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The injury rate at Amazon fulfillment centers is double that of other warehouses. We accessed rare video footage from inside one of the most dangerous Amazon warehouses in the US, and spoke to former employees, to understand the true cost of Amazon's push for speed.
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@johnbergquist2376 Год назад

Yeah I don't think that $60,000 fine is gonna slow amazon down that much

@kishascape Год назад

Destroy their warehouses and break up the company. Stop ruining nature with this brain dead yuppie desire to fill every empty space with junk for a false sense of “progress”

@dwarfbard Год назад

It sounds like 6 cent fine (if even that) for a regular employee. Edit: made the calculations. 60000 fine is 0.00028 % of theor that years income. That isn't even something to write up as an expense.

@jhonklan3794 Год назад

Because they are doing nothing wrong.

@leftyrighty7682 Год назад

As a current Amazon worker, i can say that Amazon is super unsafe. They expect us to have rates of about 250-300 packages an hour & if you aren’t going fast they tell you that you need to pick it up. Amazon does NOT implement stretching or anything kind of physical therapy. I make 16$ an hour and i come home beaten to death. it’s not worth it but i have no other employment and must manage for the time being.

@littledudefromacrossthestr5755 Год назад

Feel u bro

@ToothlesstheNightFury510 Год назад

As a package handler for fedex ground who likes it most of the time, I get confused on the whole you have to load this many an hour, on my van line we just load whatever is designated to our trucks, if I have 3 trucks, I grab the boxes that scan to my trucks, scan em and load them. Easy as pie some days but obviously when there’s more it’s harder but my managers never tell me to hurry up. I’m not sure about your managers but mine were handlers before and know how fucked up shit can get they deal with it too and help us out when we get backed up.

@IMAPOTATOZ Год назад

Also an amazon worker. Your FC punishes all and not those in the bottom 5%?

@hyphydan Год назад

@@ToothlesstheNightFury510 At my Amazon DSP they stopped tracking individual employee stow rates, but the Manager was still pressured to meet a certain rate for the entire shift and would constantly watch the computer and tell us to focus on "Jiffys" and work faster to get the rate up. Turnover is so high and so is absenteeism , so the Managers push fewer employees to do more. They don't care because they just do another hiring event and bring in another 20 bodies off the street

@ChangoWango13 Год назад

Oh wow I work at a Walmart distribution center and we are expected to throw 450 cases an hour. Very tough to keep up!

@YaoiMastah Год назад

A large Dutch webshop has this policy that every new hire will work on every department for a couple of days. Regardless if you were hired as a the new CFO or an engineer, you will be doing orderpicking, you will be doing deliveries, etc. You'd be amazed how efficient their deliveries have become, when you have engineers sitting in orderpicking thinking how this is not the most efficient way to stuff a box, or a CFO sitting in a truck staring at the back of a traffic jam for hours.

@bartman729 Год назад

amazon has the same policy -

@Arch3r666 Год назад

that isn't adhered to

@hannahtheriault6913 Год назад

Whats the website?

@YaoiMastah Год назад

@@hannahtheriault6913 Coolblue

@starcar23 Год назад

Talking at The New York Times DealBook Culmination on Wednesday, Jassy said a monthslong cost-cutting survey uncovered the economy was "more unsure" than recently suspected, which provoked the organization to heighten its endeavors to get control over costs. "They were seeing things that were not the same as what we've seen previously, and we just felt like we expected to smooth out our expenses.

@tywbin Год назад

Figuring out your monetary necessities and chalking out an arrangement stays the shrewd method for planning for the unforeseen. 11yrs in financial planning space and very satisfied with the choice I made. The uplifting news is - it's not past the point of no return, I'll recommend you find a tutor or somebody with experience guide you particularly in this downturn.

@susanpitt4742 Год назад

I think part of the problem is consumer expectation of things like 1 day shipping. Would it kill anybody if it was 3 days instead. We can't rely on employers to do the right thing .... but we can change OUR behaviour. (Note - this does not mean that I don't recognise that Amazon are exploiting people who need an income.)

@fuzzytop4746 Год назад

It doesn’t matter it’s all about volume per day your math doesn’t add up

@petrichor259 Год назад

@@julm7744 I hope it affects people like you

@brummaha Год назад

I totally agree that we as consumers also change a bit.

@supermodelatlanta1354 Год назад

If they didn't offer 1day, I wouldn't care about 3day

@wildlifesuport Год назад

ALL OF THE PROBLEM IS BECAUSE OF CONSUMERS!!

@MutherFIFA Год назад

Amazon using the phrase “anecdotes” to describe these stories is so revolting and demeaning. As if they’re small, one off, insignificant people/histories.

