The reality of working on Amazon's archaic production line | Pubcast clip with Oobah Butler
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2023
- Before the release of his new documentary with Channel 4, The Great Amazon Heist, viral sensation Oobah Butler swung by JOE Towers to share what it was like being undercover at Amazon's fulfilment centre.
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unions are our ONLY defense against exploitation
Socialism will end exploitation for good
Everyone should join a union without them we would have nothing, it’s because the decline of unions we are in this mess.
Management encourages you not to be in one, because it takes the rights away from you and this is why we have hire-and fire
Technically the government should also be a defense.
@grapetoad6595 yeah, 100% but, if you where a large enough comp you might be able to curry some favor thru lobbying.
Needs to be unions
socialism will shrink middle class more @@Web3Future333
Boycotted Amazon for years especially after reading about their tax 'contributions', and this has just reaffirmed my decision, ridiculous company with stupid practices that should be banned no matter where they operate.
Solidarity with the Coventry Workers!
This is what I don’t understand. People moaning about robots taking jobs, this is exactly the job that should be replaced by robots. No human should have to do this shite anymore. I worked at Amazon warehouse for Xmas once. I lasted a week…
I left an hour before the end of the first day. Didn't even tell anyone. One guy in particular was HORRIBLE
@@gregoryboatswain1605 was the mind numbing work and feeling like a battery chicken that did it for me. I’m a landscape gardener, so not afraid of manual work. That wasn’t work though, felt more like torture 😂
@@allenjenkins-xd5ui by the time a robot is smart enough to do my job I will be old enough to quite happily let them get on with it 👍🏻
I walked 12-14 miles a day, for 9 months as a picker. Took my body a couple of months to recover .
The issue is that the robot will take the job with no system to provide the former human worker with any income.
It's the great failed prediction of sci fi writers. They all thought robots would give us more free time, but instead, they've just put millions into poverty.
No wonder it has taken unions so long to form when they need 50% of workers, when a large % are on a temporary contract and just want a quick buck. With zero hours and visa structure the effective % needed needs to be considerably smaller.
Since when do people on temp contracts want a "quick buck"? It's all that's being offered. If there were permanent positions available they'd take them. Don't demean people based on their contract you silly c*nt.
Hope to see these jobs vastly made better when Labour get in. A rich country shouldn't have people working poor.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Have Labour said anything to make you think that might happen? They've reneged on a few things that would've made it better for the working class, but I don't know of anything they plan to do to actually decrease the immense wealth gap in our society.
There has never been a period under a Labour government (or any other) where there has not been working poor. There's no reason this would be any different this time.
Blame lack of investment and far too much reliance on cheap foreign labour. Labour ain't going to change that
Jesus wept… Labour 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Wow that’s great
Just watched the channel 4 doc. Absolutely brilliant. Oobah is a hero. So glad I stopped shopping with Amazon 5 years ago.
I never use Amazon.
The problem is, American companies operating in the UK. They are the ones hellbent on making UK workers work under US conditions, but for UK pay. They're literally raping & pillaging.
Yeah, they are evil
Me neither but I'll guarantee that my neighbours make up for that tenfold, sadly. I take in enough of their parcels.
When is the doc out?
It was out a couple of days ago on Ch4
@@paulmoore4344 I looked on ch4 and it says it's not released yet, guess they delay the release 😕
Vile awful people. That advert they put on the TV a while back was just worst example of how utterly amoral they are.
Amazon have stuck adverts over this!
Admitting to being a Union Buster is a bold move 😂, needs to be talked about but still
I worked at amazon during covid and is was not too bad but talking to people that had been their before that was not how this warehouse normally worked. I got lucky the govement had set so many temp rules for covid that changed the way staff had to work
Boycott Amazon
Oobah will always be oobah..❤❤
Big shout out to the bro wearing the argentina rugby jersey 😂
"if the tories get up your nose then picket"
I wouldn't work somewhere where it was assumed I was lazy and dishonest.
I am seeing a young Boris Johnson here 😂😂
Long lost relative haha😂😂😂
amozon prey on the oversea people that come into the country, they know these people cant get jobs easily so they pay them peanuts…its like a prison in there with wardens walking around!
Nope. Was 50 local 50 foreign (mostly Europe, pre Brexit) when I worked there. The pay is actually better than other warehouse jobs.
The only wardens I saw were outside the warehouse in the reception areas, except for the few times when some idiots were caught trying to steal stuff.
