Thread by @AgathoniaMedia

#Capitalism/#Work: "Timed to go to the toilet. Told off for leaning. Monitored for each package completed. As a #worker at #Amazon, I often feel that we aren’t being treated as people."

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

"We are treated worse than the #robots doing automated tasks in the warehouses. If the robots have an issue, the company pays for them to be serviced, whereas if we drop below certain targets multiple times, we can be fired – we have to sort it out or get out"

"Everyone who I work with at the warehouse in Coventry is frustrated.... The shifts are hard work, spent all on our feet, walking miles back and forth through large warehouses. All of that for just £10.50 an hour. That’s why about 400 workers at our warehouse are striking today."

"If you take too long to find a #toilet in the huge warehouse, managers will ask you for account for this time – using #doublespeak to describe it as being 'idle'."

https://twitter.com/AgathoniaMedia/status/1630159580922630145?s=20

"At the start of 2021, Amazon could have given every one of its workers across the world a £43,000 bonus out of the increase in profits, and Bezos would still have had more money than pre-pandemic."