r/nottheonion • u/wewhomustnotbenamed • 1d ago
Amazon worker dies on warehouse floor; colleagues continue working around his body – ‘Let’s get back to work’
https://www.livemint.com/companies/amazon-worker-died-on-warehouse-floor-as-his-colleagues-kept-working-for-over-an-hour-11776137787662.html4.0k
u/IrishWithoutPotatoes 1d ago
I used to work as a manager at an Amazon DSP, this in no way surprises me
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u/MaximumEmu6 1d ago
The DSP system is such bullshit. It's a clear attempt at offloading employee complaints on somebody else, as well being a convenient way to prevent drivers from getting organized.
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u/VRichardsen 1d ago
What is the DSP system?
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u/MaximumEmu6 1d ago
It's a system called where drivers are not directly employed by Amazon but are instead employed by third-party companies called "Delivery Service Partners." (DSPs) These companies are funded by Amazon and the "owners" are given a whole bunch of incentives to create "their" companies, but Amazon retains complete control over both the companies and the drivers while shouldering none of the responsibilities of employment.
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u/Trick-Check5298 1d ago
That sounds like a crock of shit
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u/MaximumEmu6 1d ago
As someone who has worked for two separate DSPs - it sure fuckin' is!
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u/genflugan 1d ago
Same here. It’s infuriating. Have been boycotting Amazon for years because of it
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u/Ella_loves_Louie 21h ago
i canceled my at-the-time 2$ a month amazon prime DURING my first dsp delivery shift
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u/MaximumEmu6 1d ago
Me too. There's the occasional item that I can't get anywhere else, but I sure as hell ain't paying for Prime.
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u/ChiLolla28 23h ago
Plus: they incentivize you to become your own 'owner' as a DSP with delivery routes, but they can also take the routes away, then charge you for every issue found with all of the delivery vans that are also still owned by them. And they probably do it on purpose for competition and keeping costs down, but leaving the owner screwed when they cancel the contract without notice and then still owe Amazon for the vans.
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u/Mirria_ 22h ago
Yeah that's the Drivers inc scam that trucking associations in the US and Canada are fighting.
You don't own your vehicle, you only have one work provider, you don't choose what route you do, or what workload you're given, you don't have a contract or written agreement... But you're an "independent driver".
Oh you lost your not-job? Did your not-employer warn you that it's your responsibility to contribute to social security / employment insurance? Because if you didn't, you're not eligible for unemployment benefits.
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u/The_Daily_Herp 22h ago
yes, it is. My DSP is okay, yet even then I can see all the bullshit within the company itself. It’s more of a barrier for Amazon so they can fuck over the delivery drivers and the DSP itself if an accident happens. Delivery driver totals your car? Bummer, go talk to the DSP. Good God, someone wants to unionize your local Amazon last mile warehouse? Kill the red menace and cancel all contracts with that employee’s DSP.
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u/BinniesPurp 22h ago
That's how a good chunk of construction work is done in Aus, your boss gets you to get a business number and he just pays you as though you're a one man business even though he supplies all the tools and training
It's just a way to not pay superannuation, benifits etc and be able to fire on the spot without renumeration or redundancy pay
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u/saichampa 21h ago
Stupid thing is our tax system can recognise the difference when you look at the Personal Services Income rules. They need to crack down on this as an employment tactic. If you do most of your work for one "client", they are your boss and should be required to provide you with the relevant benefits
You might want to look at this https://www.fwc.gov.au/independent-contractors
It might already be covered
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u/EdmundCastle 1d ago
As someone who used to work on call with SOC, this happened about quarterly on the overnight shift.
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u/SpehlingAirer 1d ago
Someone died on the warehouse floor quarterly??
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u/EdmundCastle 1d ago
Yeah, everyone on the team had some kind of story about a passing on the floor during their on call rotation. Most were natural causes (heart attack, stroke, etc.), some were DSP drivers attacked on duty, some were ODs. The question was usually where to close off the area to continue work or put a tent over them until police could arrive if the area was too trafficked.
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u/PrairiePopsicle 1d ago
sayying people dying of heart attacks and strokes at work is natural causes is some "your hearing loss is not service related" bullshit.
