Panorama - Amazon.....

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Chap gets a job in a vast warehouse. Is surprised when he walks miles.

Chap gets an hour break in a 10 hour shift.

The bing bong electric noises irritate him.

Chap is late starting 3 times in a week then nleats because he is disciplined.

He has targets.

So what?

I thought that too. Boo fucking hoo, you have a manual job. Diddums. The pay and conditions seemed reasonable from the report. I've certainly done worse jobs.

The disciplinary points for having to go home sick were rather shocking.

I don't get the outrage either (as I've just pointed out on the concurrent thread!)

Didn't see the other one. I'm going there to scoff.

Was prepared to be shocked and horrified at the working conditions but...

Did laugh when i read it in the daily fail. Glad he doesnt work in the nhs as a porter or as a postman. I work in the nhs and we dont get any break if we busy. Thats life, its work and the patient comes first. He be walking more than 11 miles if he was a postman in wind, rain, snow and snow but a covered shed...

Sorry. Didn't see other one. I'll pop there.

Oh good. And here was me wondering if I should feel guilty for my Amazon addiction

Not not but....

What channel please?

Where's the other thread?

I get an hour break in a 12 hour shift. I probably walk a fair way too. So do lots of workers. What's so shocking?

wow.. i see alot of people lacking empthy.. or is that just to make yourself feel better?

by all means keep using them. you rarely can beat their prices.. but my god have empthy.

being talked to because you cant move quicker then 15 per between each beep.. yeah thats toatlly ok. getting points..aka warnings becasue your ill.. even with a doctors notes.. yeah ok.

I hear alarms as I drop off to sleep. Mine are the emergency ones that mean someone is in big trouble.

AND i rarely get a break in 13 hours.

I am confused by the whole programme tbh. Am I supposed to feel all shock horror sympathy that an ablebodied man has a job?

My empathy dried up when he was late 3 times in a week.

I get points when I'm sick too. It annoys me but then so do colleagues who skive at the drop of a hat.

wondering it's quite the opposite of a lack of empathy! Targets and intrusive attendance management are part of the vast majority of people's lives! I got pulled in by management to explain my sickness after I took time off for a miscarriage and ERPC. I've spent 12 hour shifts at night in the freezing cold and pouring rain getting grief and abuse. Nipping round a warehouse picking up boxes is not that bad a deal compared to what many people do every day. It's certainly not shocking or something that would put me off shopping with Amazon.

theres a massive differeance between saving lifes and picking someones shopping
some where you cant even talk to others..becasue you have 15 seconds to get to another part.
and whilst yes i am 100 percent sure that you work extreamly hard and hats of to you, i am sure you are not on you feet moving every single second of the day with out at least a 1 or 2 minutes break just to catch your breath.
with having other people around to keep you mentally sitmulated.

this shouldnt be a compertition of who has it worse ethier.

Saw a bit of it.

You know when you get a job like that you work on a conveyor belt...

Up to the company though to make work fun too (i.e. also by being a bit more flexible on the factory floor). worked in HRM

Thing is, so many people out of work, Amazon can demand what they want....

Personally, I prefer book depository online and try to support local bookshops desparate to keep their head above water in the internet age.....

God I'd love to not have to talk to people at work! Bet they wear iPods.

It isn't a competition of who has it worse. It's saying that manual labour is hard work by nature and loads and loads of people work like that. This is neither exceptional nor shocking.

I didn't see it - was he actually rushing constantly to get to the next parcel?

I couldn't manage constantly running or moving pretty fast to do it.

Dh and I watched it and thought the same thing.

Yes it is tough. But so are many, many other jobs.

Dh is a retail manager and regularly works 14 hour days with no or little break on his feet literally all day, dealing with extremely difficult customers (type of retail he works in) and no time to do sod all really. He only earns just above minimum wage.

I used to be a restaurant and bar manager working 12 hour days on my feet running about the venue all day. I had a 15 min break if I was lucky. My toenails used to go black from the constant walking. It was a huge venue.

It doesnt make this type of work right but amazon is in no way unique.

Dh and I watched it and thought the same thing.

Yes it is tough. But so are many, many other jobs.

Dh is a retail manager and regularly works 14 hour days with no or little break on his feet literally all day, dealing with extremely difficult customers (type of retail he works in) and no time to do sod all really. He only earns just above minimum wage.

I used to be a restaurant and bar manager working 12 hour days on my feet running about the venue all day. I had a 15 min break if I was lucky. My toenails used to go black from the constant walking. It was a huge venue.

It doesnt make this type of work right but amazon is in no way unique.