@jackcarraway4707 Год назад

I worked at a warehouse when it first opened and was there for four years. I can only speak for myself, but everything mellowed out after the first two years as more warehouses opened up and the spotlight was no longer on the one I worked at. Did not receive a single injury and wasn't written up for anything. What I did was change departments as frequently as possible while avoiding the ones with the worst reputation, keep my mouth shut, never be late back to my station and stay busy. I saved my paid time off for emergencies and the end of the year before it resets. I think everything depends on the site and your manager.

@IMAPOTATOZ Год назад

Agreed. Seems some FC are super strict and other just care about the bottom 5% of performers.

@Thyme0365 Год назад

This ain't just Amazon either, I worked at an AutoZone Distribution Center for about a year and it was demanding as hell to keep up with production rate when you have to pick 800 pieces for one store. That includes rotars, brake pads, rags, ramps, starters, windshield wipers, etc. And you could pick for 15 stores a day or more, depending on how many parts they need. Some of that stuff is really light, like air fresheners, if you get lucky you get inbound, taking stuff off of the trucks and on the shelves, my best friend did that and all she did is spark plugs, tshirts, gloves, etc. On my end, outbound, I was lifting heavy stuff like batteries and oil boxes onto pallets, some stacked taller than my 6ft self. It wasn't so bad at first, until the constant overtime came because night shift didn't move as fast as day shifts did. So we started working 5-6 days a week, 10 hours or more. Instead of out usual 4 days at a max of 10 hours per day. Our turnover rate was huge.

@anonymoushuman8443 Год назад

Currently watching this on my 10 minute break at Amazon

@josephcoatofmanycolors Год назад

LOL how ironic.

@karawithgun8148 Год назад

My fellow associate lol stay strong. My break is also over as well lmao.

@itsyaboinoel668 Год назад

Same bro

@narcisstoic Год назад

Don't forget to stretch bro

@jimwatkins1664 Год назад

Amazon might not have been aware of this from the beginning, but they certainly are now. It will be interesting to see whether they make a serious effort to do something about it without being forced to. I think that corporations should be held to moral standards in the same way people are.

@mr.joshua6818 Год назад

Especially if they can make political contributions as if they were individuals.

@ASMRGRATITUDE Год назад

Please don't think they are naive enough to not realize this would be a problem. Repetitive motion strain is common in any warehouse anywhere. There's just a big difference on how Amazon treats their workers compared to how a normal foreman treats their workers. And just to give you a little background information of how well Amazon is aware of this from the very beginning. They do stretching tutorials during training videos.

@Adam-cp1dl Год назад

They will not change anything people are expendable to them and besides it is not profitable to change.

@alrighty6898 Год назад

Bezos knew the risk he was putting his employees through but money is more important to him.

@rawdata678 Год назад

No government can hold such giant lobbying Power accountable. Corporations Will run the world. I Hope in history repeating, with people regaining access to means of Power, or we Will became slaves to an AI designed to keep the 1% in power

@staceyrubio1860 Год назад

I worked for Amazon for almost two years at a Distribution Center. I ended up getting a herniated back disc and now have a permanent disability.

@jessitrd4718 Год назад

Just putting my 2 cents out there. I was also a water spider and i walked so much. These buildings are huge!!!! I pulled pallets for 11 hours a day 5 days a week during what the call peak season. Its hell I remember i always had pain/soreness on my upper right shoulder. I have recovered likely do to me being young so my body can take some abuse still. Also to deal with the pain and stress i would smoke weed on my break bc i was that tired everyday i worked. I have been hired and i have left many times over a span of 3 years. All i can say is if you want "easy" money go after it. But expect alot of fatigue and stress.

@roseyroams5400 Год назад

You should try building houses bahahaha

@Rocksteady_cod Год назад

How was that paycheck though doing all that overtime?

@IMAPOTATOZ Год назад

@@Rocksteady_cod Clearing over 1k post taxes after 60 hours a week.

@mushroomhehe370 Год назад

@@Rocksteady_cod I work 50 hrs a week (mandatory), I get 700 after taxes

@stelleldir Год назад

This issue also occurs in culinary jobs, they give you manual handling courses but you don´t have time to work safely when you are trying to catch up with service.

@4uanC Год назад

I don't get why they don't rotate workers more so that these types of repetitive injuries are lessened.