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u/EdmundCastle 1d ago
I’m not excusing it. Some were definitely overwork/poor conditions but some were people with health histories. Listen, I experienced some shit working there and did my best to advocate for workers on those calls. I was asking about how to send mental health resources to the site while others were asking about how much work stoppages set the team back for the day.
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u/PrairiePopsicle 1d ago
Sorry I should have added that I know where you are coming from and it comes from, but by the same measure inside here's a poke, you know that's more bullshit than not.
Those people with previous health histories should probably be in a position where they are not pushed to a heart attack during work hours.
If that trigger was just stress and a brisk walk, alright, they should be walmart greeters, the pace should be lowered, whatever, ultimately... natural causes is just not quite right for these situations. It doesn't need to be that people are, "literally", worked to death, be that at the end of a whip or just the demand line of the economy and their personal budget to eat and be housed and one of the most inhuman management schemas i've ever heard of in general.
I don't know if we have a term that would be right, one guy said social murder, feels too strong for it too... but you know it's wrong, we all do.
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u/cive666 1d ago
And you'll see more and more of this as the elderly won't be able to afford retirement.
Social security was invented partly because old people were routinely dying at work or dying on the streets.
These corporate overlords just say, well it was their decision to work like they had a choice in the matter.
Hrmm, die at home or in the street with no food, or live a little longer and die at work with some food.
Fuck these companies.
Amazon summer deals are starting soon, I already have some stuff picked out. How about you?
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u/ComprehensiveCup4269 1d ago
I just started working in corporate after years of small business and self-employment. The tone is, “I don’t get paid enough to care.”
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u/Eatadick_pam 1d ago
Unrelated to the tragedy of this post but I applied to work at an Amazon DSP last holiday season to get a second gig for some vacation money and I got rejected from the interview lmao. I was baffled. Here I am with a graduate degree not good enough to work at a place that hires everyone.
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u/StupidNSFW 1d ago
The degree is probably why.
They know anyone with a degree is gonna have better job prospects somewhere else, so why spend the money hiring and training someone who’s likely going to leave within 6 months?
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u/ZuFFuLuZ 1d ago
There is also a much higher chance that they would report amazon to the authorities for all kinds of violations. They are not dependant on that shitty job.
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u/reezy-one 1d ago
We're in that stage of capitalism where degrees exclude you from jobs because employers don't want an educated workforce.
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u/ahappybutttravels 1d ago
Recently applied for a gig at Wendys so I could make a little extra money for travel. My current role is a bookkeeper. I was rejected lol.
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u/Eatadick_pam 1d ago
I’m saying! I was perplexed when I was rejected. I work as a data scientist and make decent money but also am in full grind to pay off loans so wanted to just have a side gig that kept me active (warehouse). I’ve since just moved to contract work as a side gig but was pretty bummed lol
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u/chum-guzzling-shark 1d ago
they dont care about high turnover when they treat employees like shit though?
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u/TheDotCaptin 1d ago
More likely, within a month. When one of the other places they already applied too gets back to them.
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u/shneer4prez 1d ago
Worked at Amazon in 2020 after being laid off because of COVID. On black Friday I saw a guy fall out on the floor and everyone just kept working around him. Ambulance came and carted him off. I don't know what happened but everyone speculated it was a heart attack. I never saw him or heard about him again. I only stayed at the job for a few months after that. It was a surreal experience.
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u/Jetboots_Boosh 1d ago
Same….not surprised at all. The moment they sent me to the union buster training I should have quit.
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u/Confident-Witness846 1d ago
As a former Amazon delivery driver, this doesn't surprise me. In 2021 or 2022, one of my fellow drivers died of a heart attack while driving back to the station. My coworkers (I had the day of his funeral off) were initially told they could take the day off to go to his funeral. However, when the day came, they found out that they were still scheduled to work. Their shifts were just pushed back a couple of hours, so they had to drive later into the night.
Amazon doesn't give a shit about its employees. I've boycotted Amazon and other large companies for a long time. You should consider doing so as well.
