"The only thing we hate more than injustice is inconvenience" truer words have never been spoken

I worked for Amazon, and I can confirm it is one of the least compassionate companies in existence. I got fired for "job abandonment" when my car broke down. I lived too far away to get there without it. I followed all call-out procedures daily. It took five days to get it fixed, and when I came back on the fifth day, my badge wouldn't work to get into the warehouse. A guard came and took the badge to "have it checked," and called HR. He told me someone would come up to resolve it shortly. They left me standing there for over an hour, without anyone talking to me. Finally, I understood what they had done, and left. When I got home and checked my email, I found that HR had sent a message right after the guard had taken my badge, informing me I had been fired. Funny thing is I still get emails asking if I would like to come back, which is par for the course among Amazon employees. See, unless you steal from the company, or commit an act of sexual harassment or violence on company premises, you'll never be ineligible for rehire. The company uses this to claw back company stock and other retirement benefits before they can vest. Then, after a few weeks, they offer to hire people back: workers who won't need any training or period of adjustment to the Amazon way of doing things. There's a reason Jeff Bezos looks so much like a Bond villain. The man's company would make Dr. Evil blanche.

"the only thing we hate more then injustice is inconvience"

*"The only thing we hate more than injustice is inconvenience."*

Used to shop at Amazon for books, clothes, and so on. Cancelled it a month ago, now shop at small stores and buy clothes and such from independent artists/groups. Never felt so good.

The workers shouldn’t be peeing period! In fact, Bezos should require a fasting policy during prime week. God forbid I get my package a day late. Unacceptable!

"the only thing we hate more than injustice is inconvenience" well said jim

Everything in America is profit driven. I used to work in a hospital where my immediate superior would commonly suggest that I forego giving medications, and just send the patient up to their room; which delayed that person getting their medicine for at least an hour. All to push push push to open up a bed for another customer.

I like the segment, but this situation requires a little more then donating to good causes. Ads as many have pointed out, many Americans can't afford to do that anyway. The government needs to protect its citizens against these horrible practices.

I live in the Balkan.....we have a month of vacation every year not counting holidays........ i feel sorry for you Americans even if you have 2-3 times the pay

Hey, Comedy Central, how about setting Jim Jeffries up with his own KZfaq channel?

"The only thing we hate more than injustice is inconvenience". That's a great fucking line.

Unfortunately boycotting is the only power you have as a consumer. The government will never do anything about it, especially if we all continue to accept this as normal.

That’s why I use eBay instead of Amazon

"Decorate the Bezos bush" 👀

It looks like the Gilded Age came back to haunt us again.

Wage slavery needs to be abolished

So awesome how the US has free speech and you can call out a company publicly like this without getting sued. In Taiwan, where I live now, libel and defamation are criminal offenses and people sue others all the time @_@

Wow that's some horrible stuff :(

I work at an Amazon warehouse. Thank you for calling this shit out.

I worked as a sortation associate for amazon for ~ 8 months and it was terrible. I worked on the dock unloading trucks the majority of the time and the managers would always tell us to ignore the safety rules to go faster. Alot of the guys that worked with me in the truck got hurt and we always had a ton of bruises. One time I sprained my wrist deflecting a large heavy box that was going to fall on my head and then got chewed out for breaking safety protocol by not using a ladder which we had never used before and I got written up. After 6 months only about 20 of the 200 that started with me were still working there. Extremely stressful job with a high turnover rate and the manager was always quick to remind us that we were all replaceable.

I think for the most part we’ve all gotten so accustomed to getting everything instantly that we have collectively forgotten that a.) the cost of that is overworked cheap labor and b.) it wasn’t always like this. Just like 15 years ago if you ordered something from a store or catalog or off the internet back then you waited a week or two at least before it arrived. A two week wait for something is unheard of today. But in order to get anything to you next day requires more people working on getting it to you. And to get it to you cheap you can’t pay those people too much

Capitalism baby, at its prime You gotta love it

How about Apple/Iphone guilt. I love how most people just ignore that little tid bit.

Proud to say I have never ordered ANYTHING from Amazon. I hope the government breaks them up.

