Amazon's Leaked Anti-Union Training Video Is Terrifying 

Dude gets divorced his wife gets 40 billion, and he's still the richest man in the world. There's absolutely no excuse for treating his workers like garbage.

DUDE my uncle works at Amazon and they wrote him up when he called off time to go to my grandmothers funeral. They are about to fire him cause his mom died at an inconvenient time.

*Amazon* Tell us about yourself Sean. *Sean:* "My back hurts"

I don’t understand the idea of “too convenient to stop using Amazon”. Not using Amazon is not that radical of an idea. Easiest solution= boycott Amazon.

"Associates", not employees. Because employees get benefits.

Sounds like a Vault tech video meant only for an overseer. It's so emotionless and void of basic social awareness.

These workers need to wear body cameras and release any inhumanity.

Bro I worked at Walmart distribution. One day I came into work and at our startup meeting they said “James *********** ( a worker ) had to be careflighted after an accident at the warehouse last night and ended up passing away this morning. He was a great guy, always made you laugh. He will be missed...... ALRIGHT GUYS WE CANT LET THIS RUIN OUR NIGHT. ITS GONNA BE A LONG NIGHT TONIGHT SO WE NEED TO PULL TOGETHER AS A TEAM TO GET IT DONE. be safe.”

Hey Ethan, I use to work at Amazon, The Truth is they raised the wage to 15.00 an hour but took away stocks and monthly bonuses its actually less money!!!!

The hidden message here is since their hobbies are inside the warehouse, they never leave... ever.

Ethan: You're fired in six months you're accruing too many benefits 🅱️eff 🅱️ezos: WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN

Remember when amazon had an army of twitter bots pretending to be amazon workers sharing their love for the company and how good they’re treated

"Hi - we are normal people - this dystopian future is normal. Don't ask questions"

God I hated working there. Ambulance was parked outside everyday cause somebody was dropping. I used to walk 17 miles a night

Amazon came in and is building this HUGE packaging center near my house. They came in and told the city they would employ thousands of people, and then after they got closer to finishing it, they said "oh well actually we put in mostly automated tech so we will only be hiring a couple hundred instead".

When he said “Alexa call the police” my Alexa went off and started dialing my heart dropped

On the subject of his Ex-wife: She also owns enough shares in Amazon to give her a voting seat on the board post divorce. Best divorce ever....

I worked at a delivery company partnered with Amazon for like 3 days, but I had to quit once I found out that I was required to download an app on my personal smartphone that not only tracks my driving, but tracks how many times I pick up my phone throughout the day AND has access to how many times I send text messages. NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH Amazon, fuck that noise. I also heard a horror story from someone who used to do security there that 80 workers were told they were getting a pizza party, but were instead separated into groups of 20 and the security team had to escort them out because they were actually getting fired. Honestly, Amazon should just use robots if they're going to treat people like robots.

1:31 "Look, I'm a normal human being with a normal life. Amazon allows me to go outside sometimes to enjoy my hobbies."

When my son was in the hospital mind you I'm a single dad they fired me for missing 5 days in a row to be with my 2 year old son 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ and i made one of the best quotas and never missed a day before hand

My mom had her arm broken when she was packaging at Amazon. They tried to keep her from getting workman’s comp by not giving her the paperwork. She sued them and settled for $14000.

I don’t mind waiting *a week* just to know people are not being treated like slaves. I am dead serious.

If you earned $9000 every hour of every day since the birth of Christ you still wouldn’t be worth as much as Jeff bezos

I worked at a warehouse as a 17 year old, I made $20 per hour and had as many toilet breaks etc as I wanted, and the business had a yearly revenue of about $4m. If they can do it right, surely Amazon can too.

Amazon worker: I think we should get paid more Jeff: DO I SMELL WORKERS RIGHTS?!

South Park did an amazing job exposing Jeff Bezos

Amazon: "Look, guys. We increased pay. We're good guys now!" Also Amazon: *takes away stocks and monthly bonuses for employees*

the anti union video walmart makes you watch in training literally says you’ll get fired if you join a union, you should talk about them in a podcast

The baby is holding hila hostage

“Don’t worry he’s fake” Just like the “happiness” of the workers on the job there

"this is straight communism" no it's not Ethan. its capitalism

Jeff bezos is looking more and more like a villain as time proceeds

Feel bad for whoever leaked the anti union video. Because they DEFINITELY know who it was.

Stolen joke from the John Oliver warehouse video comment section: "Jeff Bezos got divorced because he realized marriage is a union." I'm honest. Edit:Thank you for the most liked comment I’ve ever had on RU-vid!

Me: I want to eat. Amazon: You're fired.

Angie: My friends call me Lil Angie vroom vroom! Her friend: Nobody calls u that Angie..

Look up the Joliet Illinois Amazon warehouse employee that died on the job because Amazon (employees at the warehouse) delayed EMS workers from reaching the man.

“They could be lobotomizing workers and I’d still use amazon, it’s just too convenient.” Ethan, I believe that’s what they mean but “customer obsession”

Got fired for even talking about a union I’m no longer hirable with Amazon

The CIA states: “Simple sabotage requires no destructive tools whatsoever and produces physical damage. It is based on universal opportunities to make faulty decisions, to adopt a non-cooperative attitude, and to induce others to follow suit.” - Think I know where I’m applying this cool new strategy next.

