Amazon's algorithmic management of warehouse workers slated
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: Web souk hits back at critical study into union drive at package depot

Amazon has used tricks, algorithms, and surveillance to discourage warehouse employees from unionizing, according to a paper published in the journal Socius.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
    50·
    18 hours ago

    Me 8 years ago:

    I’m absolutely not getting a job at amazon, or ups, or usps. I’m not taking a job where you don’t have permission to pee. I’m a human being. I don’t care if I’m the president of the united states giving a state of the union address live on tv. If I have to pee, I’d tell the camera “Hey America, go grab a snack or something. I’ll be right back in like 2 minutes.” Fuck it, if I gotta pee, that’s just what I’m going to do. Fuck your profits for 3 minutes. I’M expelling waste.

    And then my sister is like “it’s not that bad.”

    Then me reading news 6 years ago that an amazon worker died of a heart attack and his coworkers didn’t even stop to call 911.

    My sister thinks I made that up.

    • MrVilliam@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      17 hours ago

      And they’re terrified of all the childless cat ladies opting to not produce their next generation of laborer/consumer brood to be said replacement. Hence the crackdown on abortions and contraception and people who pair up in ways that cannot yield children. You can’t have the infinite growth that capitalism demands if the number of producers and consumers goes down.

  • smol_beans@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    16 hours ago

    This is what every big company does just sometimes without the algo. This is why we need unions