[News] Toilet breaks are timed for Amazon staff...

[nicko31]

Great place to work, time for a new film Ken Loach...

Amazon strikes: Workers claim their toilet breaks are timed

As UK Amazon workers strike for the first time, staff in Coventry tell the BBC why they are walking out.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[dazzer6666]

No problem personally with any company monitoring productivity, particularly in a company that is wholly reliant on getting orders despatched as quickly and efficiently as possible (they not specifically monitoring time in the bogs, just the time employees aren’t scanning), more the manner in which any downtime is scrutinised, and what measures are taken.

If people are doing 60+ hour weeks plus their commute it’s no wonder their productivity can be shite at times……..

 

[KZNSeagull]

It would be similar at any distribution warehouse I would think, not just Amazon. I know that supermarket distribution centres are pretty ruthless places to work as well. Supermarket pickers are monitored closely too.

 

[Springal]

It would be similar at any distribution warehouse I would think, not just Amazon. I know that supermarket distribution centres are pretty ruthless places to work as well. Supermarket pickers are monitored closely too.

Probably why Ocado are almost all robot now, when they aren’t setting themselves on fire

 

[nicko31]

It would be similar at any distribution warehouse I would think, not just Amazon. I know that supermarket distribution centres are pretty ruthless places to work as well. Supermarket pickers are monitored closely too.

To me its just wrong, if you can't trust staff on toilet breaks it suggests a very poor relationship between management and employees.

Feel for people that have no choice but to work in these places. I'll be reminding my own kids over the dinner table tonight to work hard at school.

 

[BLOCK F]

I wouldn’t last long with my poor old bladder.

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Presumably some staff 'disappear for ages' unfair on more dilligent staff. Depends how far they take it though!

 

[Eeyore]

I'm glad I work from home. Although I have given myself a disciplinary after the time spent in the bog after that curry.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

No shit!

 

[Questions]

I very nearly sacked myself this morning…

 

[KZNSeagull]

To me its just wrong, if you can't trust staff on toilet breaks it suggests a very poor relationship between management and employees.

Feel for people that have no choice but to work in these places. I'll be reminding my own kids over the dinner table tonight to work hard at school.

Yup, but some people do take the piss when taking a piss

 

[Horses Arse]

They might have been taking the piss I guess?

 

[AmexRuislip]

No problem personally with any company monitoring productivity, particularly in a company that is wholly reliant on getting orders despatched as quickly and efficiently as possible (they not specifically monitoring time in the bogs, just the time employees aren’t scanning), more the manner in which any downtime is scrutinised, and what measures are taken.

If people are doing 60+ hour weeks plus their commute it’s no wonder their productivity can be shite at times……..

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Have long been of the opinion that smokers should be docked wages for smoke breaks. Or at least non-smokers given equal privileges. Maybe the right to go outside the building and schmooze with the bosses over a can of Stella every few hours or something

 

[Springal]

Have long been of the opinion that smokers should be docked wages for smoke breaks. Or at least non-smokers given equal privileges. Maybe the right to go outside the building and schmooze with the bosses over a can of Stella every few hours or something

It’s being trialled at sone companies in Japan that non smokers get an extra 6 days holiday

 

[BNthree]

Have long been of the opinion that smokers should be docked wages for smoke breaks. Or at least non-smokers given equal privileges. Maybe the right to go outside the building and schmooze with the bosses over a can of Stella every few hours or something

When I worked with a smoker every time they went on a smoke break I went with them.

 

[pure_white]

Dont they just pee against a tree in the jungle?

 

[Easy 10]

This is nothing new. My first job was in a call centre in the 90s. It was a 7.5 hour day (450 minutes) and out of that, on top of your lunch hour, you were allowed 3% "idle" time (13.5 minutes) to have a fag, have a shit, get some crisps, whatever. It was all recorded on the phone terminal you were signed in on, down to the SECOND.

As long as you weren't ROYALLY taking the piss on idle, then it was never mentioned if you went over a few times. But the malingerers would easily be spotted. And VUD BE DEALT VITH ACCORDINGLY

 

[The Clamp]

 

[Rdodge30]

Reading this reminds me of some of the worst skivers I’ve worked with One bloke used to turn up at 6am with 40/60 fags - always 2 full packs and 1 he’d already started. Another bloke would regularly if not always with about half an hour to go at the end of the shift suddenly end up with his arms covered in crap and would walk through the place shaking his head looking at his hands rolling his eyes and disappear off to the wash room as if the last thing he needed was to have to spend the last half hour not working