when I was 8 months pregnant and they yelled at me for my rate being low.
Rightly so .there is no shirking for our Neo Liberal God
you must be tough as hell to be able to work at Amazon during your pregnancy!!! damn.
What??!!
As somebody who knows nothing about pregnancy I hear "Braxton Hicks" and go: "Sounds like a country singer..."
I was an OTR trucker for various companies, and I was an Amazon AFP semi driver. The things I have seen at Amazon facilities... I could never work there. I feel so terrible for those people. The amount of security just to use the bathroom. They also don't like it when you listen to politics in the truck. I noticed I'd get safety violations whenever I listened to The Deprogram. Got to the point where I just quit. I never had an issue with supposedly more strict driving rules at other companies, and I have a clean driving and safety record.
Really? That’s crazy, but believable. Do they go into detail about what the safety violations were and did you even get them when listening to anything else? Just curious. So dystopian.
@@blyndeaf8503 Stupid stuff. Supposedly speeding, lane departures, following distance, and the big one was having both ears covered with a headset (my headset only had one ear piece lol). I worked for a company that uses the exact same system, and never got violated for anything, and that was OTR vs Amazon local. I couldn't figure out how I was getting violations when I was driving so careful, and the safety manager even said that he didn't understand what was happening, because he wasn't getting any footage from the violations (it's supposed to automatically send them to him so he can dispute them). I had a hunch not to listen to The Deprogram, Kyle Kullinski, or Hasan VODs that whole week and boom. Problem goes away. My driving never changed. I was going to the same places every night. So that was the only thing I could think of. As soon as I started listening to The Deprogram again, like, the same night, my safety score in the app went straight into the yellow. Unless there's some correlation between me driving like crap and listening to politics, I'm pretty sure it was targeted.
Kinda sucks that vice only got the rights to post this in the US only
It’s working in Canada now.
@@miniciominiciominiciojust tried from Canada, it’s not
i wonder how that works with reuploads or reactions like this. as long as vice doesn’t copyright this video, youtube shouldn’t be able to flag it right? /gen
obviously not great from vices end, but good from the information sharing perspective?
The video was copyright claimed immediately. According to RUclips it's blocked in "5.1% of viewers territories" which they said was just the UK but I guess it's also Canada? It's unfortunate, but that's how it goes sometimes. I don't really mind that they demonetize the videos, but it's annoying when they block whole countries from viewing :/
Blocked in Denmark, perhaps the whole of EU?
This video was nuts. They're so wild to be running out of people to hire i didn't think that was possible
Just in time for Prime Day!
I'm sad this video is only available in NA, appreciate the highlight so more people can experience it
Not available in Canada.
@slowedndreverb Channel 4 is not available in Canada I think.
Damn this one hits real close to home! My dad was an Amazon driver for almost five years now and he would always come home tired and in pain. Despite him sacrificing his health for that shitty ass place for so long he was quickly fired after getting a slight scratch on one of the vans. Amazon holds their workers to inhumane standards and treats them as disposable! My heart hurts for each and everyone of these workers that continue to work under these conditions :(
i didnt quite work at amazon, but I worked in a FedEx distribution center loading trucks. I lasted like a week and a half before I just couldnt manage. they wanted like 500 packaged loaded perfectly placed/ hour. after an hour or so I was just gassed out and drenched in sweat and obviously you can't stop. I worked part time because Im a disabled vet with back issues and it was meant to be a filler job. but as I found out...... part timers get no break at all. you're just running and lifting for 4 hours straight.
Same thing when I worked for FedEx in Georgia, only I went at for a year and it was so bad that all my managing officers quit at once.
I worked full time in Minnesota even then no breaks our laws require nothing for a break if you’re working less than 8hrs so they did everything they could to get done at 7hrs 59min so they wouldn’t have to give us a break it was absurd very hard work
Also advertising full time work but that means 30 hrs to them?? They don’t schedule the full 30hrs even one of my first days the boss announced if you aren’t hitting your 30 hrs they’ll bump you to part time just pick up an extra shift he said meaning work 6days a week! because they schedule only like 26hrs cause most of the time you stay way after you were scheduled for and they will not pay overtime insane
I worked at a “last leg” distribution facility for roughly a year. It was a horrible experience. Hours upon hours of hunching over to scan rows of containers like a harried Quasimodo while the work piles up around you and then a mad scramble to use your aching back to lift the now full containers into staging. It was designed to destroy you. Awful beyond any other experience in manual labor or stressful duties.