@primal9238 Год назад

Because they don't view workers as humans but rather temporary assets. First off, they don't want long term employees. They prefer people to work for a year or two and then be replaced by someone else. This helps them cut down on costs from things such as benefits or pay raises. The employees are simply tools. They aren't tools they want to keep for years. They get as much as possible out of the tool and then replace it with a new one. However they don't have to buy the tool, they lease them. Them pushing workers harder only brings them more profits. This is true as long as there's more employees to take their place. The only way Amazon will stop these practices is if legislation prevents it or if there's enough public backlash that creates more unionization, strikes, and boycotts of Amazon. I have no hope on legislation happening, the United States is run by corporate interests. Educating more people on the horrible working conditions on Amazon is the most realistic way in my opinion. When they can't replace their workers it gives the current workers more leverage to demand better working conditions.

@Jake_576 Год назад

@@primal9238 bingo

@supermodelatlanta1354 Год назад

Volume. We're will they find workers

@trader2137 Год назад

@@primal9238 not true at all, i worked in amazon's warehouse (Doncaster, UK) and they invest alot in the new workers hoping they will work forever there, they have a big hierarchy, so the more you learn the higher you are, i was taught to be a PIT driver, also i could do some inbound and some outbound, so each shift there was a board that showed your assignment and there were rotations on daily basis, one day i was driving PITs, next one i was putting stuff into shelves, in less busy times they would teach us new things... overall it was a great experience, people who hate it probably never worked a single hour in their lives and just look at the world through pink glasses, i can tell you, in every other company where you do physical work the conditions are way worse (i worked in 9 warehouses in UK), also the pay was significantly higher in Amazon, night shifts were paid +20%, my shift was 4 days x10 hours, however if you did a great job they allowed you to work overtime, 5th day being paid +50%, 6th +100% (usually in holiday periods)

@littledudefromacrossthestr5755 Год назад

@@primal9238 truer words; never spoken

@yourmother9246 Год назад

Working in a factory is brutal let alone working in one's of those warehouses. I remember working in my local towns factories making head lights and tail lights for GM and feminine hygiene products for Proctor and Gamble, just to name a couple. It was super repetitive, with wicked long hours, working 2 weeks of 12 hour days, and then switching to 2 weeks of 12 hour nights. Messed me up for years but I'd never work for Amazon or even remotely recommend it to anyone after seeing this. Thanks for posting! 📫 😳

@IMAPOTATOZ Год назад

Its not for everyone. Its easy money doing the same thing over and over again, but it does take a toll on you.

@joshi897 Год назад

I can vouch for this as an employee in the pack department at an Amazon fulfilment center. That injury risk chart at 4:15 looks pretty damn accurate. I'm lucky I started when my building opened, because the other departments are so strenuous that nobody wants to work in most of them, so my department doesn't do nearly as much hiring because of internal transfers from other departments. My job is still rough if you have to work a bunch of overtime, but I've heard horror stories about the other departments, so I'm cool with where I'm at until I finish my degree. The injury issue is certainly exasperated by people not doing proper movements or lifts, but ultimately the rates and hours are putting employees in a situation where it's bound to happen. Even in pack, when I did overtime over the holidays last year, my back was starting to hurt as Mark described in the video. I can't imagine the other departments.

@R32R38 Год назад

I worked at a robotics FC from 2019-2021 (I'm now in a much smaller Amazon food warehouse), in many different roles, and would say that Pick is physically the hardest, followed in order by Stow, the docks, AFE Pack, and Singles Pack.

@grandroofing1604 Год назад

I have been a roofer for over 30 years. We finally have people working again, and here you are tearing it down. Here you are crying about work. What about Roofers, Steel workers, offshore workers, Firefighters, Police Officers, and other Hard Jobs. You don’t deserve anything. Pathetic.

@joshi897 Год назад

@@grandroofing1604 What's pathetic is that you think things can't still be an issue just because of other issues being worse lmao. What a concrete, low IQ way of thinking. Maybe all those things aren't entirely comparable to Amazon because of their ability to unionize? You seem like the type to force their kids to finish their plates because of the starving kids in Africa. 30 years in roofing but you still need to grow up lmao.

@amitpradhan7712 Год назад

I worked with Amazon UK for a year and half as a part-timer and I have personally experienced what Mark went through. The back pain, shoulder pains, nerve jolts in both hands when you lift heavy items is constant.

@ShayanGivehchian Год назад

That's the same with most manual labor jobs.

@trader2137 Год назад

and you got paid for it, so thats the trade...

