Amazon workers working 55-hour weeks and so exhausted by targets they 'fall asleep standing up'

Ambulance crews called after workers collapse at work

>Amazon workers are so exhausted by long hours and relentless targets they are falling asleep on their feet, according to a new investigation. Employees reportedly had timed toilet breaks, a claim denied by the company. Some were made to do compulsory overtime, meaning they were working a 55-hour week ahead of the Christmas period. Pictures taken by an undercover reporter captured workers asleep standing up as they reportedly had to process a parcel every 30 seconds.

>Sunday Mirror reporter Alan Selby spent five weeks working at the online shop's warehouse in Essex and finished his last shift on Black Friday. A number of workers who could not cope with the relentless targets were attended to by ambulance crews after they collapsed on the job, the investigation found. The reporter was told to pack 120 items an hour, although that target is set to rise to 200 items. Workers are paid £8.20 an hour.

>One colleague told him: “Everybody suffers here. I pulled my hamstring but I just had to carry on. My friend spent two days off after she damaged her knee ligaments.” Amazon said in a statement: “Amazon provides a safe and positive workplace with competitive pay and benefits from day one. We are proud to have created thousands of permanent roles in our UK fulfilment centres in recent years.

>“We offer great jobs and a positive environment with opportunities for growth. As with most companies, we expect a certain level of performance. “Targets are based on previous performance achieved by our workers. Associates are evaluated over a long period of time as we know a variety of things could impact the ability to meet expectations in any given day or hour.”

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Whatever happened to muh automation?

Automated goyim

reminder that this faggot imports slave goods and sells them direct tax free and that is how he makes all his money.
selling slave goods.
he also owns washington post and works directly for the CIA.

When working for amazon results in more hospital visits than basic training for the US military, I believe we have a problem that needs addressed.

Boo-hoo-hoo

Complain about working a single day in your life and be replaced by robots.

Boo fucking hoo. I work for one of the largest UPS hubs in the country. Unloaders are expected to unload packages ranging from 1-150 pounds at 1280 packages an hour, while loaders are expected to load at sub 400 an hour. Amazon packages are notoriously light; if ANYONE can't handle 120 of these an hour they should fucking off themselves.

.t guy who is only in pretty decent shape

Fucking pussys im a chef and i work 60 hours a week 6 days a week have been doing it for years now.

Has nothing to do with lifting heavy objects, it has to do with the amount of miles they're being forced to run every day.

Whats the problem? If the conditions are so bad, just leave.

I worked at amazon for 2 years and it was easy as fuck. It was boring (repetitive) as fuck as well. Automation will replace a large amount of those jobs.

You have also gotten a BJ at least once.

Making the equivalent of about $686 a week. That's pretty good.

Amazon is gonna be broken up by Trump

Let me re-phrase this; boo fucking hoo. I walk 15 plus miles a day at my hub due to my duties. The fact still stands; they should off themselves.

They have to charge tax in my state; so I don't buy from them anymore.

Nothing that 800mg of oxycodone every six hours wound fix

yeah 55 hours is nothing.

Doesn't even compare. What do you do as a chef besides getting fatter and fatter every day as opossed to these fuckers lifting packages and remembering SKUs 24/7?

When amazon is the only company hiring in your area, what are you to do? Take out a loan with credit you don't have, to move to a place that you might possibly be able to get a job at?

The job market is extremely crowded in some areas, if you fucked up and didn't get a degree in something, you're left with the slim pickings.

Yea a majority of servers are sluts.i go for the ones who smoke and have tattoos.

>I have a shitty job and am too cucked to do anything about it so anyone who does try to do anything about their shitty job is a pussy who should just put their head down and get worked into the grave like me

No it isn't.

>55 hours a week

Wow it's fucking nothing.

>take out a loan with credit you don't have
>move to a place that you might possibly be able to get a job at
>if you fucked up and didn't get a degree in something, you're left with the slim picking

You answered your own question, friendo.