Best video I've seen in years on yt, such high quality and amazing journalism. This guy is a legend
I worked as a driver recently. You don’t have time to take your 15 minute breaks and your 30 minute lunch includes your commute to go get food. So if you don’t bring your own food you get maybe a 5 or 10 minute lunch. If you take your 15s or just move too slowly they cut your hours and give them to someone who will break their back for the job. It’s really cut throat
I just fired from an Amazon FC. Worked 12 hour nights and this building only shipped the big items (refrigerators, bedframes, carpets, mattresses, etc.) and they said I had too much time off task and wasn't scanning enough. Apparently it's a code of conduct violation to be a human being and not want to move heavy boxes for 12 hours out of your night. With only 1 hour and 15 minutes of permitted break time to yourself.
“How many knives did you guys order?”
Child: *laughs*
it’s how i was fired after 2 days because i refused to not use the bathroom or get food to eat/shit to drink lmao. AND IT WAS WINTER. it was literally hovering over freezing as soon as the sun went down. and they were telling us to bring hot chocolate and coffee. you know what my ass did? went and waited in line and bought one. so in turn i took longer than they wanted. they want you to finish in 6-8 hours and it took me like 9-10 because i would literally follow the rules they set forth during training and was eventually told that im supposed to break those rules to successfully deliver promptly. i projected savings and everything. that jobs pay would have changed my life. lmfao fired after 2 days tho. hope amazon burns to the ground
That's the right attitude! They literally treat you like an animal, it's degrading. Amazon is a poison on this Earth.
It is NOT illegal to sell piss. I bought dehydrated piss to pass the drug test for my current job.
Wait how do you dehydrate piss? Also how do you rehydrate it to pass the drug test?
@@forwunday8351I know I can get fake pee at a vape shop near me. So I’d try those places. Used it for my drug test and passed. They sent the pee to a lab and everything I was sure it wouldn’t work but it did.
piss powder? what the hell are you on about?
Do you snort it?
Don't just drop that and leave us hanging here comrade
Okay but your name also being Alex is fucking crazy.
the Hasan Abi Alex industrial complex.
*industrial complAlex
having worked in a ups facility for two weeks a while back, they were better than the normal amazon horror stories, but not much, still absolutely soul crushing
Try a FedEx facility.
UPS sucks until you get promoted to full time driver, but drivers get treated great
Its crazy, but if you see call centers some are just as monitored as amazon... but they get a toilet break.
I just assume anywhere you go, you're on camera. Can't do anything without it being caught in 4k lol. It's been big brother out here in the skreets. And they secretly listening in the walls (via your phone.)
If you're lucky. I got regular UTIs when working for Boost Mobile doing their prepaid re-up service working 20 hours of mandatory overtime every single week bc anything over the 2 minimum 10 min breaks and 30 min unpaid lunch was counted against your stats. This was back in 2006. One of them led to a kidney infection that nearly killed me. 😢
in the 90s there were piss bottles all over the highways because truckers of the era had similarly overloaded schedules and couldnt stop to just piss at a gas station.
11:45 that's verbatim the exact same advice a prisoner would give to their new cellmate on their first day in prison. Insane
omg this is one of the best videos ive ever watched in a LOOOONG time colin the lawyer is my fav
I worked at ups loading the trucks and we had to work in 100 degree trucks and load 400 packages per hour for 14.50 and hour, it was absolute torture
Yes! Just gotta wait for the sound to process :)
Pretty much none of this is exclusive to amazon, its basically identical to pretty much every warehouse job in the uk 😭
Yeah it always pisses me off so much when people with desk jobs complain about work or being bored. Go work in a warehouse for a few weeks you're going to beg to get that "horrible" job back. But instead of trying to automate the shit thats ruining peoples health the focus of AI and the like is on creative work thats based on crap stolen from actual humans. But hey at least the CEO can go to space.