@Dutcheh Год назад

@@trader2137 4x more likely at amazon then comparable industries. That’s an issue. We know injuries will happen, but they should be happening 4 fold

@trader2137 Год назад

@@Dutcheh actually 2 times, google it, i think the problem with amazon is that they are hiring everybody, including those with disabilities and those unfit to work physically for the tasks given (ie. women or extremely tall/short/fat people), those are way more likely to get injuries, and you see the effects of "equality" policy

@Dutcheh Год назад

@@trader2137 sorry i meant to refer directly to this DC. This dc is 4x. 2x for the national average is still a big problem. As someone who works for amazon as a subcontractor driving. I can tell that they don’t have disabled people running boxes. They manage drive lanes and outflows of vehicles. Everyone is fit for the job, the requirements are being able to lift 50 lbs. UPS, Fedex, they are all hiring the same types of people. For this warehouse to have 4x the average and 2x for the national average there must be a systemic issue of safety at amazon. Being a driver, I see how frequently blatant safety issues occur and are encouraged. So i wouldn’t be surprised if Amazon does the same for its actual workers.

@PatrickXVRC Год назад

3:30 "to meets specific rates" Yes amazon does do that to you, I was a packer, boxing the item and if you are the lowest 5% bottom of the group you will get 3 warnings and 4th was let go, Of course the old people went first than the ones that work at a normal rate. Leaving it to those young 20 years old making it feel like high school again with the drama increasing

@R32R38 Год назад

At my FC it was the bottom 3%, though other ones may be different. The good news is that if you stay out of the bottom 3%/5% you won't be affected even if you don't meet rate goals.

@rawdata678 Год назад

Wait, no fixed goals? Its relative to other's performance? It makes squid game (Is It that the name?) look like a fun time!

@IMAPOTATOZ Год назад

@@rawdata678 It varies from building to building. Mine is related to performance rather than rate. The rate is expected at 350/hour. But most pull 250/hour. Youll get in trouble if you go under 200/hour though, as thats roughly the bottom 5%.

@pif5023 Год назад

As long as we use psychology to “increase worker productivity” through “motivation” these won’t change any time soon. This is another export from Silicon Valley, this is why software dev eventually burn out (and are paid that much) in tech. It is expected for them to.

@mushroomhehe370 Год назад

as a packer (I'm trained in everything in the pack department) and occasional ship dock waterspider I had no idea pulling cages was so dangerous. I struggle to pull the ones with 150+ pounds of items in them but I had no idea I've been slowly hurting myself during the process

@xtreme242 Год назад

I broke my wrist pulling a cart. Not at Amazon but yes thats why they tell you not to pull

@cottoncandylover4653 Год назад

Whats funny is that Amazon ads come up as I watch this video.

@zebrasonice4102 Год назад

I worked at Amazon for about half a year during the pandemic, and I can relate to the hassle employees undergo. Took a long time for the pain in my wrist and shoulder to go away and to feel normal again.

@CrimsonAlchemist Год назад

U have never been to Asia? People lift boxes and luggages that weigh alot more than the ones in these videos daily every minute. Get a new job if you cant handle it Lazy workers

@bella_testastretta Год назад

should've studied harder in school huh

@IMAPOTATOZ Год назад

@@bella_testastretta Some of us are going to school for free while working for Amazon.

@bella_testastretta Год назад

@@IMAPOTATOZ that's great! see amazon isn't all too terrible as people make it out to be.

@Kn1feShift Год назад

@@bella_testastretta Even people in college need jobs.

@GlamorousTitanic21 Год назад

As a historian, Amazon increasingly reminds me of the megacorporations like Standard Oil and Carnegie Steel; companies that were so big and so dominant in their respective industries that they answered to no one, not even the government.

@eric-is2ix Год назад

As someone who has never seen a football field: "Damn, 1,030 of those seems like a lot"

@Cowstick Год назад

This is an important topic. I used to work for a aircraft ground handling company. My main job there was the on/off loading of cargo/luggage. I ended got a Spinal disc herniation, which took me 3 years to recover from.

@thomasbobinski4127 Год назад

As a hardscaper working 6 days a weeks and long hours this made me chuckle. "Ohhh my back hurts moving these boxes 3 feet" How about you come build a 60 foot retaining wall with me for a day in 90 degree heat with no breaks. That'll change your mind

@user-tu8sz9cz5r 2 месяца назад

Fr they over weight child's that's why

@Jordakynett Год назад

I used to own a moving business and I understand now how these people actually feel my body is never going to be the same

@ChunkyManeTheFrenchie Год назад

I worked at a HealthSource chiro office for 3 years and 1/4 of our patients were from Amazon. Furthermore what’s not mentioned here, is the struggles the Amazon employees had to get these workers comp claims approved. The patient and the office had to jump through hoops to prove these people were seriously injured and in pain.

@thechosenfew5977 Год назад

Cough walmart on the same bs cough

@Wall9K Год назад

What can be done for the body, if I may ask?

@ChunkyManeTheFrenchie Год назад

@@Wall9K physical therapy is key my friend! Stay healthy! Be preventative!

