Ex-Amazon worker: They treat the people like robots here

In one story in The Verge, Amazon lawyers confirmed the automated system tracks every second of a worker s day. When too much time has been spent off task, warnings are auto-generated. If a worker receives six warnings within a 12-month period, the employee receives an automatically generated termination notice. Amazon says that supervisors are able to override the automatic firings.

The job crushed my spirit and crippled my body. I would spent nearly 12 hours a day with with no one to talk to for more than five minutes. I wasn t sleeping well. I was getting cranky with family. My knees were killing me. My back and shoulders constantly hurt. My left hip throbbed. After every shift, I d ice my swollen ankles, which were triple the normal size.

via nypost.com

This sounds really bad actually. There’s going to be more and more of this. RTWT.