@@allinefeyn9224 Oh yeah I work a desk job now, but ware house is a different beast. I will say that I feel more emotionally and mentally beat than physically. If you can deal with that effectively then its way better than a warehouse or most run of the mill labor jobs.
@@alakabambram8436 Im not saying the desk/office jobs are no tiring but I've always found those much easier to recover from for the next day. Compared to physically demanding jobs where you have to go for your next shift while your body still hurts from the previous day. At least till you get used to it. But those were also 12h shits with like one 20 min break compared to an 8 h with 30 min lunch break.
Worked at mcdonald for a bit and between how hot it was, being yelled at and insulted constantly, the pain, the stress, almost slipping numerous times right next to the boiling oil, I thought I got the worst job ever, litterally started using drugs again after being clean for months and quit after less than a month. They were not surprised at all turnover rate is apparently insanely high too. It was in a really small french town too, I prolly got it easier than most. my heart goes out to all the amazon workers that seems like litteral hell I'm realizing how much of a pussy I am lmao
I think I got really lucky I worked at a mcdonalds like 10 years ago in a Walmart and there wa shigh foot traffic but honestly my work environment was pretty great. I had chill managers who didnt take themselves too seriously and outside of the physical aspect i was fine.
the diff with the amazon call out is that it is ubiquitous how awful they are as an employer.
I mean these megacorporations treat people like animals, no one should stand for it
If anyone's a female genitalia it would probably be Jeff Bezos but last time I checked people actually like female genitalia so...
No, that's a terrible way to look at it. You are NOT a pussy, you are a human fucking being. And there is nothing wrong with being a human fucking being instead of a machine. We were not meant to live this way, we were not meant to be treated this way and we do not deserve this.
7:19 Dystopia
19:55 Scary it only took them a day to figure it out
The part at 40:39 actually set off my Alexa and added it to my cart😭😭😭
I'm surprised Amazon doesn't cut him off from Twitch for his critique.
Nah fr!!
Hasan Like he said. poses no real threat to amazon. None of the leftist youtubers and streamers do. If amazon and jeff bezos are god kings unrivaled by anything, the government is the heavens they reside in and Hasan along with many like him are simple Humans looking up at the storm.
I would actually love to work at a well-organized warehouse, so it sucks that Amazon are SUCH bad employers. I'd love to scan and move boxes around all day.
My mom got a free lawn mower for free this way, though not on purpose. She was like "this works but it has an ugly scratch, I paid a lot of money for it I want something nice, so imma return it." They offered her either a refund or a new product shipped but also said she should please dispose of the old one herself instead of returning so she went with the refund and just kept it.
i always wondered why we dont have amazon in our country, but the way they operate is literally illegal in multiple ways where i live, for example the security cameras cant be used to stalk your workers and you cant fire someone based on what you see on security footage unless it was a crime
The mount effort put into this video with no promise a journalist would pick it up….fucking huge shout out to Oobah
This video was so good, Hassan didnt pause it.
Also, in most of their American van fleet there are 4 cameras, one facing the driver and two on each windows plus a dash cam. They watch you constantly, and knock you for safety if you pick up your phone
This was genuinely incredible holy shit lol
what is even more scary then that is to even compete with amazon every competitor now has to become worse then them.
I worked at a warehouse and they were constantly checking performance speed and i was in the top quarter from the very beginning. it was insane and the bosses would just kick people and replace them the next day
i take a temp and humidity meter to work at amazon with me because the safety people cant be trusted
Editor, you did an amazing work I can't even watch the original video in my country this is insane
Amazon is playing dirty, I can’t even watch the original video in my own country.