@thechosenfew5977 Год назад

@@ChunkyManeTheFrenchie chiro helps too, i have 2 degenerative discs and wow what a journey. Im 30

@trader2137 Год назад

its because 90% of the work force there was amazon lol

@demonatemu Год назад

amazon's solution: replace everyone with robots eventually

@FinancialShinanigan Год назад

No wonder Amazon is investing so heavily on robots

@nerd26373 Год назад

Seems like Amazon is becoming more expansive as the years go by. Every business move accounts for any consequences they may possibly face in the bear future.

@OS10100 Год назад

Don't work in a job that is physically demanding if you can't handle it or are in poor shape. People in construction, warehouse, loading/unloading (from trailers, movers, baggage at the airport etc) have been subjected to the same thing for as long as those jobs have existed. No one is forcing these workers to do a job they can't handle. It's like applying for a job as a high rise window cleaner but you are scared of heights and need more safety initiatives. I just want to stand on the top of the building and let me control a robot that does the actual work. lol. If you know the risks of the job and are willing to take them. Don't complain about it after you get injured. You signed up for it and kept working there. That's on you. I'd quit the first day or week if I noticed that this isn't for me or my well being.

@dallasryder8125 Год назад

😂 I need this “expert” to review us in the military working.

@smuggreycat8137 Год назад

😂

@NexStudios1 Год назад

right?? or review all the migrant farm workers, some probably working for a quarter of what these guys are getting paid 😂😂😂

@R32R38 Год назад

Rumor at least has it that FedEx Ground is the worst of the major warehouse/shipping companies to work at while UPS is the best. Amazon is somewhere in the middle.

@jamestroyer7024 Год назад

This is why the future is automation!

@beentea Год назад

I agree but some things are pretty difficult to automate. They have the money but not enough minds to get it running. The future is free or extremely affordable education and worker’s rights. Automation would naturally come after.

@fuzzytop4746 Год назад

This all can be easily automated Amazon is doing really well

@firepack89 Год назад

The death of capitalism

@jamestroyer7024 Год назад

@@firepack89 and the rise of technocracy

@Boss-674 Год назад

The best things to automate are jobs that are too dangerous for humans

@ericlowe8138 Год назад

I worked at a warehouse where during the pandemic we couldn't do "team- lift" boxes. If it was over the limit, you had to pick up the box by yourself. This happened because oh the "6ft" rule. During covid you would get in trouble if you tried helping someone with a heavy box.

@elchivorusso Год назад

I worked there No issue

@josephalcantara4827 Год назад

As a former employee of Amazon at a delivery station they on some BS about not having certain quotas or rates or certain things you have to reach they be on your ass when even for you to go to the bathroom saying why have you been stationary 15 minutes or why haven't you scan this and this and this for 15 minutes they are playing y'all they always have quotas we just don't get it cut the production cost or production rate because if we did we would be making a lot more money and every time a supervisor asked me to step up the timesheet and everything that I'd be like well we're not getting paid for the production quota I'll take my time he walked away and shut up

@goblinslayer4535 Год назад

The more they complain the faster the robots will replace them. The customer is all that matters to Amazon facts.

@fuzzytop4746 Год назад

That is what capitalism is based upon “the customer” which is you

@stankythecat6735 Год назад

Who cares about these people , they don’t have an education . They don’t add anything to the economy out side this task . The should be happy to have any job

@anonymoushuman8443 Год назад

You mean the customer’s money

@adharshs3004 Год назад

No, they Will replace it regardless.

@skip6485 Год назад

@@anonymoushuman8443 The customer’s money is the customer.

@cinemaipswich4636 Год назад

"At Arm's Length" was a credo of H&S rules for the past 70 years. If you squat, then reach out, then the you know proper limits. Keeping your back straight was prime. Now all those old lessons are ignored for profit. Material Handling is an industry that still exists.

@brothersofbear2074 Год назад

Bet these Amazon people couldn't last 4 hours on a construction site

@gayfield56 Год назад

Construction workers are compensated fairly for the damage. 😐

@benjaminbouaoune4466 Год назад

In France where we have universal healthcare, the gouvernement punished amazon and doubled their mendatory contribution to state healthcare (the tax that goes toward gvt healthcare, wich is huge) , as a result of one warehouse having to many work related injuries...

@JustGromski Год назад

My dad had an foot injury right as he was leaving work because of a finicky gate. It was caught on camera and they dismissed it. He was limping for months constantly in pain. He couldn’t afford to even Quit so had to push through for a while before he could finally quit.

@mattwhaley1865 Год назад

Should've sued them

@DanK-pt3vq Год назад

Jeff will use this as a reason to push towards robotic replacements for all fulfilment processes. Robots will not get repetitive strain injuries or need breaks.