The whole attitude towards workers right now is horrifying, you're treated as you're expendable, you have an injury at work? Or your body cant cope any more? You're out the line of people waiting is long, by design, of course. You're treated as your just an item that can be used, broken and thrown away. This is why we need unions. And this is why I believe, the union vote should only count for people who've been hired for 6 months minimum and no temp workers, to stop this practise of temp-hires being used to skew the vote.
I thought it was Boris Johnson!!!
i have hypothyroidism , im in my 40s . at this point in my life , wherehouse work is NOT FOR ME !!!
you do realise with proper treatment, you should be able to lead a normal, healthy life.
@@stuontwo677that still doesn't mean warehouse work would be for them necessarily ?!?
I NEVER use Amazon & NEVER will !!!🤬
If every one could just get youtube jobs and channels it would be perfect! Lets protest and get it so everyone can get a job with a youtube channel.
Why does anyone whatsoever ever need to be 'under cover' in the UK 2023? If workers weren't petrified to speak - the truth? So much for workers being protected, to merely, speak at all. What are employers so afraid of - it's pretty obvious isn't it? So much for 'freedom of speech' in the UK in 2023. As always it seems to be the right wing that promote and call for freedom of speech (they're right), but actually oppress exactly that when it's for ordinary working peoples freedom of speech? There is no freedom of speech in the GB, in relation to employment, until you've been employed for 2 years (or 1 year in NI); because you can be sacked for saying anything at all, with no reason needed to be given at all, by the employer. So, this, is, the, UK, in, 2023.
Has to be said, that guy is the double of a young Boris Johnson 😬😅
Without the Bulls..T.
@@johnstirling6597he's boris love child 😂
Im at a loss as to why the laughter or the joking is appropriate
Don’t worry inheritance tax and bankers bonus s have are being cut , and benefits are being cut gain for the 27 th time in 12 years
Levelling up Tory ukip style
Amazon are terrible.
Most manual jobs are repeated actions and not funny.But hey ho...content.
I think we can agree though that most manual jobs don’t use cameras to record your every move on camera, and make the employees resort to pissing in bottles and crying from the pain.
@@danielhoskins4690 Warehouse theft is real. Many stories of employees trashing or stealing stock.
Most call centre work is the aural equivalent
If he said 'like' a bit less, finished his sentences and didn't digress so much, it would be easier to concentrate on what he's saying.
The vocal fry is also not helping.
The plain lie at 5:21 - all of that is done by packers. You don't need seperate people to open, then close a box 😂
I've worked in the Amazon warehouses for over 4 Christmases, each time conditions got better (first time didn't have AC - that was tough). We knew the jobs were temporary - 3 months and then dismissed after the busy Xmas period. Repeat.
First off, warehouse work is naturally tough. Complaining its slavery because it isn't an office job is silly.
We aren't worked to the bone. We can go to the toilet whenever we want - obviously if you're taking the P, they will call you up on it.
Night shift pay + 1.5x pay at 50, 2x pay at 60 hours, was pretty good, especially for a manual job with a minimal required skillset.
If you have a physical condition, obviously you shouldn't apply.
And warehouse theft is common - ask small and medium sized companies about it. That's why there are cameras and security.
profile checks out
@@ggelftrauts Not really, Tom's a small business guy, if you've played the later ACs he is very community focused.
Also still the only mortgage provider in existence that will let a stranger get a property and pay it back when they want, interest free.
Get a load of this, an obvious amazon manager trying to justify and downplay the horrendous working conditions he forces onto his subordinates.
These jobs are not meant to be careers. They are stepping stones to better jobs and opportunities. Most people start off in low pay jobs.
There should be no such thing as low pay work. All workers regardless of what job they do should be given a wage that is actually adequate for the cost of living. Minimum wage should be £20 per hour!
Majority of foke in the warehouses at amazon are middle aged with kids.
So you mean these jobs aren't worth doing?
@@Gph0367 do you have any idea what that would do to the cost if living?
@@Gph0367 Why not a million pounds an hour, because raising minimum wage puts prices up and causes inflation devaluing your larges to nothing ?
5:15 Womansplaining.
Oobah seems incapable of human speech!
Not at all, I understood him fine.
Maybe you have sketchy perception. It's possible. I noticed nothing incongruent.
It's English tone and accent, what are you talking about
It's Ed who always seems to have trouble stringing a sentence together, that coupled with his Scottish accent, it's difficult listening to him. I'm surprised he got the gig as a presenter tbh
Turn your volume up or put subtitles on if you're hard of hearing.