I am currently an emt in florida. I worked at Amazon through high school and emt school. I genuinely wouldn't Wish working at Amazon on my worst enemy. I didn't realize how bad it was when I worked there because it was like an abusive relationship where you don't realize how horrible it is.Until you get out
One of the people I know most intimately and have known for the longest throughout my life certainly does NOT under ANY circumstances abuse the Amazon return process with a nearly 100% success rate to acquire free shit they need when they cant afford it. And, when the return is declined or disputed, they absolutely do not spend about half a day arguing with customer service about how they DEFINITELY SENT THE ITEM and USPS must've just lost it, before they give them the refund anyway. I DO NOT recommend that anyone do this, either, ESPECIALLY if theyre hungry and need groceries in an area where Amazon Fresh delivers and takes EBT. 😊
I work at FedEx and I feel like it's a dream job comparing it to amazon 💀I mean in reality it's surprisingly alright for not being unionized
53:06 chatter admits to crime using his Amazon linked twitch account lol
The amount of levels in this was insane. Also, I could watch Oobah for hours.
OMG, you're also an Alex! Didn't know you were part of Hasan's collection 😂
Amazon Warehouses are like the factories from the late 19th Century to the early 20th Century.
Yo, this is crazy. The original video is not available in some countries, I cant watch it in Germany. Anyone having the same issues???
The rights to this video are only available in america
It’s free to watch in the UK; it’s on the Channel 4 Documentaries RUclips channel
I worked at an Amazon DC in a large UK city. Myself and FIVE others were completely responsible for every same day delivery package for this city and the surrounding smaller cities. Thousands of packages (avg around 12k iirc) we had to scan and sort into delivery sacks in unrealistic times. You were timed and criticised if you were anything but impossibly fast. You'd end up with piles of boxes taller than you as you have to run and pack them into the delivery sacks. 6 people had to get 10k+ packages off the delivery lorries, scanned and labelled and sorted into delivery bags then give them to the flex drivers in a total of 2 and a half hours.
I quit after 2 months because it was physically exhausting. The shifts were long (what I explained before was the beginning of the shift, the rest was to prepare the nightshift where they'd sort tens of thousands of non-same day packages), so you'd only work 4 days of the week but it was so tiring that by the time you'd return to work your body hadn't even repaired itself. I literally felt my body deteriorate during that job, it was awful lol
I worked at the GEG-1 Amazon FC Automated Warehouse in Spokane, WA. The conditions there are abysmal, they give so little concern towards safety, and conveniently withhold cameras from the areas where injuries are most likely to occur.
I was AFM, an Amnesty floor monitor. My SRBRS vest failed trying to service a drive that'd gotten stuck on a book in the pod farm, when my vest started screaming and flashing red, and the drives started moving around me again. I quickly stood up and turned, tearing my ATL in the process, and ran off the pod floor as fast as I could.
When i tried to get workers comp, Amazon denied any liability because there was NO EVIDENCE THATD HAPPENED IN THEIR WAREHOUSE.
I ended up quitting as FC Inbound Problem-Solve (FC IB-PS) after finding 3 full totes absolutely stuffed to the brim with nazi seig heil hitler merch and fan apparel
If you think returns go back to Amazon, instead of the local landfill, you are wrong.
He literally taxed the rich all by himself he's literally a genius wtf
9:50 That's insane. I work at an Amazon Warehouse because they have a college program that I like, and entering the building is so much easier, way less security (only at the entrance) and they don't even check for your phones, they just won't let you have it out while working. They do have TOT and rates, though, which sucks.
Original video blocked in Spain.Thank you Hasan for uploding this.
This video was absolutely brilliant.
I had to work at Amazon when I was 19, because of the distance they used to transport workers to the fascility, it cost half a days salary to use the bus that Amazon owned; they didn't know I could understand but I remember on the bus a group of Polish people behind me saying 'oh look Jeff's started hiring kids now' XD.
I remember seeing a pregnant woman crying on her knees that she couldn't keep going and people just walking past her to make sure they don't fall behind. You also got told to carry stuff properly not because you could hurt yourself but because Amazon could get fined if you work improperly.
The only positive was if your device told you to collect items from the food section nobody would snitch and you could take snacks, my packs of Skittles were pretty much the only sensory stimulation I would get during the day as the factory was devoid of sunlight.
At the amazon warehouse I worked at, our breaks were "scan to scan" which means your break starts after you've scanned that last item. After that, you're still operating machinery, you have to drive to the drop off area and drop off the items, possibly refill your truck, park, then walk around 5 minutes to the break room. Your break ends once you scan an item again, which requires the same 5 minute walk, starting up your truck and putting on your harness, driving to the bin that the item is in, and raising yourself to whatever level it is at.