@user-vw6mu8gt6c Год назад

Isn’t that great? I wish all these workers can be replaced by robot so they don’t need to work on these injuring jobs.

@smuggreycat8137 Год назад

Absolutely. Then they will complain about that!

@IMAPOTATOZ Год назад

Jeff isnt CEO anymore.

@hyphydan Год назад

You'd think so, but you'd be shocked by how low tech delivery stations are. They are running out of people to hire, (huge turnover rate and they use e-verify), if they start to use more robots it wont be because of cost.

@RYN988 Год назад

I have to admit, I love prime shipping. Getting things super fast is just fantastic but I don't think I've ever considered the true cost of such speed. Amazon needs to do more, way more to ensure their workers aren't being harmed for our speedy deliveries. From now on, It's standard shipping for me.

@thedopplereffect00 Год назад

This is why big companies like Amazon support government health care, so they don't have to pay for worker injuries.

@quarti94 Год назад

Amazon took everything from me, then fired me, even if i was one of the fastest in my role, just because (as they tell you to do) two times i signaled knees discomfort and asked to being assigned to another role those two times. Glad it happened, because my knees actually were on fire every single day, and now, after a year, they are starting to don't hurt that much as before. I often cried for the pain even after months since they fired me.

@angelagardener1234 Год назад

Take disciplinary action if you are able to don't stay in pain and plus. Plus loss of Income that is straight up Discrimination. Wherever you are in the world may be different. I wish you all the best.

@HobbyOrganist Год назад

Terrible, but like that lady in this video with the little boy who was having back problems etc- you can see she has a butt, stomach and waist sticking out big time, and she looks like she could easily lose 40 pounds of fat which would definitely have helped, that excess weight is what causes back, knee and other joint problems just by itself! Someone cant take a job like that being 40 pounds overweight and then complain just the movements are causing the pain!

@Kevin-is-here Год назад

@@HobbyOrganist right, it’s called work for a reason

@kimbrolyy Год назад

@@HobbyOrganist but work is causing the pain. It has been proven to. Being overweight doesn't help but that's not the cause of it

@transientconduit Год назад

I have a bulging disc in lumbar spine thanks to working for Amazon, thanks for exposing this.

@trader2137 Год назад

it means youre unfit for physical work, in other companies the same would have happened to you...

@TT-ik3kd Год назад

Wow so you’re saying manual labor can be hard on your body? I need to tell all my buddies right now! They do construction so I imagine its not as hard as this, moving boxes. Best thing to do at this point is complain as much as possible, we shouldnt have to work to make money!

@annunakian8054 Год назад

I'm a prime member but I only order next day if it's an emergency. Def appreciate Amazon employees. 🙏

@Dom-xi8je Год назад

Well this all starts with their investors and shareholders who need to squeeze every single cent out the operation but also the customers who now expect packages to be delivered in a certain timeframe. Hard to reset an expectation when the company has no incentive and our culture is self centered generally.

@fuzzytop4746 Год назад

Eventually they just gonna remove all those jobs and fully automate it then workers will cry again

@shashankgowda7597 Год назад

I think you should visit Amazon facilities in India this is nothing compared to Indian Amazon facility You will be under tremendous pressure to work fast

@christopherfranke567 Год назад

It seems at least nationally that the US understands how poor working conditions are at Amazon warehouses. Most people do not think it is fair for humans to be treated this way but continue to shop with Amazon. I hope people who can afford it will begin to take their dollars elsewhere.

@TheJwebb7 Год назад

Great awareness to bring some change....we should also factor in how the American Obesity epidemic and sedentary lifestyle increases the rate of injury.

@jz3serge Год назад

This is a hit piece all of you will still hit one day delivery

@seangdraws Год назад

Hang in there guys. Help is coming. Robots are taking over soon

@karawithgun8148 Год назад

Please tell the robot to bash my brains in when it gets here. Thank you.

@fredytexis1 Год назад

Image the rate from construction workers? Must be crazy I used to work at a big hub for FedEx would always see injuries like this.