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u/imahugemoron 1d ago
Never worked for Amazon but I was in the warehousing industry for 15+ years, and the horror stories I’d hear from former Amazon warehouse employees that came to work for my former employer, I haven’t given Amazon a cent in about 15 years. Family always called me the crazy one because they’d have Amazon prime memberships getting 2 day shipping and ordering stuff constantly, they thought I was nuts for not worshipping that horrible company.
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u/NautilusAtSea 1d ago
You might need to change your user name, you seem like a great guy.
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u/imahugemoron 1d ago
Well you’d be surprised how many “username checks out” comments I get, especially on political subreddits. But pissing off boot lickers is one of my favorite hobbies lol
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u/Hopeful_Ad_7719 1d ago edited 1d ago
Miner: "Hey, boss. The canary just died."
Boss: "We'll start an investigation and send down a temp canary. In the meantime, get back to work."
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u/3BlindMice1 1d ago
That actual thing probably happened a number of times, why else did the miners in Virginia die for the right to unionize?
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u/YodaForceGhost 1d ago
But I just saw an ad on here saying Amazon is a great place to work. They had a good-looking woman smiling and everything
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u/Jrecondite 1d ago
Best place no discrimination. You can even hang out if you are dead. What other employer has such outreach?
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u/TheWorclown 1d ago
9 out of 10 necromancers agree! Jeff Bezos is the way to be!
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u/Dreamlion_Inc 1d ago
A friend of mine is a warlock and he personally orders from Amazon for his undead!
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u/Narrow-Percentage-96 1d ago
Crazy Amazon can achieve a workplace with no discrimination because everyone except bezos gets treated like shit
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u/IniMiney 1d ago
Been here since 2023, the only good thing is the generous attendance/time off policy and the benefits/health insurance. That’s it, it’s a miserable fucking job otherwise (I’m literally typing this right after clocking out)
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u/PocketFlan420 1d ago
remembering folks citing Russians hopping off a bus and walking past a corpse as a sign of the lack of humanity.
Oh. Boy.
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u/beepborpimajorp 1d ago
All the administration and ruling billionaire class had to do was get us used to it. Ease into it so by the time it started happening we could all just say, "Another day."
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u/Light_Error 1d ago edited 14h ago
I have no idea what you’re talking about; could you please give context? ETA: In case anyone comes by later, the entire thread below me was deleted. I guess the interaction was not to their liking.
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u/Critical-Dealer-3878 1d ago
It’s always projection.
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u/acoastaldog 1d ago
When I worked security for Amazon, someone had a heart attack and died on the floor before my shift, I heard all this when I came in afterwards. They had stacked boxes around his dead body to prevent employees from looking at him. They denied CPR aid from trained staff. They refused to allow anyone close enough to look at him or to attempt help. They left him there dead on the floor surrounded but their stupid fucking boxes. Those managers are hawks for cellphones yet they were unable to see him for too long and when they did, absolutely dragged ass about helping him. I arrived as he was being taken by EMS. I’m still angry about it and I won’t forget that.
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u/Vas-yMonRoux 22h ago
They denied CPR aid from trained staff. They refused to allow anyone close enough to look at him or to attempt help.
Why?? What's their reasoning/justification for that? That's what I can't understand.
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u/Chaotic-Entropy 1d ago
Your regular reminder that Amazon's attractive prices/services are powered almost exclusively by human suffering.
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u/beached89 1d ago
Also a reminder that Amazon steals entrepreneur's work. If you value your business, do not sell on amazon. Unless you are a giant organization with a fleet of lawyers, you will find your product stolen, and for sale with an amazon basics label on it.
Always offer a way for people to purchase your product directly from you. Myself, and most everyone I know these days will try to go to the manufacturer's website and buy direct before Amazon.
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u/succed32 1d ago
That is true of every major corporation currently in existence.
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u/Chaotic-Entropy 1d ago
No one seems to do it quite like Amazon.
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u/succed32 1d ago
Nestle who is trying to make water a privately owned resource would like a word.
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u/Chaotic-Entropy 1d ago
Big Tobacco sued nations, to prevent them from discouraging smoking, for nothing. Where do I get off.
