Thread by @apple_bonkers

disclaimer: I shop on amazon, have ever since. It's this horrible catch 22 (may be butchering the use of that) of the cheapest places to buy stuff are likely cheap as one of their 'efficiencies' is that worker experience

missed out the following:

'That leaderboard combined with daily reminders of 'no more than 30 seconds an item' just added to this palpable pressure to 'go go go.' I think the machine maybe even bleeped if you went over this time, again it was a haze.'

this time pressure made really ramped-up the dehumanising feeling. You don't even feel the time to acknowledge other people, let alone say hi. We're not talking having chats & taking the piss here, just basic soul-undestroying practices

a summary I'd use is working for argos you felt like a name whereas at amazon you felt like a number. Sure much bigger warehouses/sites in the latter play into that somewhat but no way near enough

(presumably the 'compulsory overtime day' was simply a loophole to get you over the legal amount of hours).
Anyway haven't described the actual why it was so bad from their side very well but let's just say if the bosses were allowed tazers I reckon they'd have used them

there was a more senior guy who was actually a decent guy, had 'lunch' with him once (basically a game of human hungry hungry hippos) and you could tell he was just following strict orders from above. Think he'd been there a while & fair play to him

there was an older guy I started with, would guess 50+ who disappeared a few days in, presumably moved to a sitting packing role or something, but that was incredibly inevitable after experiencing day 1.