I think that idea of balance at the end is a really great idea and I'm kind of ashamed of myself that I haven't thought of that before

My wife & I use Amazon constantly...buying stuff every week....watching Prime every night....waiting for stuff to arrive by FedEx....then ordering even more stuff. Plus...I have to violate ‘human rights’ to advocate for ‘human rights.’ You’re right Jimmy Ol’ Boy!

Brilliant! All too true.

I love Jim Jefferies more and more with every damn video or audio clip.

Awesome.

Long live the Jim Jefferies show! My favourite junkie comedian, such a role model!

could have mentioned sanders town hall about this subject

I feel bad for the average workers in the US. They should stand together and fight the corporate tyranny. I hope Europe does not get infected as well.

I will never shop on line. I'd rather be in line. 😁

I used to work at a Zappos warehouse and it was annually regarded as one of the top 10 best places to work in America. Free vending, weekly catered lunches, every month seemed to have some fun idea/program (ex: we got to wear full costumes, so long as they didn't impede our work, for Halloween). Then Amazon bought em out and I quit within a couple months. The pay from Zappos to Amazon didn't change and I was driving 45 mins each way so once they took away the fun, it wasn't worth it. I never pissed in a bottle or had to work 80 hours but I can sympathize. I've gone to those lengths with other jobs. However I know with just about any warehouse job you do work 60+ during peak seasons and certain days (Black Friday, Cyber Monday and others). If you call in or are late those days, you'll likely be fired.

All of my friends who say they care about injustice will never quit Facebook or Amazon, it’s shameful

Bezos for modern day slavery work!

The Amazon manager mocks his employees. Also he is very greedy and very cheap.

One minor problem, Jim: Americans prefer to live by spending money they haven’t yet earned. From credit bill to another.

So true.. I'd LOVE to boycott Walmart for a variety of reasons, but every other store in our area is worse due to scam "sales" that have you buying and spending 2-3 times more than you wanted...

Jim Jeffries speaks so much Tru Tru, I'm always impressed and entertained by what he comes back with.

great commentary.

Ah yes, the quest to live a morally neutral life. I don't want to fight injustice, but I also don't want to feel bad about it.

The whole point of big corporations is their efficiency. Economies of scale is a thing. Your local supermarket is the cheapest place to get common goods, and online shopping is the cheapest/only place to get niche items. Small businesses don't necessarily treat workers better, they screw over workers just like the corporations, while doing it less efficiently. If you donated to a charity every time you shopped at a big corporation, 1) spending more money defeats the point of shopping there, and 2) the more you donate to charities the less mandatory treating each other decently becomes. We tend to donate more when the economy is good, but the people who need help need it precisely when the economy is shit. Ensuring rights are upheld and people get what they need is the whole point of having government.

"The only thing we hate more than injustice is inconvenience." Maybe the quote of the century?

You can find alternatives to Amazon all over the internet. For example, if you still buy CDs and Blu Rays, go to Deep Discount and Barnes and Noble for books.

“The only thing we hate more than injustice is inconvience.”

I was really worried at first, but I'm really glad this plan avoids any harm to our precious corporations.

This actually sounds like a great way to use tax money. Tax money from junk food companies should go towards fighting obesity. Tax money from cigarette companies should go towards lung cancer and cigarette addiction. I just looked at the 5p plastic bag tax. I can't see any mention of where the money goes. It's basically left to individual companies on how they spend the money, but is recommended that it goes towards "good causes". There doesn't seem to be any stipulation on using the money to fund tackling the issues that have caused the need for the tax to begin with. With the issue of plastic environmental pollution I think the money would be best going towards helping the environmental damage caused by plastic pollution, as opposed to say, finding their local sports club.

