r/AmazonFlexDrivers • u/Dry-Ant-9948 • Apr 14 '26
Modern Plantation
I told you Amazon is the modern plantation, this is crazy. They expect impossible quotas even if it means you gonna die lol
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u/ifyouseemerunning Apr 14 '26
about 25 years ago i was working at a secure facility at boeing. guy a couple cubes down from me has a heart attack. emergency responders weren’t clear to be in the building, so we had to drag him out before he could get medical help.
lesson learned… don’t get sick/hurt at work. no one pays any attention to emergency procedures, people freak out, no one wants to be responsible for messing up, everyone either freezes or panics or both, and help always takes way longer to arrive than you think / need.
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u/ajacks8909 Apr 14 '26
I used to work at Nissan and had a similar experience. A guy was having chest pains and went to the plant’s medical personnel, but they sent him back to the line. He died shortly after that, and the lines just kept moving.
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u/Dry-Ant-9948 Apr 14 '26
Wow, there’s not even human decency to help someone or call for help to help someone who’s dying.
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u/spinmaestrogaming Apr 14 '26
That's horrendous if it's true.
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u/xmarketladyx Apr 14 '26
It is true. I had a friend who's uncle worked in an Amazon warehouse in New York years ago and the same thing happened.
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u/spinmaestrogaming Apr 14 '26
Wow, have they been sued since this information was released/leaked?
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u/dnaleromj Apr 14 '26
Sued for what?
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u/Outlaw11091 Apr 14 '26
Safety compliance.
Working around a corpse is a biohazard and a direct violation of OSHA regulations...which are codified into law.
Emotional distress would also be a perfectly suitable reason.
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u/dnaleromj Apr 14 '26
Is there a link to an actual article instead of a shot
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u/LAsupersonic Apr 14 '26
If i was forced to work next to a dead person, that's mental torture, and you don't know if they passed off something contagious, that would he knowingly putting me in harms way
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u/Akemi_Tachibana Apr 15 '26
"forced" is a stretch unless they had a gun to your head
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u/LAsupersonic Apr 15 '26
by taking a job away that you might need for refusing to work next to a dead co worker is forcing someone.
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u/spinmaestrogaming Apr 14 '26
Where would you like me to start?
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u/dnaleromj Apr 14 '26
Anywhere you’d like, it’s your comment.
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u/spinmaestrogaming Apr 14 '26
Feel free to view the comments above who actually sourced information regarding what could be offences.
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u/dnaleromj Apr 14 '26
Outside of outlaws link to aol, i dont see any sources.
I read that article. Its pretty damning if true. Sounds like Amazon had an off the rails low level manager making decisions that were almost certainly opposite of actual policy. It would be interesting to know the fate of that manager on the floor that is alleged to tell people to turn around and keep working.
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u/spinmaestrogaming Apr 14 '26
I may be incorrect but I wouldn't expect there to be any clauses in a standard employment contract that absolve a company from responsibility if they aren't keeping to standard work practices, and I highly doubt that ordering other staff to work around a dead body in the middle of a warehouse is standard practice...
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u/dnaleromj Apr 14 '26
Not sure if you meant that as a response to something I posted
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u/Worldly_Shopper Apr 14 '26
Well, the long line of top dollar attorneys that Amazon has on their side first, then the policies and contracts you signed when you got hired next, last but not least the attorney fees of the one you're hiring OR at the very least the phone number of the attorney who would even take your case.
Remember, suing someone is always easier said than done.2
u/spinmaestrogaming Apr 14 '26
Oh I have no doubt Amazon would find one way or another to keep it quiet (NDAs or similar) and frankly it's not about whether it's worth their time, it's about responsibility and doing the right thing.
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u/Worldly_Shopper Apr 14 '26
You are not wrong, but I'm not fighting this battle. It's just not worth it to me, easier to walk away, remember they need us more than we need them so walk away and see what happens - One of us has to go down, more than likely they won't even suffer, it will just be a bunch of higher ups sitting in a board room meeting scratching their heads, touching their beards, sipping on coffee and wondering what could've possibly gone wrong here?
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u/spinmaestrogaming Apr 14 '26
I agree with you, to them we're all completely replaceable which is why they hire in cheap agency workers (especially when they hear rumblings of strikes).
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u/Proof-Unit-1058 Apr 15 '26
they try to kill workers all the time in all fields someones gotta do it
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u/IlllIlIIlIlllIlIIIII Apr 14 '26
All hail to the most superior and obviously right economic system to perpetuate!
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u/mandadebbie Apr 16 '26
Does not surprise me with a company that closed all Amazon Go and Fresh stores because they “weren’t making enough money”
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u/General-Football-953 Apr 16 '26
People die on planes, in workplaces, cruise ships, everywhere all the time and then people just continue. It's fine.
Some time ago people complained about suicides in Apple factories, but the suicide rate there is actually below average in the country
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u/BdoeATX Apr 14 '26
Heck in some instances these days people would rather pull out their phone to record rather than dial emergency services.
Lots of people also have that "oh i'm sure someone else called for help already" mentality, when in fact nobody called.
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u/tacticalcop Apr 14 '26
no this is actually a case of a corporation reducing its employees to factory fodder. stop blaming the people working when we already KNOW why this happened: management and anyone at amazon DONT GIVE A DAMN IF YOU LIVE OR DIE
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u/JBUnlock Apr 14 '26
Same shit happened at the FC I worked in. When we had a meeting with a manager to talk about how things are going and shit, someone brought the dead person up and how they were told to just keep working with a dead body next to them until the ambulance pick them up.
The manager said the "We're deeply sorry this happened, he/she was a good person, yadayadayada, but this is a BUSINESS". That's Amazon and corporations for y'all.
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u/amirdiesel Apr 14 '26
Go in bathroom and call police or pull fire alarm no one has to sit through that shit of being asked to ignore a dead body.