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
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    21 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.