@trader2137 Год назад

its normal in physical jobs, every single job has a chance to inflict an injury

@Dutcheh Год назад

@@trader2137 4x more likely at that amazon. it’s a problem not to be brushed off with “it is what it is”

@nomore-constipation Год назад

She loves her prime one day shipping. But the only comment shown is her saying people have to move really fast? I'm sorry, I worked at UPS and it's no different imo and no matter how fast or how much I want a "thing' I don't need it on the backs a health of ordinary people. I had those crap jobs when I was younger and we used to have pride in our hard work. But at the end of the day (or life in this case) did my bravado help my future or just paint a good story on it. 100% if I had to do it again I would have avoided doing that job. I feel like this injury isn't rocket science. Of course repetitive motions we're going to hurt you. It's amazing how little the industry has changed, especially with how much simple things could be with basic technology. The vacuum mover is great but I'm sure they will need ear plugs. How about just making a weight system for packages. As you offload the trolly or kart raises height. Seriously... This is just stupid corporate America

@rawdata678 Год назад

And we glorify this Dangerous bullshit. People, mothers, get hurt and exploited to deliver some fancy bullshit a day earlier. Capitalism kills

@deirdrewren3676 Год назад

I work for Amazon and have travel to many sites for work. Some sites are way better than others. Some sites are very big about safety and proper lifting techniques and also buying robots and the tools to make jobs easier, where I noticed the older sites tend to have more of this mentality mentioned in the video. It’s important to keep in mind that this is not true about Amazon, across-the-board it varies from site to site.

@HobbyOrganist Год назад

If people complain enough and enough negative things happen, Amazon won't be improving worker conditions, they'll simply be replacing more workers with robototic and automatic machines, it's been already happening and the warehouse could come down to a skeleton crew on computers running a multitude of mostly automatic robot and automatic computer controlled machiens that do the sorting, picking, packing and loading.

@lou2408 Год назад

Society has created a need for now, no one wants to wait a week to get what they ordered the night before. Companies like Amazon are profiting off of this need for quick gratification and the workers are paying the price with their bodies. It is impossible to work quick and safely, one will always be forgotten and it's almost always saftey.

@creatorofgods1668 Год назад

Amazon workers still have it 10x better than Korean workers that perform the same work. These korean workers even show up to work 2-4 hours before their shift to sort and load their delivery trucks without pay.

@jean-lucblanc4605 Год назад

This is very sad. I really think that we won't mind if we have to wait 1 or 2 extra days if that means the workers are properly treated

@ayeshaclassesgk Год назад

Business insider❤️Thanks for the content when you post it brings joy to my face 😄put so much effort and work into what you do

@thehangmansdaughter1120 Год назад

I don't understand the need for such speed. Who cares if it takes 18 hours rather than 2? I'm not going to die if I have to wait a day to get my order. Maybe this is because I live in NZ, where we expect companies to treat their staff well, and are willing to wait a couple of days? Either way, people just need to learn some patience, having something now is not worth harming workers.

@azerko Год назад

Although I don't disagree with the risks involved in warehouse operations, especially repetitive ones, the focus should not rely exclusively on Amazon. The only thing that really solve most of the risks are robots.

@Paul-th9vr 4 месяца назад

I am 73 years old and I worked for 10 years for Coca Cola in ways that required at times extremely difficult and heavy lifting and pulling pallets that weighed 2200 pounds. I loved the physical strain ❤it put on my body and it hurt my body in different places also for too many years. Then one day I decided to get physically fit by exercising religiously almost every day after work. The result were amazing, within a couple of months I had no more pain, and I lost weight, built up my muscles in the areas that my work put the most strain on. I don’t wish to delegitimize these people’s pain, but I pulled 2,200 pound pallets on a slightly uphill grade and I learned how to do it properly, without injuring my back, which did happen at first but you learn how to pull the weight without hurting your back. Being physically fit in a job that demands a lot of physical effort is just common sense, and accidents can happen to anyone but less likely if you have conditioned your body to take the strain on it seriously through exercise and more exercise.

@O6i Год назад

i have to admit sometime the boxes are way heavier than you expect and that can hurt you too. i ordered a glass/metal monitor stand off amazon once and it came in a small box. when i bent down to pick it up it was way heavier than i expected and through my back out lol. i have a back back from a work injury but its rare i do that kind og damage to it. and all i can think was wow how many backs did this box hurt on its way to me.

@superstroy5463 Год назад

Super video 😊

@jarlaxle3588 Год назад

As someone who used to work in a factory, I know how it can screw your spine up. I used to be a glass dropper in a Window Factory and would regularly lift pieces of glass up to 200 lb as well as very large and bulky frames that were hard to handle. I worked in aluminum so most of our windows were made for like hotel chains and large businesses and they were very large

@exactinmidget92 Год назад

I been an Amazon driver for 5 years now and i will never mess with warehouse. those people always look miserable.

@tanyabreakerthigh7297 Год назад

An Amazon ad played before this video started! 😅 I thought I had clicked the wrong video for a sec.

