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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/mar/11/amazon-delivery-drivers-bathroom-breaks-unions
Or just google "Amazon drivers toilet breaks". Like i said in a previous post, this is all widespread and well documented. It's disgraceful to be honest
This is happening globally as well, not just Amazon drivers in UK.
Bezos is possibly the richest person in the world. Why does he pay his employees so badly? He's got more money than he can ever need.
If a full stop represents a million dollars, his net worth is over 200,000 full stops. Page upon page of them. About 10,000 double Lottery rollovers. He can afford to let people stop for a wee.
Then these drivers unionise and Amazon sack them. No win situation really.
But Amazon are already working on a better solution for these drivers. They're just slowly replacing them with drones and robots.
Its fair you ask what the solution is but frankly I'd leave that for Amazon to answer. That's their job. The question at our level is whether we should be contributing to that or avoid it like the plague. I personally would rather do my bit and not add to that demand.
I am sure other delivery drivers have the same problem, PF, Yodel etc, I think Amazon get talked about a lot mopre though, usually also refering to how rich the guy who owns it is.
There is a factory up the road from where you live, they work for minimum wage, forced overtime to actually make a little money and are probably treated badly, but you have no idea who owns it, you have no idea how rich the owner actually is, you never see or hear much about it.
How many petrol stations, not the ones along motorways, major roads, or have other services like serving food, have bathrooms nowadays? None of the ones local to me do,and as far as public toilets go, there are none around me, and I don't just mean in the village that I live in, but also in all the surrounding towns and villages, in fact the closest we have where I live to a public toilet is the toilets at Tesco, ASDA, M&S, and such.
And if you're right, the drivers need longer breaks.
You can't seriously be saying people shouldn't be allowed appropriate toilet breaks?
I like using Prime Video for The Office US. I usually watch an episode or two a day and to me it's like spending a bit of time with friends. I find it relaxes me and takes the edge off the day. To have all 189 episodes at the touch of a button is awesome.
No complaints from me, although I agree the adverts are a step backwards.
I also understand that not every driver has this problem, some do actually have public toilets on their route. I also understand traffic and parking might be an issue in built up areas, so , there are many aspects to this problem but not many solutions, it matters not how rich the owner of amazon is, he cant suddenly make a toilet appear every time one of his drivers needs to pee.
Giving them time for breaks would effectively cost a bit of money. Amazon has metric fucktonnes of money. So not letting drivers have sensible breaks is a deliberate decision that money is more important than the drivers' wellbeing.
Why bring Bezos' wealth into this? Because if he footed the difference himself it'd barely be statistical mouse compared to the personal fortune he's made from the company. The two aren't unrelated.
I'm required to use AWS (Amazon Web Services) as part of my work, so that's my only interaction with them.
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I am not defending Amazon, but lets get it right.
And why are we all of a sudden shining light on Amazon? A large proportion of employers in the UK treat their workers like shit.