Where is the piss bottle counter? 🤔
worked as an amazon delivery driver for like half a year, accidentally over filled a water bottle with piss and got it all over the sliding door 🤷
thank god I didn't work at Amazon, but I did work in similar environment in a QA company as a video games tester, we had to clock in exactly the second the shift starts and stay glued to the screen for 8 and sometimes 12 hours straight, if we take our eyes off the screen for one moment the manager will give you a dirty look, after only 2 months, my eyes were destroyed forever and had to make prescription glasses for the first time with my own money.. oh and I was paid way below minimum wage
Gatorade Is the premium piss bottle. Wide mouth and just looks like gatorade
40:40 that actually added the thing to my own cart hahahaha
Hilarious that I live in the UK, where the video is made, and yet I'm being geo-restricted from watching.
I'm just thankful this dude is on the right side, this man's brain with the wrong intent could be used to commit the most heinous crimes.
He made a LAWYER LAUGH. ABOUT LAW.
WHAT?
God he's so good. Also yea Amazon is everything wrong with capitalism, as so many more people are increasingly aware every day.
I feel like the 3 minute per stop metric is ridiculous. Even 5 min/per would significantly lighten the load for systems that plan routes based on stops/travel time/breaks/etc. Depending on where you are there can be gas stations or business with no public restrooms available, or you'll be in a rural area that's nothing but fields and houses. If you don't have seniority with a company (and sometimes even WITH seniority in the case of Amazon/Fedex) you have no guarantee that you'll have any familiarity with the area you're delivering in, which makes a huge difference for time/safety/access to services etc. There are so many sacrifices that get made so that everyone anywhere can get their packages/mail as quickly as possible and a lot of those sacrifices have been at the detriment of the safety and comfort of the people actually going out and making those deliveries.
It's definitely not work that a lot of people would enjoy or be suited for, but places like Amazon and Fedex lose a lot of good carriers because they are unwilling to take care of their people. Similarly, UPS and USPS lose people because management and sups still want to push their numbers higher and test the unions in their offices. They can't just lay off drivers, but they can harrass them and force an endless chain of grievances, taking out whoever isn't knowledgeable about their rights in the process. Fucking shameful.
As an Amazon driver in the states, absolutely everyone who can and is comfortable pissing in bottles will do it, to take a bathroom break it is considered one of your 15 minute smoke breaks that you have to start after a delivery so you’ll be at someone’s house and route to a bathroom, it just takes too much time out of your day because as drivers all we need to do is finish our route and we go home, so every driver goes as fast as possible.
As a driver it’s your choice to pee in a bottle and tbh it’s not that bad and people do it bc it can mean going home faster, the common issue is people leaving those nasty pee bottles in the truck for someone else later that same day to find
Thanks for making this video Alex and thanks for your great work! I love the comments as i said some time ago :D
My husband worked for Amazon subcontractor as a driver. He loved his job, it paid better starting than most, and as a motivated employee he got a raise within months. He got a bad dog bite (which is really common unfortunately) and they covered his medical and gave him as much time off as he needed (don't quote me... I believe they paid him too). This was in NJ. He only left because we moved out of state and he would have gone right back to working for them had they had a hub near us. (Our Amazon orders come through USPS/UPS here).