>what are you to do?
The obvious answer is more immigrants and H1Bs

Shit. I was pushing 170% at my processing job. These people are just lazy.

For menial labor, it sure is

>When amazon is the only company hiring in your area, what are you to do? Take out a loan with credit you don't have, to move to a place that you might possibly be able to get a job at?
Not to mention that you might have a family, own property, etc. which you can't leave behind easily.

Automation is coming, but for now unskilled labor can still compete with the robots if the unskilled labor accepts a really crappy wage.

Give it another five years and these people won't have an Amazon fulfillment job to complain about anymore.

My sysco trucks average 100 pcs 3 times a week i put them away my self, not to mention its a constant 110 degree on the line

Takin' the bait, but UPS is the best job I've ever had. I've gotten in pretty decent shape from lifting erryday and make more than a living wage.

Also 25k in free college from day one, so y'know.

Isn't that cute?

Obviously things are different. When Amazon has an epidemic of people having to be hospitalized at their facilities for exhaustion, there's factors that you're not considering.

Likely throwing everyone on swing shifts, compounded by demanding physical labor, and an environment where if you so much as sprain and ankle you will be fired.

Still no.

Ask an Amazon employee anything

Kek Amazon worker here. We're currently working during peak season so our shifts are either extended or we we have to come in on 2 extra days. They do these raffle/ scratch off things where you win prizes like echoes and Switches. 2 weeks from now we have to work for 12 hours every 6 days and get paid in overtime.

DUDE JUST GET ANOTHER JOB LMAO

>lifting things up
>moving them around
>putting them down again

>best job you ever had

I don't doubt it

Amazon is a fucking cake-walk. I worked there for two years and the 55 hour weeks are only during the holiday season. They bring in a shit ton of temps, usually a bunch of lazy niggers and spics. That's why they have timed bathroom breaks, because they constantly "have to use the restroom". Supervisors get tired of someone leaving their line every hour for thirty minutes so they can play with their cell in the bathroom.

Plus the company provides special holiday meals, give away prizes, and do all sorts of shit like once a week during the holiday season. It's a fucking easy ass job, you never lift anything more than 49 pounds and that's rarely anyway.

Shit dude, I drove a reach truck and trained people on the cherry picker. Shit was easy as fuck, make almost $16 walking around with a clipboard.

...then don't work for Amazon?
Like seriously, just start looking for a better job?
>make poor life choice
>cry about it

this guy is the biggest kike scumbag i've ever heard about

>55 hours
>hard
Pick one, I do real manual labor for 60-80 hours a week and these faggots are probably just not drinking water or taking care of their body. I have no sympathy for these wimps, it's time they act like men.

>we have to work for 12 hours every 6 days
:^)
55 hour week, 5 days here. We get Christmas day and New Year off. After peak is over I'm going to see if I can go on nights doing 60 hours tbqh.

What a sissies 55 hours... Shame.

He's a pure ancap. If you want to work for some stupid bleeding heart softie work for someone else.

Its this simple. You agree to work for your employer, but then complain after the fact because you didnt observe the working conditions are have them agree to proper treatment. Thats fucked logic right there.

>make $10/hr
>work inside all day
>only work 55 hours
>get overtime
>collapse
>complain about easy job
Why are brits such pussies

They're euro peasants weak breed

>Whatever happened to muh automation?
Psy-Op, to keep the sheeple in check

Ha fucking fags all of you I work 120 hours as a chef at Wendy's I pull 120K and all the bitches love me

>make almost $16 walking around with a clipboard.
My amazon nigger, may the friendship between Amazon's E-commerce and UPS' infrastructure be ever lasting.

.t UPS supe

I wish I could get compulsory overtime. Most of my friends are also struggling to get OT or work 2 jobs. I worked an 80 hour week and it was amazing, that weekend was the best sleep and relaxation I ever had.

