Lets hope the lawyers for the poor person's family and the workers forced to keep working are very good at their job.
luxuryballs 2 days ago [-]
I expect to be working until I’m dead also
6stringmerc 2 days ago [-]
How much do you have set aside for a service or burial or cremation? It came up during an argument recently with a family member, so if your outlook is that bleak, try not to shuffle off this mortal coil and leave us in the hole to put you in one. Please.
queenkjuul 2 days ago [-]
Just throw me in the trash
xtiansimon 1 days ago [-]
Cremate me and flush me down the toilet, or turn me into pebbles--
That is not a viable solution in the United States. Perhaps you live in India or Brazil where such solutions are legal? If not, when are you moving to such a country?
beAbU 1 days ago [-]
What would I care though? I'll be dead!
hulitu 1 days ago [-]
> That is not a viable solution in the United States
I saw a documentary on Discovery Channel, about 20 years ago when this channel still had something to offer, about New York mafia, where they stated that the New York mafia threw their victims in the garbage.
luxuryballs 1 days ago [-]
well hopefully I’ll have enough squirreled away by then if life insurance won’t pay out
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6stringmerc 2 days ago [-]
Why do I get the feeling Bezos will try to lobby to have the law allow Amazon to harvest dead employees’ organs and sell them for profit if they die in a warehouse?
Logical extension of standard business mentality, if you’re honest enough.
codeddesign 2 days ago [-]
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nslsm 2 days ago [-]
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ffsm8 2 days ago [-]
You consider it normal working condition if you're right next to the corpse of a colleague? As in literally, because that's what the article is about: being made to work right next to the corpse
In think that's quiet extreme, honestly. Wat beyond what it'd expect any supervisor to ask of the employees.
most people have some connections to their co-workers. And if one of your friends dies right in front of you... it should be human decency to at least give then some time to settle until the body has been taken care off.
skeuomorphism 2 days ago [-]
Youre responding to an account less than a month old
ffsm8 2 days ago [-]
Ah, I didn't check that. Thanks for pointing that out.
I guess that was me interacting with a bot
raks619 1 days ago [-]
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Moomoomoo309 1 days ago [-]
Yes. Respect for the human who just died is more important than money, and I'm saddened you don't see that.
hackingonempty 2 days ago [-]
Amazon employs around 900,000 people in logistics. The crude annual mortality rate in the USA is around 911/100,000. If there are 900,000 employees working eight hours a day then around seven people a day are dying of natural causes on their shift. This is without considering that they are being worked to the bone.
This only works if you assuming the mortality rates are evenly distributed. Most of the people who die are not working right until the end—and the conditions which lead to them dying usually aren’t compatible with a demanding job.
hackingonempty 2 days ago [-]
You are correct that it is a rough estimate but my point stands. While most of us will never experience the shock of someone dying at work, it is an every day occurrence at the scale of Amazon.
acdha 1 days ago [-]
You have provided no evidence supporting that belief and brushing aside the obvious challenges makes it hard to believe you have done the math. I’d also note that if this was actually true, it would be more surprising that they didn’t have a policy for dealing with it and had to improvise on the fly.
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queenkjuul 2 days ago [-]
And making people continue to work when their coworker just died on the floor is nonetheless inhumane
DivingForGold 2 days ago [-]
Sounds like something out of a dystopian movie
hulitu 1 days ago [-]
You have a deadline. /s
6stringmerc 2 days ago [-]
The utter contempt you express for human life is abhorrent. Cloaking it in math only exacerbates your cruel disregard for, well, lacking shame in expressing such mental illness in public. I’d recommend therapy but you probably have a formula to justify not going to that either. Disgusting.
explodes 2 days ago [-]
Whether you like it or not, these numbers provide context. The raw data make no moral judgements.
hackingonempty 2 days ago [-]
When I saw the article I recalled a doctor who worked at the sports stadium. Probably every stadium has a doctor on duty because there are medical emergencies any time you get 50,000 people together. Sometimes people die while they are still on the premises.
So I wanted to know how approximately how many people you would expect die of natural causes per day in a group of people as large as Amazon warehouse workers.
If you expect people to die every day while working in an Amazon warehouse and there was no cause of death disclosed for the unfortunate person referenced in TFA then the fact that he died is not news.
roryirvine 1 days ago [-]
The death may not be particularly newsworthy, but the callous reaction of management certainly is.
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I saw a documentary on Discovery Channel, about 20 years ago when this channel still had something to offer, about New York mafia, where they stated that the New York mafia threw their victims in the garbage.
Logical extension of standard business mentality, if you’re honest enough.
In think that's quiet extreme, honestly. Wat beyond what it'd expect any supervisor to ask of the employees.
most people have some connections to their co-workers. And if one of your friends dies right in front of you... it should be human decency to at least give then some time to settle until the body has been taken care off.
I guess that was me interacting with a bot
>>> .00911 * (8 / (24 * 365)) * 900000 = 7.487671232876712
So I wanted to know how approximately how many people you would expect die of natural causes per day in a group of people as large as Amazon warehouse workers.
If you expect people to die every day while working in an Amazon warehouse and there was no cause of death disclosed for the unfortunate person referenced in TFA then the fact that he died is not news.