This. This is how you tell that letting the job market “self-regulate” does NOT work.
Amazon Bans Its Drivers From Moving Their Own Lips Too Much At Work
Submitted 8 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to workreform@lemmy.world
https://jalopnik.com/amazon-bans-its-drivers-from-moving-their-own-lips-too-1851639312
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DaddleDew@lemmy.world 8 months ago
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Of course it works, what are you talking about?
Oh, for the employees? Nooo no no. Not for those haha.
m4xie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Apparently Amazon has refuted this. Much like they refuted the pissing in water bottles, I expect.
exanime@lemmy.world 8 months ago
what’s that URL? looks like the sites where they push the bad kind of porn
/s
return2ozma@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Hilarious
andrewth09@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The guy delivering Amazon packages wearing Amazon clothing and driving an Amazon van filled with boxes from Amazon has NOTHING to do with Amazon the website.
anubis119@lemmy.world 8 months ago
protist@mander.xyz 8 months ago
Evil Picard
return2ozma@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Nice
itsathursday@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Stop using Amazon…
monogram@feddit.nl 8 months ago
That includes AWS!!!
ChilledPeppers@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Whats the alternative? (For real, i have a ec2 instance there, and I guess I could use azure or google cloud but they are shitty companies too)
blazeknave@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Vote for elected officials that champion regulations
wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I really wanna go to an event where we’re just literally roasting selected billionaires over a fire, eating popcorn as we listen to their screams, and watch their flesh darken as it burns. So whole celebrating how much negative karma is leaving the earth all at one time.
I’m not even kidding. I would literally enjoy physically going to such an event. Bezos and Musk would probably be the stars of the show.
Does Bezos even “do” anything at all? Ever? Or is he just cashing checks while underlings deal with all the “work stuff”?
I mean I would be downright ashamed if a company with my name all over it was looked on this badly.
MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
I get what you’re saying but I get weirded out by people who go from "violence is necessary" to glorifying it. I’ve seen people dying before and I don’t think I’d ever find it satisfying to watch any human burning to death.
Justice is one thing but I think there’s a lot of sick fucks who practically get off to violence or at least violence like this in theory because they’ve never seen some horrific shit firsthand.
we_avoid_temptation@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
As much as watching everything literally burn would be exceptionally cathartic, it wouldn’t be useful. If you ask me, these CEOs and rich bastards can work X hours a week scrubbing toilets or otherwise contributing to society.
If you refuse to contribute to society cause you were rich and think you’re hot shit, then jail. Something like the minimum security prison in Norway where the point is rehabilitation. If you’ve committed war crimes or premeditated murder or otherwise genuinely can’t be offered even that much freedom, then real prison, but still a decent real prison.
Putin and his ilk are a different matter. What was good enough for Mussolini would be just as good for them.
Redruth@feddit.nl 8 months ago
Have you considered working in an abattoir? Might be the job satisfaction you’re looking for.
EnderMB@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Bezos hasn’t been the CEO at Amazon for over three years.
BigMacHole@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Have we Tried giving Jeff Bezos more Taxpayer Money yet to solve this problem?
PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 8 months ago
[deleted]dirtbiker509@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Whose camera system is it?
Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
I would imagine the contractor company. There’s dudes in my area who deliver out of their car or a shitty white van. It’s great.
PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Good question. Amazon could require their camera system or a camera system, or it could be the owner installing the camera on their own.
2ugly2live@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s still crazy to me the the richest man in the world has the worst working conditions. He has more money than he’ll ever need, than he can ever spend. Maybe taking a hit next quarter wouldn’t be the end of the world.
Chewget@lemm.ee 8 months ago
That’s how you get to be the richest person in the world
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
There were probably other people like bezos who didn’t squeeze their workers as much as possible, the market would have filtered them out.
2ugly2live@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s true. 😔
can@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Wow, this may be kinda pathetic, but this might be what gets me to avoid Amazon.
TommySoda@lemmy.world 8 months ago
As long as you avoid them, it’s never too late. Fuck 'em.
memfree@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
This should be addressed by fixing the software, but it seems to be easier or cheaper to instead further burden the workers.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Nah, should be fixed by outlawing such invasive and seriously demented micromanagement.
memfree@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Well, yeah, but that’d take a government not captured by Corporations.
TommySoda@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I honestly can’t even think of a reason to keep giving them money. Half the time you get sold things that are faulty or a scam. They put advertisements on their paid streaming service. They fake the majority of their reviews (have you noticed that nothing on Amazon is below 4 stars these days?). Oh, and I can’t forget the most important part. They aren’t even capable of treating their employees like fucking people. Who comes up with this shit? This is like, cartoon villain kinda shit.
we_avoid_temptation@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
This tech isn’t new, exactly, though it’s probably significantly more sophisticated now. I used to work at a company that used similar monitoring a decade ago. Theirs was (allegedly) triggered only by the motion of the vehicle, I believe DriveCam was the brand name. It sucked back then, I’d imagine it sucks worse now.
My guess with the reality of the situation is Amazon or their insurance company required installation of the cameras and a low-to-mid level manager somewhere noticed that singing was triggering them, so the manager told people to stop and eventually you end up with this news story. Amazon gets at worst plausible deniability and shitty things continue.
drdalek@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This was updated at 5pm (my time)
Amazon is saying this is fake and untrue
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 8 months ago
return2ozma@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Amazon trying to cover their ass? Thank you. I’ll add the update to the post:
Updated Wednesday, September 4, 2024 5:10 p.m. EST - Amazon reached out to deny the reports of a crack down on singing along with the radio in trucks and provided this PR video clip as evidence. A PR spokesperson told Jalopnik: “This post is completely inaccurate. Amazon has never issued guidance or communications to Delivery Service Partners that prohibits singing in the vehicle.”
m4xie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
bannanaente@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s terrible, no one deserves that type of work environment. Hope Bezos slips on a Banana peel…
Juigi@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Normal dystopian stuff, move on people
Fedizen@lemmy.world 8 months ago
i wonder if amazon signals could be jammed
AshMan85@lemmy.world 8 months ago
fuck amazon
Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Maybe this is why I have been seeing more drivers wearing masks.
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
couldn’t amazon just tap into the audio feed then?
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
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.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
They’re not actually monitoring that specific thing. They have a camera looking at the drivers and the recognition software happens to interpret singing as the driver being “distracted”, but they don’t actually want to modify the software so they are doubling down on what the software has decided.
heyoni@lemm.ee 8 months ago
What? No, you’re seeing masks because of the surge in covid. Article was updated to say Amazon is refuting the claim. It’s bogus.
EndlessApollo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You forgot to put Amazon in your username, I thought they required that from paid shills
TommySoda@lemmy.world 8 months ago
/s