[Prayer Warrior]

Originally Posted by Prayer Warrior

Well, Amazon managed to one up them. A recent report showed employees had around six times the injury rate as the industry average (https://www.theatlantic.com/technolo...juries/602530/ )


Also, there are frequently stories about management indifference to employee injury.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics...nic-warehouse/





Not only that, Amazon is so efficient employees don't even have time to go to the bathroom and have resorted to urinating in bottles.


https://digg.com/2018/amazon-workers-pee


Now Jeff Bezos is the richest person in the world. I think the message here is crystal clear. The more you encourage rugged individualism in your company the more successful you will be.

Bezos is stepping it up again in finding new and exciting ways of whipping workers into shape.


https://www.vice.com/en/article/88np...hey-didnt-make

In early 2021, Amazon installed AI-powered cameras in the delivery vans at one of its depots in Los Angeles. Derek, a delivery driver at the facility, said the camera in his van started to incorrectly penalize him whenever cars cut him off, an everyday occurrence in Los Angeles traffic.


“Maintain safe distance,” the camera installed above his seat would say when a car cut him off. That data would be sent to Amazon, and would be used to evaluate his performance that week and determine whether he got a bonus.


“Every time I need to make a right hand turn, it inevitably happens. A car cuts me off to move into my lane, and the camera, in this really dystopian dark, robotic voice, shouts at me," Derek, who asked to remain anonymous because he feared retribution from Amazon, told Motherboard. "It's so disconcerting. It’s upsetting, when I didn't do anything.”


In February, Amazon announced that it would install cameras made by the AI-tech startup Netradyne in its Amazon-branded delivery vans as an “innovation” to “keep drivers safe.” As of this month, Amazon had fitted more than half of its delivery fleet nationwide with this technology, an Amazon spokesperson told Motherboard.

They're called "bonuses" for a reason, because you're not entitled to them.

“The Netradyne cameras that Amazon installed in our vans have been nothing but a nightmare,” a former Amazon delivery driver in Mobile, Alabama told Motherboard. “They watch every move we make. I have been ‘dinged’ for following too close when someone cuts me off. If I look into my mirrors to make sure I am safe to change lanes, it dings me for distraction because my face is turned to look into my mirror. I personally did not feel any more safe with a camera watching my every move.”

“Amazon uses these cameras allegedly to make sure they have a safer driving workforce, but they're actually using them not to pay delivery companies,” an owner of an Amazon delivery company in Washington told Motherboard. The owner said he received no training on how to use Netradyne cameras. “They just take our money and expect that to motivate us to figure it out.”

It's no wonder he's the richest person in the world! He's finding brilliant innovations like these to put more money back into his pocket.


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/featu...-for-big-boats

Bezos’s superyacht, which likely will cost upwards of $500 million to build and have its own support yacht with a helipad,

Money well spent.