and amazon is like one of the "better" alternatives when it comes to working environments, you should see the conditions other smaller companies have. multiple warehouse/entry level manufacturing gigs that i've been at work you to the bone, hotter and faster paced environment, some of them don't even give you proper ppe and they watch your every step just as much and for abysmal pay. not saying amazon is good tho, just pointing out how this is just the surface of how bad things are. a lot of people don't get to see some of the real bottom of the barrel working conditions that so many have to work under. don't even get me started on chemical plants like nufarm
I agree. But at the same time publicly going after a giant like Amazon and bringing them to heel would be hopefully be a great boon for the working class and inspire others to do the same at other companies that operate with even worse working conditions
@@KM-fb1kw i also agree, i wish i could unionize the people at my site but i'm a contractor i can't do anything and also i dont wanna get fired lol
that knife part reminds me, there's multiple types of knives that are illegal in France (butterfly knives, switchblades, shit like that). You're not supposed to be able to own em. Guess who sells those and doesn't require age verification for that either? That's right, amazon. Pretty sure it was my real birthday on the account too, so they knew I was underage and still let me buy that, along with other stuff kids aren't supposed to be able to buy like vapes and shit but again I'm in France kids start smoking at twelve no one will ever ask your ID to buy cigarettes or alcohol so whatever I guess
Whatever exactly. Who gives a fuck lol. A butterfly knife? Do yall not have kitchens full of knives or pocket knifes for hiking and shit? That's a dumb ass law, who cares lol
THIS IS CINEMA
"Are kids buying knives in the US". I remember on my 9th birthday my parents bought me a knife, gave me some basic knife safety (don't cut towards yourself), and said go have fun. I widdled a spear, and didn't use the knife again until I had to open toy packages.
9:00 to speak to what boy boy was saying about agency employment. I worked for nestle in York (there home city.) they have a fancy office for those employed by nestle. But those of us who worked on the line worked for the agency. No benefits no holiday no paternity leave. It’s essentially a tax right off. The torries wanted to incentivize job creation with tax breaks. The catch is the employment has to be quality. By subletting the process they abandon any responsibility, while reaping the tax benefit. Vile.
I worked at Whole Foods years ago. They showed me anti-union videos and harassed me whenever I took time off. It was hell
listened to the OG vid at work yesterday and now imma listen to Hasan’s reaction today at work 🫡
omg i love this guys vids
Suddenly "potentially endangering people's lives" is a dissuasion to making a profit?
I was a driver in the US and regularly peed in bottles. The trash cans at the parking lot were always full of bottles of pee and snack wrappers because we also often didn’t have enough time to eat an actual meal either. Sure they gave us 30 min for lunch (mandatory), but the downside to taking that instead of continuing driving while on break is that you’ll often end up working 11-12 hours instead of the scheduled 10. I have a daughter, I was not willing to miss time with her, so I would just keep delivering while on break.
Funniest part of this video: WHEN THE EDITOR SAYS YOU CAN USE MICROSOFT AZURE instead of AWS!!! lmao! (yo editor teach me your ways)
I know, I was looking to see if anyone thought that was a funny comment. AWS is literally 14 times bigger than all its competitors combined in the cloud space and most websites are ran on it. They already monopolised that market years and years ago.
I know no one likes an armchair quarterback, but WHY and HOW didn't he at least question the insanity of the manager bringing him into a closed room to *tell him he looks like some guy?*
If he was *ANYONE* else it would be the most insane interaction that person ever had. If it was just some British looking person and the manager pulled him into the office to tell him he looks like a guy called Ookla Booba, they'd think it was some kind of joke.
Can you imagine if a male manager brought a female employee into a closed office to tell her, "I think you kind of look like Supercar Blondie :)"?
It just keeps going. Think its about to end then bam, another segment
Its crazy i work for kroger and they just released a new update for the pick up department that tracks idle time from the time you grab an item to the next
The tactics used by amazon sounded reminded me of disco elysium for some reason lol
never work for warehouses that do delivery of smaller packages, always find those that do pallets. you do the same work essentially except that with pallets, they give you trucks to sit on and do the work for you. you get paid the same sure but at least you're just driving around rather than using your own body.
I worked at an Amazon facility in Kentucky back in 2016. I only worked there for 6 months, they had to literally wheel me out in a wheelchair on my last day because I had developed plantar fasciitis so badly in both of my feet I couldn’t walk without bursting into tears.
Before that, they had me continue working and stop every 2 hours to go get my feet iced at the nurses office.
This is true activism! Keep it up Oobeh
i cant watch the original video cause its blocked in my country, thx for publishing this reaction
I worked at an amazon facility for a few months. It kinda broke my brain. My position (picker) was very lonesome and tedious
Omg! Alexa tried to add lemonade to my list when it came up in the video
He looks exactly like the lead singer for A Flock of Seagulls , I love him ! AND I have NEVER EVER Used Amazon !!!