I bet Amazon Alexas are actually made of human flesh and the souls of people who left Amazon lol

All the big retailers have anti-union propaganda videos, treating their workers like human beings scares them.

"What's with all the sets?" Because they never leave. You can see the misery in their eyes as they fake their smiles.

Sean actually died from exhaustion and cardiac arrest shortly after filming the video. Rip Sean never forget

Bruh whoever leaked this is gonna have a bounty on their head personally set by big Jeffy

They raised their pay, but they also cut a lot of benefits and bonuses too. Edit: This is actually a two-pronged issue that needs to be tackled simultaneously. People deserve a living wage, but we also deserve strong unions to act on workers' behalf so they can't be fired for talking about a "living wage" or have benefits taken away. Especially large corporations like Amazon (which are essentially monopolies at this point)

I worked in an amazon warehouse. i was a picker, essentially just go find the items in the stock, put them in a bin and send it on a conveyer over to packing... Sounds easy but i wound up walking 15-18 miles over the course of my 10 hour shift. After a month of the job my calves turned purple/red. I was in phenomenal shape too. I was lean and fit, that job was the most grueling i've ever had in my entire life. I would go in at sundown and come out at sun up. The productivity quotas are very real. They would send a lady to come talk to you if you were ever off task on your shift and ask you what you were doing on the time where you weren't scanning items. There's quicker ways to do the job (bringing multiple bins on your cart) but if you try to do them the bosses will tell you you're doing something wrong. This job was absolute shit. avoid it all costs

A few hundred years ago France had a similar problem with their Elites treating them like shit. And the Elites really did not fair well. Thinking your above the consequences of your actions is an extremely risky game to play, in any age and any time.

“They could unionize, but they won’t... because of the implication...”

I worked at Amazon for a year and got fired for my “productivity” and Amazon is exactly the way Ethan explains. Amazon also has something called “time off task” so if you have to use the bathroom a manager will approach you at some point and ask what you were doing and why you weren’t working in that 5-10 min time frame. The productivity rate at my warehouse was 425 items an hour consistently for 10 hours!!! If you can’t keep up they write you up and after 3 writes you’re fired. No joke Amazon really does treat their employees like they’re just waiting to substitute in robots. Working for Amazon is completely fucked!

This reminds me of when I worked at FedEx during my time in college. They literally tell us unions are bad and that it better to not have them. They also preach safety , but at the end of the day they only cared about numbers. I ended up injuring my back and I went to a chiropractor. So I had a note saying I shouldn't be lifting heavy. After two weeks I got another note saying to continue my restrictions. And one of my managers starting going off on me. Asking me if the doctor was a family member and if I was just bull shitting. Later that week my other manager sent me home saying they couldn't accommodate my injury and not to come back until I was better, so I just quit. One year later my back is still jacked up. These kind of jobs don't care about you at all. And if you don't work like a machine, they just fire you and move onto the next person.

“Right to work”, aka “get right to work bud!” regardless of the pay

They raised the minimum wage, but cut benefits, overtime, and stock options to do so.

I died laughing when Ethan said "What's your favorite hobby if is not packaging boxes you're fired!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Also amazon has a 600 million dollar contract with the US government to access Their databases. Noice

When I worked at Amazon, they would periodically hire and fire groups of people in droves. I was only there for a year and always scared I was next. One day I just didn’t show up. They were probably going to fire me soon anyway.

They only raised the minimum wage bc they cut benefits

Prime drivers also get ridiculous quotas that promote unsafe driving. The whole shit is honestly a terribly unsustainable business model that cuts corners to maximize profits and good press.

Welcome to life in just about every large corporation.

There's a secret side to Jeff bezos that we can only imagine and he is 100 % responsible

“Unions”? Just call them “Surprise Teamwork” it’s 2019, words can mean anything

I worked at an Amazon warehouse. It was the worst job of my life, and I grew up working on tobacco farms. I'd rather be unemployed and homeless.

Actually, Bozo isn't the richest man who's ever lived. That distinction goes to King Mansa Mussa I, who is estimated to have been worth $400B!

"Unions are not in the best interests of our associates" I literally died.

I stopped using Amazon almost 2 years ago and I'm doing just fine. If you do want to stop supporting their business, it's not as hard to avoid them as people think

EVERY company I've worked for in retail has these same videos, we're told to avoid them and report them, its sickening

Anti union videos like this have literally been around for decades. My dad has one on VHS from a grocery store, from the 80’s.

Divorce makes money, milk him for everything like he does to his workers.

Customers are partly to blame for this. If amazon announced they would be improving work conditions in exchange for removing thier one day shipping, people would throw a hissy fit. Bezo's greed is matched only by the laziness and entitlement of its consumers

I haven't bought anything off Amazon since 2014. Real easy to do actually.

The second video is straight up 1984

My mom broke her leg and my dad had to work two jobs and while working at Amazon he worked for 8 hours one day and they marked his hours as only 3 wtf.