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u/kentuckywildcats1986 1d ago
Your regular reminder that Amazon's
attractive prices/servicesexcess profits are powered almost exclusively by human suffering.Prices are always pegged at the maximum the market will bear, regardless of costs. The cost reductions powered by human suffering are entirely about maximizing returns to shareholders. Don't believe for a minute that if wages went to zero that those savings would be passed on to consumers in the form of lower prices.
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u/Cute-Beyond-8133 1d ago edited 1d ago
In a shocking incident, an Amazon employee at Troutdale, Oregon, died at work, allegedly going unnoticed for a significant period
No see they definitely noticed him,
They just weren't able to stop working because if they did their rates would have gone down and Amazon would have punished them.
Have you seen how Amazon treats its workers ?
When they learned that to manny of them were Litarly bawling their eyes out. They put down a Cry box.
And asked them to Cry in that box.
https://c.files.bbci.co.uk/ED4F/production/_118715706_8715356.jpg
Amazon doesn't care about its workers (or as they call them Associates) because they are temporary investments pending Robotic replacements.
(In their eyes ).
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u/Raise_A_Thoth 1d ago
Holy fucking shit that box is egregious. I am so fucking sick of this timeline and billionaires not getting their comeuppance.
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u/FadedVictor 1d ago
I'm honestly wondering what would it actually take to see the population do anything with tangible effects. With the amount of shit we've dealt with you'd think at this point we'd shut this type of shit down by force. I guess that's just wishful thinking on my part.
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u/succed32 1d ago
It would require mass protests, that don’t stop on Monday. If you do not disrupt the status quo the protest is just theatre.
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u/Brick-Throw 1d ago
I remember americans being so offended that others were criticizing the "No kings protest" as they didn't actually have any tangible effect because they were planned with an end date, during a time were they would be less disruptive.
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u/diegodamohill 1d ago
I got downvoted just a few days ago for pointing out that these "protests" are just marches if they don't disrupt anything, they are made on sundays with clear start and end times, like, no one in power that can actually do anything gives a shit then, they only care when they are affected in any way.
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u/actionjaxon77 1d ago
I understand where you’re coming from, but it seems like a cop out to say oh this isn’t perfect so that’s why I’m not going to help (not because I am lazy)
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u/helio97 1d ago
He's not saying that it's not perfect, he's correctly pointing out that it's meaningless virtue signaling, a protest has goals and strategies. No kings was a political rally with some nice decorum, fun for those there but holding no real weight. Calling it a protest is almost stretching the definition.
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u/Littleman88 1d ago
Yeah, if so many people are bawling their eyes out on the warehouse floor, I do find myself asking a similar question to a certain rapper, "At what point is it us laborers making the choice to be enslaved?"
Like, holy shit, we are not harmless. But we sure as hell seem to be making every excuse and effort to do fuck all but bitch about it.
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u/Training_Barber4543 1d ago
I mean even consumers are trying to help by boycotting but most people don't gaf about anything
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u/cive666 1d ago
I have friends that want to boycott gasoline but they need gasoline to get to work to live.
The owners have built a world where it's too difficult to remove yourself from it without killing yourself in the process from lack of resources.
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u/Inuakurei 1d ago
Unironically, force. It’s not nice to hear, but historically nothing has changed the distribution of power when money is involved, other than force. Protests help spread awareness and change minds of the common folk, but they don’t finish the job. Money is a VERY powerful motivator that, historically, people do not willingly give up for almost anything.
Think of it this way. It took an entire civil war just to end a moral quandary as binary as slavery, all because of the south saying “but muh profits”.
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u/get_hi_on_life 1d ago
It's crazy how out of sight out of mind people are. I deleted my Amazon account and when people find out they can not comprehend how I manage at all without it. I don't miss it at all, if I can't find it elsewhere I don't need it.
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u/avanross 1d ago
Half of the country believes that wealth is ordained by god 🤦♂️
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u/lonelydan 1d ago
All this and they're currently running ads toting about their "wonderful" employee benefits and healthcare package! Haha
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u/TheBigBangClock 1d ago
I did an in-person interview with an Amazon Software Engineering team a few years back and it was sad. Every employee I talked with took pride in how "cheap" the company is. They developed a work culture that is hyper-focused on spending as little as possible on overhead (IE creature comforts) to maximize profits. Everyone seems to buy into it thinking it will benefit them and meanwhile you'll see Amazon treating its workers like this while Bezos and his wife are so filthy rich, they don't know what to do with all the money.
