Submitted 9 months ago by ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to workreform@lemmy.world
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I recall several cases of “copyright infringement” that this reminds me of.
One case was an auto-shop that was just playing music on their stereo system or whatever
another case was an elderly couple that liked to sing songs together
we really have to get the DMCA under control. it does way more harm than good
Amen. If we could get a community against this going, it would be a first step. Would you like to help with such a thing. Lets be the change we want to see.
Jfc.
I bet this is monitored by AI software
My nasal passages aren’t properly developed or something so I have to regularly breathe through my mouth. Wonder if anyone can use that, a medical disorder, to sue after being fired.
Oh man…I want labor to have a massive comeback so soon, absolutely put the screws to the corpo scum.
Wow. This is some Orwellian nightmare fuel. I can see this becoming a thing in a lot of places if this is allowed
I mean Amazon started it’s driving program to undercut UPS -A Union shop. How is this not just scabs getting their comeuppance?
Did you really just blame the drivers for this?
The non-union* drivers in cooperation with Amazon actively undermined another established union sure, yeah. I’d say until they organize or shut-down, they can share some of the blame.
I refuse to believe that Amazon is real anymore.
I’m going to wager this was implemented to keep drivers from talking on the phone all day and because it’s using machine vision it doesn’t know the difference.
Exactly what I was thinking. I wish I was an extrovert. I enjoy the occasional phone call but mostly I just wish I could hang up, even with friends.
My main USPS worker talks on the phone at all times. I see her every weekend and she is NEVER not excitedly or angrily talking on her earbuds. I bet it makes work a lot better for her but holy shit who can just talk on the phone literally all day long.
Amazon is trying to be the government
Slight clarification to the headline: it’s not the employee’s cars they can’t sing in, it’s Amazon’s.
Not that it makes it better, but my first thought was, “how would they know…?”
Aren’t the trucks independently owned, and contracted to Amazon?
They’ve been claiming that, but the NLRB recently found that drivers are employees and able to join the Teamsters.
Does your employer reallly have the right to fire you because you sing in his car ? Is it legal in the US ?
Everything is legal in the usa for corporations and the rich. Just a little itsy fine to pay and then you never hear about it again, even though they don’t stop
This reminds me of that scene in the matrix.
While none of us here can say for sure, I wonder if this is more forced by Amazon’s fleet insurer raising rates rather than an evil directly from Amazon just because they can.
Amazon has roughly 30,000+ delivery vehicles. I don’t know their accident rate. But any injury or accident lawyer can tell you that listening to music and singing and generally be-bopping down the road IS distracted driving. This will cause larger payouts per accident and also higher insurance rates. And it’s low hanging fruit to go after in court. If Amazon is noticing the extra cost becoming an issue, it could well be the reason for such a draconian policy.
I’m not sayin’. I’m just sayin’ it could be a driver, (pun intended), in this instance.
A company having a policy because “the insurance company makes us” is no less evil than the insurance company.
I wish I can upvotes a million times because that deflection is how we got into this evil.
That’s not how insurance works. They monitor average speed, acceleration, and braking, if anything. There’s no correlation between mouth movement and accidents. What if someone is chewing gum? What about adjusting dentures? What about drinking coffee while parked?
Show me an actuarial table that includes “mouth movement” as a variable or admit this is just a middle manager trying something stupid.
Amazon is committing terrorism against themselves.
Evotech@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’ll add this to the “normal in America, totally illegal in the rest of the western world” list
Nemo@midwest.social 9 months ago
Definitely not normal in the US, either.