Maybe in Germany it’s different, but in the US nearly every company is like that. Amazon is just the biggest fish for them to go after.

Nursing is like that. The minute you get injured, it’s time to leave. Besides, it’s bad mentally and physically. I am sad to see this happening in other industries. Besides, having physical problems, I became suicidal. Amazon has been more slow to deliver items. Yet, they are pushing the people who work for them, to get hurt. I am glad that the warehouse my cousin works in is not like this. But, he is 59 years old and having severe knee pain and back pain. That’s a job that is good for the young people. Just the repetitive nature of the job can injure people. It’s capitalism. I have herniated disks in my neck, a back injury and bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome and my schizoaffective disorder is so bad that I am an emotional cripple. The company whether it’s Amazon or the hospital, they make you work until you can’t anymore. I also injured my wrist at a hospital job. If you get it checked by the company doctors, you can be assured that your injury will become crippling. Also, having to keep a quota in order to keep the job. Florida is one of the worst places to work, as in any right to work states. They can find an excuse to get rid of you and forget about having a mental illness and frequent breakdowns, because of work.

@@cindyeisenberg8367 I started working in Adolescent residential mental health facilities when I got out of college. Very low paid job caring for kids with very serious issues, many extremely violent. I was assaulted, with a blow to the head that was hard enough I lost vision for several minutes and was sent to the ER. Still had to be on the job for a double shift 6 hours after I got home from the hospital. That was just the beginning of my injuries. I have chronic back pain from an assault over 20 years ago, severe neurological issues, and PTSD. Was permanently disabled before I was 40. All because I wanted to help the less fortunate.

lol shocker

And that's completely fair, nobody is forced to work for them.

amazon has been growing so rapidly.. and then we had the pandemic and the near collaps of our economiy and socieity.. I am hopefull that things will get better

Yep they are aiming for that high turnover they want everyone to quit in 4 years or less Use you up chew you out, older workers get lazy is their motto

Their warehouses also ruin a community, we have one nearby and the only benefit is getting your packages faster, I know of a fleet driver that got royally screwed by AMZ and yet our UPS driver just retired after 20+ years on the job....go figure.

@@LeTrashPanda please clarify "I know of a fleet driver that got royally screwed by AMZ" and what does that have to do with "our UPS driver just retired after 20+ years on the job"

The biggest problem I see here is hiring a women in her 50's to do such a physical job. The warehouse I work in only hires young physically fit people who are actually capable of lifting all night long. By the time someone at my warehouse reaches their 50's they've long been promoted to a less physical role. I suppose it also helps that we pay nearly double what Amazon pays so we attract a younger more physically fit crew.

That is not true

​@bellat63 I saw a documentary with ppl who worked for them ..they stated it IS true.

If a documentary says it then it must be true /s 🙄

It’s call knowing the right people and sliding some $$$ under the table 🤪😅

Corporations get to right their own regulations! Corrupt af.

​@@KrypptikkSoulslayer.

They're killing gentiles.

They work hand-in-hand with the government.

ludicrous

@@myoldvhstapes my point is still valid

@@visceratrocar In different area codes.

In some warehouses, pick rates are as high as 120. Especially in singles

In What CITY/STATE??? Las Vegas NV 200per

Just work at the speed you're comfortable with. Don't work til injury.. silly humans.

@@jrey6186 You need to not comment when you’re upset bud, you stated the exact thing I said. Be aware of your surroundings and don’t trust the people that are gonna constantly push you to work for higher rates.

yeah bc they aint gonna cover your hospital bill then will probably fire you for getting hurt anyway

@robertoooooo After two warnings of not having high enough rates, they will fire you.

They actually aren't. Rates are set for 75% can meet the numbers

@Eric Scoggins amazon wants a increase of 10-20% every year. So if ain't now isnt will in the future. 75% is true unless you're new. It's the average and of you're in the bottom 5% you get written up for rate

@@BeastIsBlaze yeah I’ll admit my fubar. I’m in sc so my fc info is outdated and I should’ve been cognizant of that knowing amazon changes rules like most ppl change their undies. Was actually just made aware of how bad it was last night lol

WORKERS HAVE NO RIGHTS!!!! NONE! THANK YOU ALAN GREENSPAN!

I agree, this is 100% true. That’s why I gave them folk a one day resignation lol. I left and never looked back. They called us “industrial athletes”

um no it's a sign people aren't taking a life's savings important

@@FloridaMan69. touch grass kid. The retirement age continues to get pushed further and further out, people can't afford their mortgages, rent, or any other basic necessities. The country is failing

There are old people who are shredded. People shouldn't be pushing to hard and build up to it. That's what I do. And slowly I perform better and better without killing myself. and what used to be hard becomes easy later. Now ofc if you find company manager that is patient with you and doesn't want you go crazy on day one. Luckily in German Amazon you get plenty of time. There people super slow and don't really get fired for long time and if you get past 6 months you can stay till the end of the contract anyway

Boomers voted for all of this hard to feel sorry for boomers

Most of the young ones have zero work ethic. Half hour restroom breaks, extra 10 minutes before break extra 10 minutes after, on their phones all the time, hanging out socializing, etc. That's why there's high turnover. I basically work there for the medical insurance but the pay and benefits are better than any company I've ever worked for. I'll stay as long as they'll have me. I'm mid 50s by the way.