Also reminder that your ancestors worked 130 hour weeks. Their only offtime was a few hours sleep and church on sunday.

>professional chef

Hows the alcoholism and drug addiction been treating you?

Those are just the temp workers, all nogs and spics . lazy as fuck and take 3 hour shits in the bathroom.

dont like it ?? quit. work at mc donalds all year. OH YEA MUH 9 MONTH VACATION

>complaining about 55 hours a week

cute

>If you want to work for some stupid bleeding heart softie work for someone else.
I don't work at all because i dont want to turn into a zombie wageslave like the poor suckers work for amazon. I'd work for a company that cares about their employees like google

>tfw work in a warehouse with a union
>order selector making $26 an hour with $6 production bonus on top of that
>can work as many hours as I want and always minimum 40 hours per week
>$500 a week goes to my pension
>they pay for my healthcare

Made 82k last year driving around a motorized pallet jack LOL

Yeah pretty much this. Niggers are lazy as fuck and usually don't stick around for too long.
The overtime is worth it. I'm only doing this job so I can get a car. Afterwards I need to start saving up my money, don't want to end up like my sister.

Amazon has been handing out chocolates to boost morale among the "over-worked" employees...that should help.

>shitskin
>work
cute

Kek i want to gas jews

>work 55 h /week, commute 20h/week, sleep for 56h/week, complain about lack of time management andshitty pay 37h/week.

If this paid like $20 an hour I would do it. Imagine how /fit/ you would be running 10 hours a day? Americans are just lazy fat fucks. This is why this is an issue.

tips to get your score up:
>receive several tickets at one time, then load/unload them
>log out of your scanner when you go to your breaks or lunch
>enjoy getting 120+% easily

Good been sober almost 4 months would of been longer but i relapsed one night after a busy night.ive got a good support system

They have UPS in Ireland too, faggot.

True, my manager came around with a box of cadbury's celebrations.

Yeah but I don't know why you'd want to leave a good job unless it was for a better job. If you can minimze your costs you will make a lot of money.

>Americans are just lazy fat fucks
this happened in the UK
Americans are way harder workers than europansies

>work at a hotel overnights
>$14 an hour
>sit at desk for 8 hours, help guests, play with phone all night

I should be thankful

You lazy shits. Fucking get to work. 55hrs boo hoo, thats at least 15hrs of overtime, I bet with UK near socialist benefit package you get more vacation and sick leave than anyone else in the English-speaking world. God I hate you shitty lazy millennials.

>be wageslave
>wake up at 7am, shower and eat quickly in zombified state
>commute to work in 45 mins if lucky, 1hr 15mins if not (unpaid time)
>work all day for a wage that has remained flat since 1978 despite company turning record profits almost every quarter for the past two decades consecutively
>commute home during rush hour, more time wasted and unpaid
>go to kids' soccer/football/baseball/basketball/track/hockey game/match/meet/practice
>by the time you're home and have eaten dinner you maybe have 30 mins - 1hr free time for yourself before you have to go to bed so you can wake up and do it all again tomorrow
>you have to do the same thing every week day for the rest of your life until you retire
>not only are you expected to be happy with this arrangement, you're expected to grovel on your knees and be thankful to your wageslave master for allowing you the opportunity to work most of your life away just to survive
>mfw

and i'm not even including complications that make this situation even more hellish, such as divorce (which is more likely to happen than not, in the US anyway)

Makes sense

>55 hour week
Amazon are like little babies.

Try 70hr weeks with the USPS.

stfu pussy. Working at all is a lot.

I played my fucking cards right. When I first got there I kept harassing everyone with any authority to train me in anything I could get trained in. After four months they got tired of hearing me ask for more responsibility and they trained me on every piece of equipment. I never fucking bitched and was one of the last people to clock out. Then I signed up for the "Safety Committee" and became a trainer for all the equipment. Also some weird half-hearted training with ion batteries. Basically they just needed me to come over and slap a sticker on a box. Then the dock and release for the trucks.

