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Let's Get Into It - Hosted by Sloan

EXPOSING AMAZON: The World's Most EVIL Corporation

Let's Get Into It - Hosted by Sloan

Sloan Hooks & Studio71

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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0:00.0

Amazon, they treat their workers horribly.

0:02.0

Do not go work for Amazon.

0:04.0

You can't sit down.

0:05.0

They weren't paying their drivers appropriately, not very ethical.

0:08.0

They don't allow bathroom breaks.

0:09.0

You have to get permission now.

0:10.0

Employers cannot have unreasonable restrictions on when you use the bathroom.

0:14.3

It is literally a health and safety issue.

0:16.5

There are people that wear diapers.

0:17.8

Amazon warehouse workers forced to pee in bottles or forgo their bathroom breaks entirely

0:21.0

because fulfillment demands are too high.

0:22.4

With Amazon. I wanted to provide a place that's quiet that people could go and focus on their mental and emotional

0:30.0

well-being.

0:31.0

They didn't let us call for Amblets is for months, maybe years even, because they didn't want it to be

0:34.8

nationalised and in the press that there was ambulances stirred up.

0:37.2

When he heard about a job at Amazon, he thought he was getting the chance of a lifetime.

0:40.9

To secure the position he had to pay the recruiter more than 2,000

0:43.8

they put us in a room like animals eight workers to a room the level of

0:47.2

exploitation they've then faced in Saudi Arabia means that many of them are

0:50.9

highly likely to be victims of human trafficking.

0:53.0

Bring employees accessed consumer content without consent.

0:56.0

Amazon sued for using facial recognition on New Yorkers without permission.

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