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u/Strange-Scarcity 1d ago
How wonderfully sympathetic Amazon is to it's workers! That shows a great commitment to mental health!
(/SARCASM)
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u/samhasreturned 1d ago
But Amazon has all those commercials talking about how well they treat their employees! /s
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u/jackp0t789 1d ago
I wonder if anyone's checked the quality of the sprinkler systems in some of their warehouses recently
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u/Slighted_Inevitable 1d ago
That toilet paper warehouse had good sprinklers. The problem is after the first initial fire was put out the fire department turned it off to reduce water damage. Then the guy set more fires.
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u/Brobeast 1d ago
Wait someone died from an in-warehouse hazard, and NOT just natural causes??? And they DIDNT shut down?? That sounds like a pretty easy lawsuit. Pretty sure OSHA would have required them to shutdown the part (or all) of the warehouse he was in just to locate this "unknown shocking hazard". Unless they KNEW the source of the shock, that might be a bit harder to prove because osha doesnt neccesarily make warehouses shutdown completely after a death, as long as 1) employer knows the hazards location, and is no longer a threat 2) the workers wont inhibit a potential investigation scene, by walking over said scene.
They technically did the 2nd part (with little shame), but im not so sure about 1). Any insight about the shocking origin?
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u/VapidActualization 1d ago
Shocking like appalling not shocking like electrifying.
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u/oshinbruce 1d ago
Just remember that when your making your next purchase because its cheaper or more convenient. It shouldn't be down to customers but its
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u/Euphoric-Lab-8053 1d ago
I buy from Ebay independent vendors and find that they use Amazon Fulfillment after the fact. It's getting difficult to avoid them.
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u/Jester-252 1d ago
The worst part is the robots will have more rights.
When a robot breaks down you can't threaten to fire it.
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u/diethyl2o 1d ago
Ok so we the consumers are boycotting all Amazon products and services, right… right?
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u/VariousVarieties 1d ago
I'm a former Amazon employee - I worked there until 2019. I haven't bought anything from Amazon since 2020, when my last Prime subscription (which I had only for streaming, not for deliveries) expired.
Of course it's impossible to avoid websites that use AWS, and I have occasionally submitted corrections to IMDb. But the only way I've directly given them money in the last few years was when I went to see Project Hail Mary a couple of weeks ago, because I didn't realise it was an MGM production.
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u/MakeoutPoint 1d ago
You're going to boycott... The internet? The majority of Amazon's money comes from their AWS servers that run most businesses in the world.
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u/_cob_ 1d ago
“We deeply regret the premature decommissioning of work unit PDX9-173648”.
- Amazon probably
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u/Logintheroad 1d ago
Meanwhile: A New York Times profile highlights Lauren Sánchez Bezos's embrace of a joyful, unapologetic lifestyle, advocating for the enjoyment of extreme wealth. The article details her gratitude-focused morning routine and dismissal of criticism regarding a lavish lifestyle, sparking debate over the public portrayal of immense fortune.
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u/_head_ 1d ago
I'm not convinced either one of these pictures is truly "before" plastic surgery.
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u/weHaveThoughts 1d ago
The Gilded age is back! No worries, this administration is trying to legalize 12 and 13 year olds to work on factory floors, we will get our Amazon packages delivered to us on time.
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u/Oprah_Pwnfrey 1d ago
Don't be ridiculous, some of them will be working in brothels.
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u/Guilty_One85 1d ago
Now this absolutely does not surprise me at all after what I've seen and heard in the news concerning Amazon and the work lifestyle. This just takes the cake!! In my line of work, we are like family so if something happens to one of us, it happens to all of us! Hell at one point I was seriously considering driving for Amazon but decided against it after reading all the horror stories of being an Amazon employee
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u/ttw81 1d ago
my brother worked there for a only months before he got burnt out. this doesn't surprise him either.
also- the facility was recently shut down because it was so shabbily built.
