Amazon Bans Its Drivers From Moving Their Own Lips Too Much At Work [Update]
Amazon Bans Its Drivers From Moving Their Own Lips Too Much At Work [Update]
The retail giant has reportedly started monitoring delivery drivers who sing along to the radio claiming it’s a cause of distracted driving
Amazon trying to cover their ass?
Updated Wednesday, September 4, 2024 5:10 p.m. EST - Amazon reached out to deny the reports of a crack down on singing along with the radio in trucks and provided this PR video clip as evidence. A PR spokesperson told Jalopnik: “This post is completely inaccurate. Amazon has never issued guidance or communications to Delivery Service Partners that prohibits singing in the vehicle.”
LOL the balls on these companies
I'm shocked people are still putting up with all this horseshit. Why is everyone so complacent. I don't get it.
47When you're desperate for work and low on options, you take what you can get.
41It's not even employment, I mean buying from these companies. Why...it's not even convenient anymore having to return most of the crap or throw it out because of how utterly cheap it is.
Collectively, humans are fucking stupid and can't do the only thing to kill these companies. Stop giving them money. But everyone is great at going online and bitching about em.
I refuse to buy online. Unless I can see the thing BEFORE buying, I won't buy it. I've literally broken stuff in stores to test how I'm going to be fucked. Ripped soles off shoes, bent steel frying pans. I'm sick of everything that this world is turning into...the only thing that will have SOME form of quality is our jail cells for when we try to take everything back.
11And they are low on options, because people keep buying from these shit companies.
I have never bought anything from Amazon.
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This is beyond micromanagement. Nanomanagement? Or did they skip a step and go straight to picomanagement?
33femtomanagement
5Perhaps even attomanagement
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Amazon Representative: This post is completely inaccurate
Amazon has lied before. When the right to sing is explicitly enumerated in the union-approved contract we can believe them.
23Read between the lines in Amazon's response.
They probably monitor the drivers for lip movements to see if they're talking on the phone, but their monitoring can't differentiate between singing or talking to one's self and talking or singing to someone else, so everyone gets flagged. The drivers know the best way to avoid the ire of management is to simply not move their lips.
It may not be an outright prohibition, but it does have a chilling effect, which makes it as good as one.
12Please tell me this is the onion.
5So if they say they didnt, then why does the post title say they did?
The source of this claim was from an employee right? Is it accurate?
1“PR spokesperson said he company is great and would never do something ghoulish. Why aren’t we believing them?”
I get that skepticism is good and healthy. But at what point does a person or organization lose the benefit of the doubt? I’m more liable to believe some story about Amazon abusing its employees than I would be to assume they’re innocent.
They denied the peeing in bottles thing too. And denying their warehouse employees bathroom breaks. Turns out they weren’t “denying” the, bathroom breaks, but building a structure that basically eliminates employees’ time to do so. The rule probably isn’t “no singing in the car.” It’s probably “we are monitoring you to make sure you aren’t talking on the phone or performing other work while we pay you. Bonus side effect: employees can’t sing along to music. Look at what he spokesperson said. “We have never Prohibited singing in vehicles.” Subtext: we never explicitly said that. Doesn’t mean it isn’t happening.
3Sounds like a healthy opportunity to say we dont know, or maybe not comment/post at all.
Pulling "gotchya" moments out of thin air to spite big money just makes us stupid.
"I dont have time to investigate amazon myself so im just going to pull out my scorecard and mark one for the proletariats."
Who does that serve? What does that do? Besides make us desensitized to more substantiated wrongdoings?
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