After lying about the fact that some of the workers are under so much pressure that Amazon is being forced to drop themselves off in bottles to meet their quotas said it was a pity in his own very strange way and admits that drivers do. It immediately pointed the finger at other companies like UPS and Uber and said executives at those businesses do the same.
In a news article posted late Friday before Easter, Amazon apologized to Democratic Wisconsin Representative Mark Pocan, with whom he fought, in a bonkers Twitter explosion last week over the issue of bottling in bottles. Pocan commented on another haphazard, aggressive response from Amazon’s retail chief Dave Clark, who fought with Senator Bernie Sanders because he was not progressive enough.
“If you pay $ 15 an hour to workers, you do not make it a ‘progressive workplace’ if you form a trade union and make workers drink in water bottles, ‘ Pocan tweeted it at that point.
And then, despite the fact that there is enough evidence that employees of the company are unhappily placed in situations that make them splash in bottles, Amazon exploded and decide to lie. (If you were wondering, a Recode report states that the company’s aggressive communication moves followed CEO Jeff Bezos expressed his dissatisfaction that Amazon officials did not push back hard enough against ‘inaccurate’ or ‘misleading’ criticism).
‘You do not really believe the thing of fluffing in bottles, do you? If that were true, no one would work for us. The truth is that we have more than a million amazing employees around the world who are proud of what they do, and from the first day have good wages and health care, ” the Amazon News account said. tweeted back by Pocan. “We hope you can implement policies that can offer other employers what we are already doing.”
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The reaction of the e-commerce giant has surprised the internet and does not earn many fans. After sitting on it for a few days, Amazon apparently determined that it was not the best moment of the venture.
In the news article, Amazon said that its tweet in response to Pocan was “wrong” and did not consider its large driver population, but focused only on employees in its fulfillment centers. The company also added that the tweet was not ‘properly investigated’, and that it did not meet the accuracy standards.
Both points can be discussed. It must be said that employees at fulfillment centers does not have it easy to also go to bathroom. Employees at the fulfillment centers have reported that they regularly keep their pee so as not to spend ‘time off’, which according to some workers could lead to disciplinary action and even termination, per motherboard.
Amazon denies this, however, saying that employees can go to the bathroom at any time. Since some employees claim that they do not even get meal of rest breaks because of the amount of work the company uploads on them, it’s hard to believe.
This is where Amazon acknowledges the problem its drivers face on the road forcing them to bottle up, but does not acknowledge its role in this at all, but rather attributes it to traffic, rural routes and the pandemic. Yet there was nothing in the company’s statement about the workload it places on its drivers – according to motherboard, drivers regularly deliver it 300 packages per day on a ten-hour shift—And the consequences they face, including disciplinary action and termination, if they do not meet their productivity quotas.
‘[W]”I know that drivers can find problems due to traffic or sometimes rural routes, and this was especially the case during Covid when many public toilets were closed,” Amazon wrote. “This has been a long-standing issue in the industry and is not specific to Amazon.”
The company added that although it was an industry-wide problem, he wanted to solve it but did not yet know how to do it.
As if denying any responsibility is not enough, Amazon then points the finger at other companies, such as Uber and UPS, whose executives apparently also relieved themselves in bottles or other containers. It contains links to nine links to stories from other news outlets, and even the Pew Charitable Trust, about Uber, UPS and other companies, and contains a handful of tweets from people who are sympathetic to the situation.
Honestly, this is just not a fancy move from Amazon here. These companies are currently in the spotlight due to a tweet war they started (who knows what the future holds). And if that’s an excuse, it does not make much sense to start saying, ‘Well, other businesses do,’ instead of accepting your mistakes. However, this does not mean that these companies do not deserve investigation.
But the biggest failure of Amazon’s strange excuse was probably the people who did not apologize: its workers being forced to discharge themselves in bottles, and honestly any other thing that is not a proper toilet. These are the people who deprive themselves of food and water while driving to Amazon to prevent them from going to the bathroom, these are the people who are forced to fluff and poop under extreme conditions, these are people who accept that they are treated less worthy due to fear of their job to lose. This is a fear that Amazon has created.
These are the people who deserve an apology. Pocan, the person who actually received it, made the same call in a Twitter post Saturday.
‘Sigh. It’s not about me, it’s about your workers – who you do not treat with enough respect or dignity, “he wrote. “Start by acknowledging that the inadequate working conditions you have created for ALL your workers correct them for everyone and eventually unite them without interference.”
You can read Amazon’s full apology here.