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Friday, September 20
“Modern Slavery”: Amazon Employee Complains Inhumane Treatment at Company Warehouse
A Amazon worker quit her job at the warehouse , because the company allegedly forced her to stand and lift heavy boxes all day without taking a break.
The former Amazon employee from Connecticut claimed that even when she was tired she was not allowed to sit, resulting in an injury that left his leg bruised while he worked.
“It was modern slavery” The 22 year old told The Sun newspaper.
“They put a lot of pressure on you to work fast and yell at you if you sit down.
“ I was lifting a heavy box and I was tired. The box fell on my leg and hurt my right shin. ”
The former employee said they would check her leg, but they never wanted it She went to HR because “they didn’t want to deal with that responsibility.”
In addition to being reported if she sat down, she got into serious trouble, if the management saw him take out his cell phone.
“If they report you six times, they fire you,” he said. “It was a joke, it was already reported four times when I left.”
The employee, who parted ways with Amazon in August 2021, said the company would create contests within the warehouse to see who I could work faster and reward those workers with reward points.
“They said: ‘Let’s see who can go faster in the next hour ‘and they reward that person with a free bottle of water and items like that. ”
the first time a complains about competitive job “games” to speed up production .
Another former Amazon warehouse worker revealed the “game” that the company proposes to employees to speed up production, creating a “prison-like” environment.
The games were based on meeting the warehouse’s achievements and workers were rewarded with points to redeem prizes like Amazon T-shirts, according to a TikTok video from the former employee.
In a different video on the account, the worker said that employees got power-ups like “boost” that could be used when “you are one-on-one (one-on-one) with your co-workers. work. ”
Momentum was earned by“ playing games ”and points were earned by scanning items in the warehouse.
The TikToker admitted that the games were exciting at first, because he had to work shifts of 12 hours and the competition “made the days go by quickly.” Some of the different achievements include: logging into FC Games for 100 days, using a boost 10 times, start 10 times fast and choose a million units.