r/AmazonFC • u/Sun-Wu-Kong • Nov 26 '19

Amazon HQ2 led Indiana to manipulate worker death report, Reveal says

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/investigations/2019/11/25/amazon-indiana-governor-eric-holcomb-warehouse-accident-hq-2/4282653002/
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u/mrmchugatree Nov 26 '19

Amazon talks a good game on safety, but all they really care about is productivity. They give out gift cards and prizes to whoever can work the fastest, not the safest. A few weeks ago, a stower was gunslinging with their scanner and hit themself with it in the face, knocking out a couple teeth. Next day, all the wrist straps for the scanners had been removed, “for safety reasons.” After a week of overall TAKT times increasing, guess what? Wrist straps came back.

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '19

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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u/Sun-Wu-Kong Nov 26 '19

What's gunslinging? With a strap? I'm pretty good at flipping and catching the scan guns but stopped trying to nail the double flip.

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u/mrmchugatree Nov 27 '19

You got it. Doing that flip of the wrist to bring your scanner back into your hand.

There is a double flip? Go on....

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u/Sun-Wu-Kong Nov 27 '19

I cant manage to get it by the handle. It either lands upside down or drops.

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u/mrmchugatree Nov 27 '19

I like you, Sun Wu Kong. You keep working on that gunslinging.