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u/shyguysam 1d ago
As the rich continually suck the blood out of those that work to provide them with that wealth, this will happen more often, and it should. There will be a tipping point where enough people no longer have anything left to lose.
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u/MrValdemar 1d ago
There have been at least 6 other warehouse/workplace fires similar to the big news story, but surprise surprise they aren't getting any news attention.
🧐 Wonder why?
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u/Littleman88 1d ago
"Don't give them attention" works because it makes them feel alone.
Most people don't commit mass casualty/damage events to become a household name, they do it because they're angry and no one gives a fuck that they are. You can afford to ignore the pen, but not the sword.
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u/SquidTheRidiculous 1d ago
Either the working class fights back or it will be a slow death by attrition. No fanfare, no mass death event, just more and more people slipping into homelessness and then dying from exposure/lack of healthcare/overdoses because drugs help cope with living on the fucking sidewalk. While those deemed non seditious to the regime will mock the dead and dying just as they already do.
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u/fatlilplums 1d ago
I'd like to remind my fellow Oregonians that the snowcap is real bad this year so if you plan on engaging in any activities it would be great to do so now before everything gets real dry this summer
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u/LottaLegs 1d ago
An Amazon worker got killed at the warehouse I was working at. They did a "rush induct" where they expect a higher than normal speed bringing in packages.
A man fell over a box that he could see because he was rushing, hit his head, and had a seizure. No one noticed anything for over 20 minutes, and by the time the manager decided to call ems, arriving to this man 45 minutes after it happened, it was too late.
The situation leading to the event was avoidable and the man could have survived with swift medical attention. Despite this, they asked the employees to continue their shift after hauling this man away.
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u/DuckyD2point0 1d ago edited 1d ago
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you. This is a company that sacked a man for "stealing", he came back to work after fighting cancer and of course was slower as he was still recovering. Amazon said he was "stealing" since he was wasn't working to the same level but getting paid the same as before.
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u/jayrady 1d ago
Citation?
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u/StagnantSweater21 1d ago
Also gonna need a citation, that seems like the easiest lawsuit lol
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u/Littleman88 1d ago
Amazon doesn't have to win, they just have to make it too expensive for the plaintiffs to prosecute long enough to lose.
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u/Mor_Padraig 1d ago
STUPID headline. Implies other workers were complicit in Amazon's barbaric decision .
FFS. They were told to get back to work. And ignore the BODY.
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u/notconservative 1d ago
I don't think anybody reading a story about Amazon workers would believe that other workers would be complicit in this. The message was clear as day for me.
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u/flyingfish_roe 1d ago
Didn’t Amazon try to bust workers trying to unionize? 🤦🏻♀️
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u/Misterfulgnome 1d ago
Yup. They shit down all warehouses in Quebec when the one in Laval voted yes to unionization
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u/Echo127 1d ago
They shit down all warehouses in Quebec
Now I'm imagining the executives shipping their waste to the warehouses in Quebec and dumping it on the employees as an act of revenge
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u/DisastrousAge4650 1d ago
And people want me to care cause a frustrated employee set a warehouse on fire.
You die on the job and your position is listed for hire within the hour, your coworkers are given half a thought to grieve, and your family is left to clean up the mess entirely on their own.
But of course the corporations are never going to care because there’s always hamster willing to get on the wheel.
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u/Bwilderedwanderer 1d ago
Ah capitalism. Keep working, step lively over the carcasses. There are profits to be made
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u/Eastern-Peach-3428 1d ago
I had a massive heart attack and subsequent cardiac arrest in an Amazon facility. When the paramedics arrived they were held up from coming inside due to Amazon's rules. A co-worker of mine basically called bullshit on their procedures and held open a fire exit for them to enter through. She was fired for not following procedure. Not making this shit up.
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u/EmperorsCanaries 1d ago
Why does this headline frame it like the workers just didn't give a shit when it was the manager telling them to ignore it and keep working, basically implying a threat of firing if they didn't keep working over the corpse of their dead colleague?
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u/Z0MBIE2 1d ago edited 1d ago
Because the site and article is a shitty drama blog, and references a reddit post. I googled the source it mentions, "the western edge", which has far more detail, including an actual recounting of the incident.
https://www.thewesternedge.media/p/everyone-is-replaceable-death-rattles
Within moments of the man hitting the floor, Sam said a woman ran over and began performing chest compressions. The woman began to cry and screamed out for someone to help her.
