.@SenWarren (D-MA): “Have Amazon’s logistical operations improved, or have things just gotten worse …?
Courtenay Brown, Amazon Associate at NJ fulfillment center: “It’s definitely gotten worse … Amazon really doesn’t care very much … it’s all about speed and quantity.”
@SenWarren Amazon fulfillment center worker Courtenay Brown says employees are “terminated” when they attempt to prioritize quality over quantity:
“For Amazon, this only means they’re getting rich … Workers cannot do their jobs well because Amazon wants to make more money."
“We work until our bodies are basically, they're past the emergency stop button — we delay bathroom breaks, we miss lunch ... We would literally take like 30 seconds to cry it out for a little bit, and then get right back to it.”
— Amazon fulfillment worker Courtenay Brown
Fulfillment center worker Courtenay Brown answers Sen. Elizabeth Warren's question about racial/gender discrimination at Amazon:
"Amazon, they will hire any and everyone, that's true," but "they’d rather promote, usually, a white guy over someone that looks like me.”
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Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard says the FBI is now involved in the search for Jennifer and James Crumbley, parents of the Michigan school shooter.
Bombshell from former chief of staff Mark Meadows' new book: Trump tested positive for COVID three days before debate with Biden, well before it was disclosed. Meadows says Trump was symptomatic as well.
Now we know why Dr. Sean Conley was being so cagey...
Jury finds Travis McMichael, who shot and killed Ahmaud Arbery, guilty on all 9 counts, including malice murder.
Someone in the courtroom immediately cheers. Judge Timothy Walmsley requests their removal.
Summary of today's verdicts:
• Travis McMichael: Guilty on all 9 counts, including malice murder
• Greg McMichael: Guilty on 8 of 9 counts, excluding malice murder
• William "Roddy" Bryan: Guilty on 6 of 9 counts, including three counts of felony murder
Ahmaud Arbery's mother Wanda Cooper-Jones reacts to the guilty verdicts.
Waukesha, WI, Police Chief Daniel Thompson says SUV that drove through Christmas parade at 4:39PM "struck more than 20 individuals, some of the individuals were children."
Thompson adds that "there were some fatalities."
Waukesha, WI, Police Chief Daniel Thompson on SUV that drove through Christmas parade:
"We're no longer looking for a suspect vehicle. We do have a person of interest in custody at the moment."
“It’s unknown at this time whether the incident has any nexus to terrorism.”
— Waukesha, WI, Police Chief Daniel Thompson on SUV at Christmas parade
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) presses Biden’s pick for currency comptroller Saule Omarova about “you used to be a member of a group called The Young Communists.”
Omarova explains, because she was born in the Soviet Union, she was part of school youth programs mandated for students.