This makes for great scandal and fodder but as a former Amazonian who has worked for the Warehouse as a line worker, operations in Seattle in close contact with mid-level managers, and from home as a Teleworker.....I can honestly tell you that the truth is somewhere in the middle of the two extreme's. For some, at the very entry-level of Amazon, it can be a decent experience with moments of pure, unadulterated hell while, for others, people simply explain away the challenging moments as the cost of being apart of a large US corporation. I have seen great managers and I have seen detached taskmasters bent on breaking their employees while hiding behind internal policy. Your mileage as an Amazonian will vary from department to department and from team to team. But its not a clear-cut situation of unethical or immoral people exploiting desperate workers who can't afford to be unemployed. Amazon, on the whole, does have some questionable internal practices with regards to how they track time and manage schedules (and compel overtime); however, they give ALOT of time off (with the caveat that there are blackout periods when they will basically fire you if you take it). They have better benefits than most other US companies that only try to "appear" to provide benefits but then when you go to use them you basically discover they are non-existent in practice. Plus they allow for certain leave of absences that most simply do not have unless you use FMLA. The benefits for medical & dental immediately cover the employee from day one. Heck, they provide paid Paternity leave.....most US companies are still behind the curve on that trend. Most of the abusive situations within the company honestly stem from the competitive culture within the company that pits managers and employees against each other to compel ever higher outputs from the same set of resources; and this can result in some of what they characterize as emotional abuse....but honestly...efficiency has always been the anti-thesis of humanity and so they encourage people to use their time off internally: we used to call them "mental health days." Now am I making excuses for the abuses that DO HAPPEN internally: no, of course not. But I wanted to bring a more pragmatic, less mob-tastic perspective. For some, sure it was a hellish experience....for others it was one of the better employers they have ever had.....but for most, the real truth of the stressors of Amazon lie somewhere in the middle of those two realities. Amazon does take self-reflection seriously and is always tweaking their policies and benefits (and I have little doubt that this negative coverage is also being internally discussed for such changes as they can make. Anecdotally, the less flexible, more entitled (I'm looking at you Europeans) of a human being you are....the less of a cultural fit and more strife you bring to the existing culture of the company. But if you can be flexible and are pragmatic about who you are working for (and are willing to work harder than you probably ever have for any other employer outside of being prior military) then its really one of the better companies to be apart of. But Amazon isn't a one-size fits all employer and there will always be those who have negative experiences to share; just like any other company. There is rarely a purely evil company....just for-profit conglomerates with parts to improve on. That's my point.

3:51 his real accent slips out 😂

With just his income he could end homelessness and starvation around the world.

Bezos belongs in prison.

I struggle to find that balance every day lol... It's hard to enjoy stuff without ruining something...

"hate homophobia, but love Chick Fila" - I see the dilemma!

Jim Jefferies is a wonderful man

Come work at a Sortation Center (not a Fulfillment Center) if you want pee breaks. It's literally all people do at Sortation Centers. Everyone just strolls around, maybe moves a couple boxes around, then walks around the building for one of their 467 daily breaks.

My gf is a supervisor in receiving at the Amazon warehouse. They gave her the week off to go to Utah for her mother funeral. It was paid time off. And after every prime they give employees 1000 dollars for each prime they work. She received 4k because this is her fourth prime and she didn't even work it lol

Very formulaic

It's been 3 years since I used amazon it was difficult at first but I found there are plenty of cheaper stores.

The only thing we hate more than injustice is inconvenience. Now that is the root of all evil

I can attest to the piss bottle thing. I took an "unauthorized" piss break one night (they provided water on the floor after the whole dehydration debacle) and was promptly confronted for not being productive... prompting me to promptly throw my badge at the shift super and walk out. Am I kind of a hypocrite for calling them out? Yup. Probably. But it's worth putting the experience out there so people know the stories are true.

Order your socks straight from the manufacturer.

What if I occasionally make a purchase at Hobby Lobby, donate to Planned Parenthood, occasionally eat at Chick-fil-A, and start donating to gay rights organizations, but I pay for everything with an AmazonRewards Visa so I can get free stuff on Amazon. How do I balance that out?

Just bought stuff of Amazon and felt guilt about some old lady running around a warehouse trying not to pee on herself to grab some light bulbs for me.

Thanks for the wake up call mate!

This is brilliant. Can we actually do this please? Pleeeaaase?

I got myself a real snazzy coat at Marie Curie's on Sunday for a grand total of £7. Now that's how you offset.