@Sebstian208 Год назад

I worked at an Amazon warehouse. You weren’t allowed to sit down to rest. You’d be yelled at until you stood back up. What kind of backwards physical expectation is that? Go to any gym class and no teacher will say “keep going and never stop”

@bokikoy3442 Год назад

Compared to working conditions here this kind of work is no sweat And oh we are paid $1 an hr

@soniccandy5935 Год назад

Good journalism….But I’d be interested in seeing how Nike’s sweatshops operate

@PyroKnowItAll Год назад

All I hear is people complaining about a manual labor job. Try construction or being a farmer. Heck when working at a farm feed store or lumber yard you'll load a lot too. Cry me a river

@oldtwinsna8347 Год назад

Agreed. This is so ridiculous. Try driving a truck 12 hours a day, with asshat drivers all over the road, and being thousands of miles away from home all the time. At least these fools can go home after their shift.

@cjezinne Год назад

Dont worry, Robots are coming. This should cut down injuries

@blahblahblah8914 Год назад

Thank goodness someone exposed th3 working conditions of amazon!!!!

@fisharefriends598 Год назад

Manual labour is extremely tough, these are average people which haven’t done manual labour before. Repetitive strain can happen in any job

@SapphireX413 Год назад

Wish they'd pick up the pace on my orders. Ordered a week ago, said they'd be shipped by Amazon, still haven't even shipped yet

@dahat1992 Год назад

6:45 BRO CLEAR THOSE NOTIFICATIONS

@dollardog3711 Год назад

This work method is quite similar to what mine workers went through in apartheid South Africa, physically worked until they broke and then disposed of.

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@whatinthesam Год назад

Is the background music from dwarf fortress?

@Lunchtimehistory Год назад

“She could trip” bruh I could trip at any moment

@GMSqueaky91 Год назад

I think the combination of slower paces for humans and more robots will really help. They are a massive company, and yeah, robots are expensive, but not as expensive as these people's medical bills.

@oldtwinsna8347 Год назад

These wishes for more robots is as they say, be careful what you wish for. Eventually, robotics will take over 90% of the function and very few human laborers will be needed at all. Jobs eliminated for a sector of the population that have few other alternative low skilled options. It will be like the late 80s closing of factory workers era all over again.

@weasle5022 Год назад

2 complaints from 750,000 workers? That's pretty good actually

@blahblahblah8914 Год назад

Does amazon have still production rate requirements now???

@imwhoamike Год назад

Better go to college as soon as you graduate and study hard to get scholarships

@gouachepottwo7537 10 месяцев назад

As soon as mike stuck his arms out I immediately noticed his elbows seem hyper extended. This means that he could have eds which also mean if he does have it good chance he'll heal slower and continue to have issues with his joints for the rest of his life. Poor dude - an heds haver

@MK-bm8yn Год назад

I worked in a warehouse before standing at a conveyer belt lifting window of all sizes for 8 hours killer man got out of there quick.

@carterwheeler7910 Год назад

love so much

@creatorofgods1668 Год назад

You would be surprised on the amount of workers that do not stretch prior to initiating such high intensity work.

@claricetat1578 Год назад

Any chance of providing employees with a back support brace?

@robertpalmer3166 Год назад

Amazon will suggest that they order one from Amazon.

@saibadam Год назад

Company was fined 60k😂😂😂. Its like me being fined 60 cents

@BaconHer0 Год назад

It's often ordinary people that subsidise big corporations - whether it's through tax cuts, bail outs, grants or the health of its workers

@thewaybecomeimmortal1785 Год назад

Please make a Video on Bamboo silk

@ledwysdelgado7304 Год назад

Will, they can raise the one-day delivery that way volume can go down a bit, and they will still make a profit.

@oldtwinsna8347 Год назад

Yes, I recommend a six month delivery window. Non-negotiable.

@karawithgun8148 Год назад

@@oldtwinsna8347 lol you live in your own weird little black and white world where everything has to be done in extreme absolutes. According to you it's either break an employees back to get your precious one day delivery or else the evil union workers will change it to six months delivery. No in between. You are literally incapable of comprehending things like a compromise where they change one day delivery to three days. In your mind that can't happen because it has to be one extreme or the other. You're incapable of understanding anything else and it makes me feel sorry for you, honestly.

@melo1057 Год назад

The flex hour is the worst part bc you thought it was a 8hr day but it turns into a 10 hr one

@mazeratifox7208 Год назад

As an employee for ups as a package Handler shit is just as bad over here. Unsafe conditions fast pace that isn't safe for ppl. It catches up to everyone..employees don't matter it's all about the numbers.

@mushroomhehe370 Год назад

yes it's my responsibility to stretch every once in a while and turn the machine off when I'm fixing it but MANAGERS SHOULD ALSO LET US DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT AFTER LUNCH SO WE'RE NOT DOING REPETITIVE MOVEMENTS FOR 10 HOURS