While online shoppers are grabbing deals on Amazon Prime Day, the company’s warehouse workers are more likely to get injured, according to the findings of a U.S. Senate investigation.
The committee on health, education, labor and pensions found Amazon’s warehouses are especially dangerous during Prime Day and the holiday season.
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No shit? You mean when you increase your employee's workload in a strenuous job by 50% or more, they take more shortcuts and get hurt? Wow.
I saw the same thing at the warehouse I worked at during the Holiday season from the beginning of October through mid January. I'd go from loading 16 trucks a day to 24. We had to work until all the orders were shipped, so we went from working a 10-11 hour day to 12-14 hours, looking forward to our days off only to find them cancelled due to the increased work load.
Not only were people getting hurt, but people were faking back injuries just to get a fucking break.
At least the worker can brag he got a Prime hernia
ReplyDeleteSenators investigation the obvious while ignoring anything that's important to the voters, nothing new there
ReplyDeleteJD
I remember a Lineman saying he got home from working storm damage and immediatly had a stiff drink so when the phone rang, and it did, he could say no to a callout because he had been drinking.
ReplyDeleteWhen I lived in Atlanta, the distribution center near where I lived had a 140% yearly turnover rate for the picker's and driver's.
ReplyDeleteYeah, at least half of "business consulting" is asking the grunts what's actually going on, and telling the boss that. And charging $200K+ for the service.
ReplyDeleteMy uncle worked at a power plant in SD. Owner decreed that it run at 110% capacity "so he could get his money's worth!" and that caused ALL SORTS of problems, as you can imagine. Opacity readings on the stack off the scale because of all the unburned coal flying out, excess wear on equipment, overloads, shortened maintenance cycles, etc.
So he hired an analyst to find out why he wasn't making money. Dude spent a week asking around, and prepared a report basically saying "You need to run it at around 86% design capacity for maximum return on investment." which any grunt on the floor could have told him. But at least he listened and scaled back.
Being stubborn is expensive.
John G
Our office was shocked to hear that injuries always increased during a shipyard stay...
ReplyDeleteWhy was there a Senate investigation? If the federal government has to get involved it should be OSHA checking it out.
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