This rather makes sense. Boycott alone is not realistic, what would work is to create pressure from the legislative/executive on bad business practices, to make it possible, support those groups/ organizations who would help to protect people's rights.

I found out a lot of really bad things about amazon in the last few days. As much as I loved about amazon have been a prime member for five years ,but I had to cancel my membership today.

The FC I work at only 60 hrs but they gave out voluntary time off to those that wanted it and plenty of people took it. I want to visit some of these 80 hour ones to see how bad it is.

I was taking out my contacts when he made that joke

He's right it'll probably be on a truck...

You still rock! Sorry for the old slang.

Good thought, Jim. But you forget most American households live paycheck to paycheck, and they can't double the price of their goods by guilt donating.

Problems with spending money? Spend MORE MONEY!!

There is always those that are crazy enough to commit a horrible murderous crime. They could start commiting them against those that deserve it. That might raise awareness in the tiny non important group of people who are profiting on all this.

Nice

It's almost like there is no ethical consumption under capitalism

Bought a Xbox controller on Amazon a min ago and this is first in recommended

Jim Jefferies is like your old high school quarterback 20 years later, spending his afternoons drowning away his sorrows with Pabst Blue Ribbon & a sunburnt 50-something hussy with fake boobs and a wardrobe full of leopard print. And I love him for it. 😂

As an Amazon associate myself, I never experienced anything terrible at my sure. I even get dental and eye insurance when work part time and get even more benefits when I get my full time position. That being said, my site has flaws and we're always seeming to be using hand-me-down equipment. I'm still waiting for the fans they promised to upgrade when we unload trucks, because it can easily reach 120 degrees in the trailers if they've been sitting out in the sun long enough, and the fans we have now aren't enough. It's a shame to hear all this other crap, thought we were above this.

This is about the most coherent point made on this subject. We should really have a fund that people give to that automatically entitles Amazon employees to said funds. This would at a bare minimum make their jobs much more lucrative and give them more bargaining power but ultimately I'm not sure if boycotting things like Amazon is feasible. I try to buy off of ebay so some nobody operating out of their home gets a few bucks, but of course the item comes via Amazon anyway.

The Amazon site makes an excellent card catalog of things I want to buy - from places that AREN'T TRYING TO KILL THE WORLD'S ECONOMY.

i've never shopped at amazon, and have no plans to do so in the future.

This really sucks. I was shamed for ordering something from them. But I’m too poor to boycott everything. Bernie’s Sanders 2020! If I stop spending all the money I have on healthcare, I could afford to boycott things.

Its too profitable, too much demand. It wont go down, you could regulate it but if so that should be done with caution. As regulating it could mean higher prices, less profits and less sales.

Companies really haven't changed. Technology has brought news to more people and now we are much more aware of companies cutting cost at the expense of employees.

No rich man in history ever got rich by paying decent wages. That's just how it works.

Out of the 4 companies you mentioned none of them is a part of my daily life

My be we should make a humain rating for companies? The higher the score the higher it goes in the google research results. That way if you’re looking to buy socks, the time it will take you to scroll to the bottom and purchase them from amazon will be plenty enough for someone to go to the toilet.

I was fired from Apple because of my religion even though it didn't effect my work. They wrote it up that i was fired because of an altercation that happened between me and another employee. I had a voice recording that had my boss who thought i was on mute saying it was because of my religion and to lie on the report. They wouldn't allow me to use it as evidence in court because i didn't tell him i was recording. Apparently that's a rule in some states.

They treat contractors like criminals.

Damn...

That was depressing...

I say yes.

I've only ever placed two orders with Amazon for a total of $100. Never again

Amazon is only good for books. I try to get everything in person because the internet is quite unreliable.

so basically an indulgence lol

Note to any tech savvy people: How about creating a competitor for Amazon that gives all of it's products a human rights rating. This way a buyer has a choice and the sales figures will be high enough to affect manufacturer's bottom line. Better yet, write your congress-critter and ask them why the US doesn't already have a foreign policy that positively and consistently links trade to human rights. With 2020 primaries coming up, it's the best time to get the candidate's opinions on this issue, on record. This can even be a way to really affect big oil producing nations, in a way never before imagined: Without billion dollar missiles!