This. This is how you tell that letting the job market "self-regulate" does NOT work.
this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2024
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That's terrible, no one deserves that type of work environment. Hope Bezos slips on a Banana peel...
fuck amazon
Have we Tried giving Jeff Bezos more Taxpayer Money yet to solve this problem?
I honestly can't even think of a reason to keep giving them money. Half the time you get sold things that are faulty or a scam. They put advertisements on their paid streaming service. They fake the majority of their reviews (have you noticed that nothing on Amazon is below 4 stars these days?). Oh, and I can't forget the most important part. They aren't even capable of treating their employees like fucking people. Who comes up with this shit? This is like, cartoon villain kinda shit.
Wow, this may be kinda pathetic, but this might be what gets me to avoid Amazon.
As long as you avoid them, it's never too late. Fuck 'em.
This should be addressed by fixing the software, but it seems to be easier or cheaper to instead further burden the workers.
Nah, should be fixed by outlawing such invasive and seriously demented micromanagement.
Well, yeah, but that'd take a government not captured by Corporations.
Alexa, who sings this song?
Taylor Swift, and you better fucking keep it that way or else.
Maybe this is why I have been seeing more drivers wearing masks.
couldn't amazon just tap into the audio feed then?
They're not actually monitoring that specific thing. They have a camera looking at the drivers and the recognition software happens to interpret singing as the driver being "distracted", but they don't actually want to modify the software so they are doubling down on what the software has decided.
This isn't right. Singing also counts as distracted.
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The real question is... why the fuck should anyone be micromanaged to this fucking extent. It's probably hurting actual productivity... even if their broken ass metrics are showing an improvement.
It fucking sucks to be deprived of the joy in what you do - there isn't much joy in delivery to begin with but vibing to the music while driving down an empty stretch of road is one of the little ones... the more you suck the joy out of a job the less shits your employees will give.
Heard about this a while back. I think the real explanation is that amazon wants cameras in their vehicles to monitor their drivers. But Amazon's insurer says "if you have this video we want to see it, and if your drivers are distracted in general, your insurance rates are going up" and/or when there's an incident, any evidence of distracted driving will be leveraged against amazon... so instead of getting rid of the cameras, they are micromanaging their employees not to be distracted while driving, where "distracted" includes talking on the phone and also singing or speaking.
It's all really shitty tbh.
I get that with a company as big as Amazon, small margins can make a big difference, but... pretty sure that's just an argument against giant fucking companies running everything...
maybe it's because the more time wage slaves are thinking about not being allowed to sing, the less time they're thinking about how shitty the pay is
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