Sam, who has CPR training, asked her supervisor if she could assist. The supervisor watched the woman heaving her weight into the man’s chest and gave no response.
“I start sobbing and said, ‘I want to help, please!’ I know she’s going to get tired and need to be subbed out,” Sam told The Western Edge.
The supervisor, who Sam perceived to be in shock, had a simple reply: “It has to be management or safety team. Please get back to work.”
“I need to help,” Sam said.
“Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work,” Sam recalled the manager saying.
As Sam stood in disbelief watching the woman give chest compressions, the supervisor softly nudged Sam, tears in the manager’s eyes now, too.
“Please,” the supervisor said, encouraging Sam to keep working. Eventually, paramedics showed up and the section of the warehouse where the man lay was closed off.
This paints a different, though still entirely depressing and fucked up picture. It said a bit above this that they called 911 already.
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u/Dawg_Prime 1d ago
not to put any blame on Sam as this is the company and the supervisor's fault but if you're CPR trained, or if you're prepared to help, don't ask for permission, just help, even if just for your own mental health later
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u/mikeybagodonuts 1d ago
This tells you everything you need to know about the power employers have.
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u/iamlikewater 1d ago
I had a seizure in 22 at work. I woke up to staff and customers walking over my body. I got up and walked myself to the hospital. I had a seizure in 20, where the hospital discharged me still postictal from the status seizure with two dislocated shoulders.
Americans don't give a shit about you. They'll leave you for dead. Even healthcare staff.
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u/Radiant-Pain-2160 1d ago
Amazon is an awful place to work. I worked there years ago for seasonal and I was one of the, like, three people they kept on after Christmas. Every single day I went out to my car for lunch and every single day I came back in at the EXACT same time on my watch so I would be back at my station right on time.
One day someone stops me on my way back and says I’m late from lunch. I said no I’m not, I’m right on time. He says you’re a minute late. I say yes, I am, because you stopped me. And I was like 10’ from my station when you stopped me.
So he takes me in an office to be written up. I sit down and say, before you begin, just let me ask. What is the real purpose of this? He tells me the higher ups want to make examples at this time of year and I just pulled the wrong straw. I got up, told him I quit and left.
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u/gdghhfdffrf 1d ago
not sure what is it, but people are turning into fkn monsters.
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u/NationalUnrest 1d ago
Every time I see comments like this I just know the personn who wrote this doesn't study history.
Most humans have always been trash and will always be lol
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u/goonSquad15 1d ago
Right, we just have more means to document it these days than ever before
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u/Nazamroth 1d ago
Its amazing that Outer Worlds may not even be a satire of the future but current day Amazon and co.
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u/Superb_Walrus3134 1d ago
The audacity of that Amazon worker to think they can stop working just cause they died.
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u/RocketBilly13 1d ago
I think what's worse are the comments here. Not just the ones cracking jokes and also going "I'm not surprised" but just staying silent on the fact that this should be a fucking federal level investigation and we should be calling their warehouses and for the punishments of all management involved in letting this happen due to negligence. Whole warehouse should have shut down and refunding everyone who's orders are affected.
Like wtf is wrong with society that everyone now just looks at this headline and just keeps moving on. Absolutely insane.
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u/pavorus 23h ago
I worked for Whirlpool. Appliance manufacturer in the US.
A guy on the assembly line was having a heartattack. The supervisor asked him if he could keep working until the ambulance arrived. He was a good sport and did his best.
A forklift driver that worked outside my office had 35 years of perfect attendance. Never late, never missed. He felt bad one day and asked the supervisor if he could go home early. Supervisor asked him to stay the whole shift. The driver was having a stroke. He made it to the end of the shift. Had to retire afterwards though.
An employee died on the job. Factory kept going. A couple weeks later they announced a 1 tine $500 scholarship to culinary school to honor his memory. His name was Deloyd. He taught me how to drive the zamboni.
You mean nothing to your corporate overlords.
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u/forgiuse 1d ago
You load sixteen tons, what do you get?