That is great self-reflection.

i think 1-2 day shipping is what made amazon popular and usefull to consumers.. all consumers. I think ultimately robots and drones will supplant human labor mor and more.

@@manp1039 Yes, and perhaps, but in the meantime there are many humans expected to perform such labor with both robotic and superhuman efficiency, consistently. And that expectation leads to so many injuries. I think perhaps a better way might be having longer ship times as the default (like 1-2 weeks, or maybe even longer, depending) and for high-priority needs customers could pay extra convenience? I mean, how often do we buy things online and NEED to have them within two days? I know if I personally need something that quick, I'll either go to a physical store, or make do with what I have while I'm waiting.

@@BrambleGlade Which brings up why are we Shopping Amazon at all? Was life so unadvanced years ago when Amazon didn't exist? Was it really that much of a hardship to wait a week for something from Sears or Montgomery Ward or so difficult to get to a store if you needed it right away?

@@manp1039 That is exactly why we as consumers have the ability to prevent that. We could all stop shopping from companies that are moving towards robots... but that isn't going to happen. Self-checkouts are still around and we continue to use them. :(

They want you to quit.

They pushed my daughter-in-law out of the door to keep from having her to claim worker's comp.@@heartofjesusdj

Very very true

How did he receive that injury

Yup! My thoughts exactly ❤

yep absolutely I agree

Why? Is it that much of a sacrifice to order from or go to somewhere else?

Pay a buck or 2 more, stop feeding the Beast

Then I hope you’re intentionally choosing slower delivery when given the option. It’s almost always there.

Yuuuuuppp! You get written up for taking too long! Mind you, you gotta walk quite a bit to find a decent bathroom and when you do, sometimes the cleaning crew is cleaning 🧽 it , and you have to walk further to find another one! That takes time!!! By the time you make your way around back to your dept they are writing ✍️ you up for taking too long! It seems illegal to me!

Do they supply the depends?

Osha is so underfunded dude, don't go there unless you know what ur talking about

It’s all about money in a business, they’re the business 😅

Hi @Sweet Karma whould you mind help me in responding to an anonymous survey regarding Amazon? Is for my Mba Master dissertation.

It makes anger just ridding this 😤

The thing is the drivers aren’t employed by amazon

​@SoL they wear Amazon uniforms, and drive Amazon owned vans following Amazon procedures..

@@BryantFarris Yes they do but that's where the legal implications of being a full time employee (FTE) versus being a contractor come in. They represent Amazon by wearing uniforms, driving Amazon vehicles and following their procedures but they are not Amazon FTE. They work fr a company that Amazon contracts to do a job and I'm pretty sure in order to get a contract with Amazon, the company has to assume 100% liability if one of their workers get injured while doing work for Amazon. Amazon absolves itself of liability.

Do you still work there or know anyone that is still working there?

I stowed before. That shyt sucks

😮are you still working there now?

Thank you bro

Gee. Thank you so much for doing your part lol.

Same! I always wondering when I’m not prime I still get it delivered pretty much overnight or within a day and a half. And I always pick the slow free shipping

You feel bad but you keep ordering

​@@xro1983some folks can't get out to shop or shopping isn't convenient due to crime

They took the jab. That's why they got strokes.

They didn't get a stroke because of the job. That's not how strokes happen

I work with all types and ranges of people. Work till we die, it's everywhere. Not just Amazon. They give equal rights, and everyone has a chance. Of course the weak fail, and the strong survive.

Strokes don't happen like that. They did not get those because of the job.

@@xtreme242 he said jab i.e the cov1dvaxx.

Maybe you should have payed attention in school so you can have a real career with a future and not just become a number in a work line.

​@@P2Feener305ok burger flipper

🤣🤣🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣😂😂😂😂 yea like 19 years ago

@@P2Feener305 I have a bachelor's degree from FSU and a good career. This didn't happen yesterday obviously.

Sounds like you often used your time off when you shouldn’t have. Amazon gives ample time off before fired, several weeks a year minimum. If you use that up then that’s your fault, people shouldn’t be given endless time off

Monopolies and outsourcing jobs creates this type of suffering. IT'S ALL DONE ON PURPOSE..