After eight months I never picked up another box. I was going to safety meetings, doing audits on hazmat, checking out the trucks, training people how to drive. Just fucking clipboarding it up.

What's your point?

haha you fucking faggot spending most of your life making more money for some guy so he can go to Bahamas again this winter.

Meanwhile I'm making thousands day trading crypto.

>not playing this game

feels pretty good

>shower at night
>go to bed 9:30pm
>wake up 5:30pm
>quick wash
>quick breakfast
>start work 6:30am
>home at 7:30pm
>eat dinner
>relax
>repeat
This is my current schedule, it's not so bad. It's better than sitting at a computer for 18 hours reading troll threads and feeling like shit as a NEET. Being a normie wagecuck is 10x better than not working.

>be British
>work 55hr week
>call ambulance

THE ABSOLUTE STATE

no wonder why Europe is crumbling

...

At a loss here, I do construction and regularly pull 60 hour weeks for weeks at a time. Sounds to me like europoors are just weak faggots.

Sounds like lazy niggers and women to me, I work at least 60 hrs a week year round.

Sup Forums isn't a socialist board. We're either neets or in the government

And then people keep ranting about robots replacing people in very near future. This can only happen if you have minimal wage and other workplace regulations.

We have IDs you know. Though it was obvious to anyone you've never actually worked.

imagine deluding yourself this hard , you're just a resource for some jew to extract profit out of you.

>whining about 55 hour weeks
Did 60+ when I was 18, 19 as a waiter or bartender. Lazy niggers.

Add walking roughly 10-15 miles daily. Also if you do anything for sysco beyond picking it up 2 feet from the floor where he left it to the shelf, you're doing the drivers job.

>soyboy keyboard monkeys are so physically inferior that typing on a computer drives them to collapse

Jesus Christ someone fetch me my rock.

>Working at 6:30 and not getting home until 7:30

Sounds like hell. I hope you're at least making six figures

who cares

And you can have fun with your colleagues, work is not all that bad.

If you don't like your job, then quit. Go and get a nice cushy job somewhere else with a union to enforce laziness, if that's what you want.

>wake up at 3:00pm
>leave at 5:30pm
>work starts out on 6:30pm
>leave at 5:00am

You coiners are cancer. It’s blatant how cancerous you are when you inevitably buy fiat to get goods and services.

Plus the $1.47 per package in shipping subsidies from the gov.

$1.47 X 600 Million packages a year = 882 Million

Amazon Profit Margin (in Millions) over last 4 quarters was 724+749+197+258 = 1928 Million

so roughly 45% of their profits is because of that shipping subsidies alone, not including any duty taxes on imported goods

Pretty much this. At UPS I started in unload and basically bounced place to place as a union worker until I knew the ins and outs of every area. Three years later I'de garnered enough respect from other workers and knowledge of pretty much anywhere in the hub to go supe and run my preferred area. This is a pretty big deal; as most supes become one before their 9 month mark in the company. So when the time comes to supervise they have barely an idea of the hub as a whole or the realistic time frame to complete tasks in. Also, union workers usually give them zero respect.

I still make it a point to unload my lines myself most days; the workout is nice and it still gets my heart going; plus it gives my guys a break as I'm not allowed to work at the same time as them since it is 'stealing union work'.

You work 60-80 hours and you want us to be impressed? Get a desk job Javier. I work 40 hours a week making 85k a year all holidays off paid and two weeks over Christmas off paid.

All the while buying property to retire on up in Wyoming. I'll get to have a cozy 20 years of retirement while you struggle every morning to get out of bed at 55.

I knew someone who worked at Amazon corporate, apparently the place is a collection of sociopaths, willing to stomp on your neck to climb up one rung of the corporate latter.

>Whatever happened to muh automation?
Machines dont suffer. THEIR MUST BE SUFFERING.