It's so obvious that the point is the cruelty and control and demoralization, because it is ABSOLUTELY not the most efficient way to work.

Amazon leaves money on the table because it wants to be cruel. Every business does, essentially.

When I saw this earlier I made this:

Yes Amazon, like most multi-billion dollar corporations, hates you. They hate their customers, they hate their workers, they hate government standing in their way, they hate the planet.

So many years without civil war between oligarchs and their slaves (normal human beings) is beyond me

With all sincerity: We should use Eminent Domain to take majority control in stock in every publicly traded company.

Why settle for taxing these assholes when we could seize their assets and run the shit ourselves?

Stop supporting this fucking company and burn down their warehouses.

This reddit-originated post is being reposted every so often, and every time I remind people that firing pregnant women is a criminal offence in most European countries and no sane oppressor entrepreneur would do it.

I lived in the US for three years. This is the first time I heard that women get two weeks off for delivery and offices have milking rooms.

Not a company issue, but a country issue. Shithole country = shithole societal norms

Antihuman

At the end of the day it’s just people managing people, right? Surprised that low level managers haven’t drawn a line. Really speaks to the lack of solidarity and the lack of job security.

And they wonder why the fertility rate is going down...

Anazon polices their warehouse force with ruthlessly designed computer programs. It doesn't matter why you fell behind, they fire them by computer.

It's not like the government is going to stop them.

I don't use Amazon, and I never have

Everyone using them is complicit.

People are so willing to cast others aside for their own convenience and justify it by saying "other people are doing it too"

We workers are alone on the fight against these capitalist ghouls—no judge, politician, or any other 'leader' is gonna come to save us. And there's nothing we can do to win the fight. But there's one thing we can stop doing—giving them our labour. That's the only leverage we got. Striking, quitting, not applying for those jobs.. yes, I know many people aren't in a position where that's an option, I myself have worked delivering for Amazon (and it's not even in my top 5 worst jobs), but if you can't afford to quit a shitty job at an Amazon warehouse you can't afford to be having a baby, either.

pregnancy-related hospitalization

How much does anyone want to bet that this was for going to the hospital to give birth?

Bezos should have write a billion dollar check to every plaintiff.

This is why I cancelled my Amazon and routinely avoid buying from them.

I know this is an over simplification, but wouldn't being unemployed be better than working for Amazon? They're so over-the-top cruel to their employees, between piss bottles, tornado deaths, and now this?

I heard a while back there was a leaked internal memo Amazon was worried they might run out of workers since turnover is so high.

I guess some people dont mind/can tolerate those brutal conditions, so why would Amazon care to improve things?

Absolutely brutal.