Not true!! Employees are treated with utmost respect and safety is the number one priority every day every shift every minute of the day. they focus on safety and well being of employees but if employees cant pay attention and dont listen to whats being said is not amazons problem. I work for amazon too, we have safety meeting twice a day, we do stretches, we are being told to work safely not fastly, its employees who create problems for their own selves

@@RoyalRythmzWhat about what OSHA said? What the workers in the video are saying? 43% more injuries than other warehouses!

Bro what job does not have people secretly dating each other lol

@@Ammut6 that’s crazy, is that you Jesse? My work best friend is named Jesse

Stand-downs are a hallmark of systems that want to blame the people rather than improve the processes. The thing is, humans are very prone to mistakes. When we rely solely on human performance as a safety measure, that is what is called an administrative control (basic rule setting) and it is one of the most inferior means of process control. Processes need to be designed and engineered to be inherently safe. This not an easy thing to do and most pressed into supervisor and low management jobs don't have the first clue of how to do it. So they beg and plead in these stand downs for people to act safer and when that fails, they don't hesitate to blame individuals involved in accidents for not working safely enough. One example where I work, there are lots of complaints of people driving forklifts too fast. We have a policy that says they should not be driven more than 5 mph anywhere and only 3 mph if near people. "Near people" is not clearly clearly defined. We have "halo lights" defining safety boundaries between forklifts and people but half of them don't work properly. Speeding can cost a forklift driver their forklift privilege or even possibly their job. Halo breaching can cost both the forklift driver and the pedestrian their jobs. With that being the case, there should be a 100% never-fail requirement on the halo lights and frequent reminders of what they're for, and for the speeding, the forklifts are capable over 15 mph. They should be electrically/mechanically limited to no more than 6-7 mph if not 5. If we truly believe that is a life-critical requirement that they not be operated at any higher speed, it is simply irresponsible to let them be operated above.

😮Are you still working there now?

They deny everything.

Perhaps that simply demonstrates how bad Amazon are that they can not cover up their activities. If a competitior can manage to get past the authorities easily, and Amazon is calle dout multiple times for it, then you know Amazon has not slightly screwed up, they have REALLY screwed up.

One of my BIGGEST beefs with OSHA is them announcing a visit a week or more in advance... they should just show up out of the blue and do their walk through with absolutely **NO** forewarning... Many employers are always riding the ragged edge of safety and trying to dodge it whenever and wherever possible... This has been going on for decades and it only gets worse as the machines go faster. If **I** were running Amazon, I would make it *MANDATORY* that every single member of management had to work an entire day on the floor doing the average workers job... maybe even two days. I would also sue the living hell out of those production rate companies that do not take any other factors into consideration when determining "cycle time"... I have watched those very workers WATCHING, not doing, the actual work and still shaving off tens of seconds for "lack of efficiency"...

Well you shouldn't have lied period! Everyone should have told the truth.

Good job making it easier for your former employer to injure you and then claim it isn't their fault when something happens. By lying to OSHA to hide problems you are protecting executives that don't care about you as long as the money keeps rolling in. I bet they gave you some line about how everyone is "family" there.

@@edwardpaulsen1074 yep, common practice is warehouse type jobs. That's why i only worked their for couple of years,.

Meaning output per hour?

true I also work there and rate is the only thin managers care about.

I worked at a Walmart distribution center, that place was all about rate. I've never seen anyone complain about that place 😅

wow that is hideous

😮are you still working there now?

they have thousands of lawyers.

If u think its just Amazon think again. If anything theyre going after Amazon more because of their popularity and at least Amazon is actually trying to do something about it. Other companies that do way more dangerous work dont report injuries either n definitely dont care about safety but u dont hear about them on the news like u do Amazon. I wonder why that is🤔

@@yvonnecortes_ I’m thinking bc Bezos isn’t going along with government crap that’s why they are pulling this, I work at Amazon I love it and yes sometimes ppl get hurt but not like these ppl are talking and you can get hurt at any job. Yeah they are going after Bezos bc he’s not in with the nwo I’m thinking.

Amazon takes care of their ppl believe me! If someone gets hurt amazons is right on it I’m proof of it and so many others.

Lawyers

Yes sir 💯 rather be a security officer again

People like you just want easy jobs that pay more than you're worth. This is why AI will replace you soon

False. I seen grannies doing crazy stuff as a dancer. I seen old dude doing hundred of push ups and jacked. They use work out based on science. So it's possible it's just people typically then they get older they relax and comfortable so they get weaker

damn looks like your time is coming up soon

Wouldn't make any difference, the order would still be there and it still wouldn't get picked until its needed.

The system they have at an FC is built on mistreatment of people for the sake of speed/productivity to the point of damaging them physically. Managers have to "not care" just to remain in good standing. And honestly, most of the managers I met were totally fine with that. To me, that's disgusting and it's why I stopped seeking promotional opportunities and quit eventually.

Amazon managers are all corporate ass kissing sociopaths. I just hope one day someone treats them like disposable trash and they remember all of the people they screwed for kudos from their boss!

