Amazon worker dies on warehouse floor. Workers told to keep going
finance.yahoo.comWhy do I get the feeling Bezos will try to lobby to have the law allow Amazon to harvest dead employees’ organs and sell them for profit if they die in a warehouse?
Logical extension of standard business mentality, if you’re honest enough.
I expect to be working until I’m dead also
How much do you have set aside for a service or burial or cremation? It came up during an argument recently with a family member, so if your outlook is that bleak, try not to shuffle off this mortal coil and leave us in the hole to put you in one. Please.
Just throw me in the trash
That is not a viable solution in the United States. Perhaps you live in India or Brazil where such solutions are legal? If not, when are you moving to such a country?
Lets hope the lawyers for the poor person's family and the workers forced to keep working are very good at their job.
Employees are in middle school so if something happens they should get a day off or something.
You consider it normal working condition if you're right next to the corpse of a colleague? As in literally, because that's what the article is about: being made to work right next to the corpse
In think that's quiet extreme, honestly. Wat beyond what it'd expect any supervisor to ask of the employees.
most people have some connections to their co-workers. And if one of your friends dies right in front of you... it should be human decency to at least give then some time to settle until the body has been taken care off.
Youre responding to an account less than a month old
Ah, I didn't check that. Thanks for pointing that out.
I guess that was me interacting with a bot
Amazon employs around 900,000 people in logistics. The crude annual mortality rate in the USA is around 911/100,000. If there are 900,000 employees working eight hours a day then around seven people a day are dying of natural causes on their shift. This is without considering that they are being worked to the bone.
>>> .00911 * (8 / (24 * 365)) * 900000 = 7.487671232876712
This only works if you assuming the mortality rates are evenly distributed. Most of the people who die are not working right until the end—and the conditions which lead to them dying usually aren’t compatible with a demanding job.
You are correct that it is a rough estimate but my point stands. While most of us will never experience the shock of someone dying at work, it is an every day occurrence at the scale of Amazon.
Your point doesn't stand, because you haven't made one. You just did some math. Maybe it's correct... but what are you trying to say?
And making people continue to work when their coworker just died on the floor is nonetheless inhumane
Sounds like something out of a dystopian movie
The utter contempt you express for human life is abhorrent. Cloaking it in math only exacerbates your cruel disregard for, well, lacking shame in expressing such mental illness in public. I’d recommend therapy but you probably have a formula to justify not going to that either. Disgusting.
Whether you like it or not, these numbers provide context. The raw data make no moral judgements.