Don’t see this happening everywhere. This is being done to save themselves from liability in an accident. They don’t have cameras watching their warehouse workers although they have rules like no earphones are allowed which are typical for safety in a warehouse or plant. I worked as an Amazon driver for a month. Everything they do or say is to cover their ass from getting sued.
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Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Welcome to the new norm, within 10 years every worker will be on camera full shift.
But we’re too busy stopping literal fascism and nearly every GOP-packed court will uphold it as perfectly fine and normal for everyone making less than 150k a year.
IamAnonymous@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Schmoo@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
They don’t have cameras watching their warehouse workers
Uhh, you sure about that?
Introduced during COVID and as far as I’m aware most never went away. Especially in warehouses at risk of unionizing.
IamAnonymous@lemmy.world 3 months ago
What are the tracking now? If employees are actually working? There were no social distancing protocols but I’m assuming there are cameras to prevent theft.
Schmoo@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
Yes, cameras and security theatre at the entrance/exit that rivals airports.
memfree@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
No, it isn’t. If it was just for liability, they wouldn’t have to care what the driver did until someone filed an accident report or other complaint.
This is about crappy software that COULD be improved, but it is cheaper to threaten thousands of people with punishment for singing than it is to pay programmers to refine their ‘distracted’-pattern recognition.
IamAnonymous@lemmy.world 3 months ago
During the orientation they said we aren’t allowed to reach out to grab water or any snacks while driving, no touching the screen or dashboard to make any changes. My DSP (Delivery Service Partner) didn’t care to enforce that. Most of them would have AirPods in and talk on the phone all the time. So we weren’t flagged for talking or singing. But having those rules itself is terrible. It was just my temporary job and I hated how those employees are treated.
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
But we’re too busy stopping literal fascism and nearly every GOP-packed court will uphold it as perfectly fine and normal for everyone making less than 150k a year.
“Bread and circuses”
CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 3 months ago
That’s one reason I’m glad to work in a local public service position. They will never have the money to implement such a system, let alone be able to pay anyone to maintain or monitor it. They can barely keep the wifi working.