Employees at Amazon's New NYC Warehouse Launch Unionization Push

Horror stories of people controlling your rate so you can't go to the restroom when you need to unless on breaks. This is even easier to do if you are allowed to speed up how fast people are to work.

Anything with a computer and robots can be fudged, especially these newer fulfillment places.

I've heard horror stories where, this guy went to check up on his neighbor, his quota was through the roof because he was doing the very easy stuff (small items) at the same time he was walking around every 30 minutes (that guy was taking note of how many times he walked and for how long.... sometimes that guy would be gone for 5 minutes.) The other guy on the other hand? He wasn't able to because he was given big items day in and day out.... and going to the restroom at an inopportune time will lower his quota by half in a few minutes.

For some automated parts, I've heard managers ARE allowed to slow down your work without you knowing... that is how they fire some people over time for people who don't follow their views... or people they don't like.

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