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The real question is… why the fuck should anyone be micromanaged to this fucking extent. It’s probably hurting actual productivity… even if their broken ass metrics are showing an improvement.

It fucking sucks to be deprived of the joy in what you do - there isn’t much joy in delivery to begin with but vibing to the music while driving down an empty stretch of road is one of the little ones… the more you suck the joy out of a job the less shits your employees will give.

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eramseth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Heard about this a while back. I think the real explanation is that amazon wants cameras in their vehicles to monitor their drivers. But Amazon’s insurer says “if you have this video we want to see it, and if your drivers are distracted in general, your insurance rates are going up” and/or when there’s an incident, any evidence of distracted driving will be leveraged against amazon… so instead of getting rid of the cameras, they are micromanaging their employees not to be distracted while driving, where “distracted” includes talking on the phone and also singing or speaking.

It’s all really shitty tbh.

I get that with a company as big as Amazon, small margins can make a big difference, but… pretty sure that’s just an argument against giant fucking companies running everything…

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solsangraal@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
maybe it’s because the more time wage slaves are thinking about not being allowed to sing, the less time they’re thinking about how shitty the pay is

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- TommySoda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Even slaves were allowed to sing.
  
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  - HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I had a job where my boss got angry at me for playing music in my office with the door closed, because I was wasting bandwidth. On my ipod. So I used headphones.
    
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    rednalsi@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    what a tool
    
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  - shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Now I want to see a black Amazon driver dressed as a slave, singing “Swing Low Sweet Chariot”, and getting chewed out for it over an in-van loudspeaker.
    
    “Yuhsir! Won’t happen again suh!”
    
    Can you imagine the emergency PR meetings?!
    
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- TheFriar@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I feel like the more workers are generally miserable, the more they’ll be disgruntled
  
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