Paragraphs bro. And finish the quotation marks lol.

they legit give u vans with worn brakes

Very true its not safe, people get overworked and their bodies break down this happens to everyone, i have been saving my money since day one, if i leave or get fired i will have enough money for 6 months, to find something else to do.

Back in 2017 I was sent to the hospital for 3 days because I pulled a muscle and the muscle enzymes went to my kidney

I don’t know how much of this is due to not training staff enough and not using the most efficient procedures. I haven’t worked at Amazon but find that I do my job more efficiently, not by going faster but by working in a much more organised way.

It’s not physically demanding if you’re fit. I bet you are fat, just like the workers in this video. You’re gonna be in pain, that is a given. Once u lose weight, you will notice a difference in performance

what you are describing is similar to the story of the conditions of people working for Ford and GM in Michigan during the early 1900s. there are some good documentaries on it.

@@manp1039 I know. Thank goodness I am disabled, now. Unfortunately, that was the best thing to happen to me.

It’s Orwellian double-speak to call it ‘Right to Work’ When it really means anti-union. It means the workers who organize & vote for a union and negotiate a contract aren’t able to collect union dues for the benefits EVERYONE enjoys! Unions utilize collective bargaining to elevate working conditions and they also educate on workers rights and lobby legislators on working conditions. In a ‘Right to Work’ state, this work is inhibited by restrictions designed to break the union and under fund it.

@@GaiaCarney what is the avarage union dues for largest unions? and are they a percentage or a flat rate? And of the money they pay for union dues, how are they treated in terms of income taxes? are the union dues completely deductactable seperately as a contribution to a non profit organization?

Omg you had to do your job booo hoooo emotional distress hahahahha get real Cindy !!! Nothing but a coddled spoiled brat !!!!

That's why they want immigrants legal and illegal.

Turnover is common in this type of work. Their pay scale is entry level. For Amazon, if you are not seeking higher education to qualify for other Amazon Positions, then you are going to be looking for work in another couple years once you have the experience for your resume. The 90 days thing had to do with the bonus Amazon was offering at the time. Once they got that bonus, they left. If you already had a job, especially one during the shutdown then it was an easy few thousand.

Naw there are too many low skilled workers, high inflation making people need second jobs, and a bunch of illegals to do the work.

I work in a wharehouse and they are hiring drivers every single day, so they have an unlimited supply of expendables to go through everyday.

The new fulfillment center in Detroit is hiring at $19/hour. That's better than fast food places around there. They should have a lower turnover rate.

Same in Maryland. Some workers went to get copies of their reports and were told they don't keep them or information was destroyed.

That may be true but then companies end up moving overseas. That is how American jobs get lost.

Its hard to complain or even get another better paying with inflation so high.

This comment needs to be pinned 😂 very accurate

@@rudagata2134 Would be kind of hard to do two day shipping like that Amazon is entrenched

Exactly!!!!

Healthcare is used to lure workers to work for US employers 🏢

I’m at Amazon now and tbh it’s only until I’m in a better position and can save up. It sucks that Amazon can hire everyone but then most places don’t even give you a call back.

Join the Navy

​@@tim62103not with a bad back

Maybe don’t be the cool kid in school and actually get an education so you can have a real career and not a job where you’re disposable.

Why is your back going?

@@jesussalvation288 heavy lifting and bending takes a toll on your back after a while

Because CNBC is always trying to promote businesses

😮 are you still working there now?

@@peterwalrond2058 yes yes I am............sadly at that

How do you know?

@@rol407 I'ma robot

I'm a small guy and I work in AMXL. I do get sore but it's becoming less frequent as my body is getting used to the job. I just work at my own pace and not stress so much about rates and time off task. Lucky my managers are chill but I would rather get yelled at than hurt myself.

American doctors are not held to the same standards by medical associations as places like Singapore, UK, and Australia where the medical associations have a lot of power.

This is a minor detail, and you're still right, but Amazon doesn't keep doctors on staff at the warehouses. Instead, they have an EMT who gives first aid for minor injuries. Anything major that would require a doctor they refer to a doctor they pay for through worker's compensation, which is a government program for injured workers.

You're right , it's obvious a lot of people remain poor due to ignorance, it's better to take risks and make sacrifices than to remain poor

It's not ignorance but due to some unprofessional broker in the market

I recently got into forex trading and im already marveling over the profits I'm making, I'm like " how the hell have i been sleeping on this

Same here, I wish I knew about this Bitcoin trading earlier, brace up and get yourself some Bitcoin before it's too late

Any specific guide

we have vto everyday at my wharehouse I inured my knee so I take as much as possible so my knees healed, but I'm not getting paid so I have to come to work inured.

Corporation means, dead body. 😢 You are only a number or product from your social security stock market. 🎉