Say what you want about them but this is why unions exist. We can't rely on mega corporations to play by the rules. We need protection!

"They are walking 15 to 20 miles per day" They better be activating adventure-Sync on Pokemon GO.

When he said “Alexa call the police “ She tucking called

I worked as a driver for a little over 2 months before I was suspended. We started at 8am. During the holiday season the warehouse was a fuckin disaster, there is little organization, the Amazon employees work completely separately from drivers on staging programs. During holiday season we were there 12+ hours. The job was the easiest job ever. But the leadership made the job stressful and there was zero structure. I got suspended because I was finishing up at the delivery station at like 11pm at night one night and another driver was pestering me. I got upset with him and with a choice set of words told him to leave me alone. He tried telling on me and it went nowhere. After I left he went in and told Amazon I sped in the parking lot. Which was false. A day later I was suspended and it went on for 4 weeks while "investigating" before I just moved on. They have poor structure and leadership within their warehouses. And they have no idea what logistics is.

As a former amazon employee that IS NOT how the warehouse is it’s literally hell there

One of the richest companies..and they use royalty free music to justify their bad PR. geez

I think a union is actually closer to being "communism", Ethan. the anti-union video is more tyrannic than communist.

My broke ass, even after watching this video, just applied to this job… what am I doing with my life lmao

When the richest man alive low key runs a monopoly

ethan said "Alexa, Call The Police" AND MY ALEXA STARTED CALLING THE MF POLICE i panicked and stopped that shit real quick

When I worked at FedEx, they didnt give you breaks and worked you so hard, no A/C, and it's so hard to find time to use the restroom. And if you do, you get so far behind and it makes it not even worth the stress. Then they would cut your hours, and it wasnt even worth waking up in the middle of the night to work for 4 hours like🤦🏻‍♀️

This is late, but one of my close friends just got fired from Amazon because of too much 'downtime' while working. He was what they call a 'donut' which basically meant his job was to go around and fill in on jobs all over the warehouse, but like Ethan pointed out many of these locations are over 15 minutes apart, so they counted up the time he spent rushing over to each job across the entire facility and said that he spent too much time not working. And on those grounds they gave him 3 strikes and fired him. Incidentally about a year after he started(like Ethan mentioned).

Anyone else remember when Amazon was just an online book shop?

Everybody keeps complaining about Amazon, but nobody stops giving them money

I work at a small Fed-Ex. Basically a warehouse but not really because packages aren't stored long term, the 6,000-12,000 packages a morning we get are put on routed trucks almost immediately. Honestly the management is kind and respectful, my main manager is pretty great at being understanding. But the people above them, and above them, and above them, all the way up to whoever is actually directly pocketing the money from the company is a different story. They have crazy high standards they enforce bosses to enforce bosses to enforce and so on all the way down to the package handler. Most of the time we meet those standards and honestly there's never any scolding if we don't. I don't remember the excact number because I deal with the large packages (my managers are easy to work with, you say you don't like throwing in a truck or scanning and they try to give you what is best for you, which increases productivity overall) but here's an example. (Keep in mind I don't know the number by heart, I am comming up with a relatively close but random number) You're and another thrower are supposed to throw at a rate of 1,125 packages an hour. Now say you keep that pace but your scanner has to stop your belt because they can't keep up with your speed. Then when the scanner is keeping up, the guys in the sort tower are stopping the over all belt because they can't keep up. Then the people loading the small delivery trucks are stopping the belt because they are getting flooded and need to catch up. When the truck is over your manager comes up and asks you why it took you so long to throw the truck (even though you were the quickest part of this whole cluster fuck process).

“Well you’re on camera so you better hug that package if you wanna keep your job...”

Walmart does the same type of video, they will even fire you for saying the word union

I just realized the boxes have smiles on them because that is the only time any of the workers will see one all day.

13:57 this is the exact opposite of communism

Tell us about yourself Sean (Had Sean been honest or had he been an actual employee). Sean "I don't actually work for Amazon, I'm just a paid actor who's telling you to vote against your best interests! :O!" Camera cuts off.

The “humanisation” of businesses is only another effort to make sales

“The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.” ― George Orwell, 1984

Ethan: "Lol this is like communism lol" *Umm, no this is literally the most perfect example of capitalistic behavior imaginable.*

“What are we doing here?” The same question I ask every time I end up on the H3 podcast.

Can't hike on the weekend when you work 60 hours every week

Dude you almost made my Alexa call the police...

I've done 2 plumbing jobs at an Amazon fulfillment center. Both times it was because a disgruntled employee vandalized the restrooms. Both times i had to go someone intentionally clogged all the toilets paper towels. Like 30 paper towels in each toilet. Thats not a good sign of what the culture is like there.

My cousins worked at amazon and they said theyd get “rewards” for going over their quotas. Theyd try to push them to work extra hard for only a little more pay so they both did the minimum quota cause why bother to do even more when the benefit isnt great. They also fired one of them because they didn’t properly file for leave even though they didnt tell him he needed to file paper work for it. Even though he notified the manager in person. They also worked night shift and were nocturnal