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

[Gabbafella]

I work in a small warehouse (7 of us) and we've not long got rid of someone, one of the many, many reasons was toilet breaks.
The guy was useless, picking incorrectly, sending stuff to different customers (if at all), standing around on his phone, wandering off, and spending sometimes over an hour in the toilet each day.
Genuinely heard the guy being told "Put your shoes back on and get back to work!" As he was laying on his work station taking a rest. Next level laziness.

 

[The Seagull]

In a society that needs to show some kind of compassion, timing toilet breaks should be made illegal. We laugh at countries like China for doing such things but it’s on our doorstep. Good the workers for stepping up. They are brave

 

[Stat Brother]

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.

This really isn't a very nice post.

Hopefully your children will remind you the 'Im alright Jack, don't be like 'them', quick pull up the ladder' attitude is, in part, what's created this current mess of a country.

 

[Springal]

This really isn't a very nice post.

Hopefully your children will remind you the 'Im alright Jack, don't be like 'them', quick pull up the ladder' attitude is, in part, what's created this current mess of a country.

Indeed. The few people I know that have or do work in Amazon distribution centres do so either for extra income or because actually the hours they offer are very flexible and ideal for parents wanting some work to fit around their schedule / childcare etc - not because they are thickos.

 

[Hamilton]

One, two, poo

 

[raymondo]

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

The smokers where I worked were ITK days before the rest of us because they met 4 times a day with the loose tongued, smoking HR Manager.

 

[nicko31]

This really isn't a very nice post.

Hopefully your children will remind you the 'Im alright Jack, don't be like 'them', quick pull up the ladder' attitude is, in part, what's created this current mess of a country.

You may interpret it that way, but I wan them to understand to due to our weak protections in this country people are getting exploited by corporate power that take everything and give very little in return. This is where we are right now.

My fear is if the the Tories get their way with bonfire of EU reg things are going to get a hell of a lot worse. They'll come for sick pay, paid holidays and maternity next....

 

[Diallo]

Why can’t people leave Amazon alone?

People are just jealous of the success of Amazon and co.

 

[Easy 10]

Be nice if they paid their fair share of tax in this country.

 

[Springal]

Be nice if they paid their fair share of tax in this country.

The government can quite easily make that happen but won’t. Amazon pay what the law tells them they need to pay. And I agree it’s a joke

 

[GOM]

Be nice if they paid their fair share of tax in this country.

Just like every one of us, they pay what they are obliged to pay. Hands up anyone here that pays more tax than the tax man asks them for.........

 

[Diallo]

Be nice if they paid their fair share of tax in this country.

Even if they don’t, they still shouldn’t be getting questioned. We all know questioning the elites is just conspiracy nonsense fuelled by hats made of tin foil.
Read a book called ‘The Psycopath Test’ by a guardian newspaper columnist call Jon Ronson. You’ll learn from reading that book that anyone questioning a government, elite corporations etc is actually massive mentally ill. There’s no way that book is propaganda driven based on some ridiculous, sensational example. There’s no way that book leads the most guilable fools of society into defending Nazi like state we’ve walked into called the New Normal.
It’s a book that makes you realise the elites of this world ie Amazon are the good guys and those questioning them are the bad guys.
Buy the book. It’s brilliant!

 

[portlock seagull]

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

Presumption probably t

Just like every one of us, they pay what they are obliged to pay. Hands up anyone here that pays more tax than the tax man asks them for.........

easier to get around if you can afford expensive accountants and lawyers, coupled with a system that’s full of exploitable holes. I think that’s the point.

 

[Easy 10]

Just spitballing. I'm well aware Amazon are doing nothing unlawful with their tax affairs, and the blame for that lies with the Government, which is riddled from top to bottom with corruption and cronyism . Its still distasteful on Amazons part though, and they're obviously not the only ones. And I say this as an Amazon Prime subscriber, so I'm just another part of the problem.

Sigh.

 

[nicko31]

Just like every one of us, they pay what they are obliged to pay. Hands up anyone here that pays more tax than the tax man asks them for.........

What we really need is somewhere like a chartered city or freeport. There they can do what they bloody well like, a deregulated utopia when they are answerable to no one.

 

[portlock seagull]

Why can’t people leave Amazon alone?

People are just jealous of the success of Amazon and co.

I do leave them alone. I don’t use, and ask friends and family not to either if want to send me a gift etc. It’s very easy. There are millions of other retailers, and direct sale retailer sites. Just need a brain to find them.

 

[rippleman]

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

Many years ago (long before the smoking ban) I worked in an office that introduced a "smoking room" because of complaints from non-smoking staff. The irony was that the staff that spent the most time in the "smoking room" were the non-smoking staff who had complained about the smoking in the first place

 

[GOM]

Just spitballing. I'm well aware Amazon are doing nothing unlawful with their tax affairs, and the blame for that lies with the Government, which is riddled from top to bottom with corruption and cronyism . Its still distasteful on Amazons part though, and they're obviously not the only ones. And I say this as an Amazon Prime subscriber, so I'm just another part of the problem.

Sigh.

Blame accountants as well if you want, every company has one as well as millions of individuals. It their job to legally minimise tax liability, they spend years learning and qualifying to achieve this end.

 

[Whitechapel]

When I worked at World Of Books there was one shift leader who timed toilet breaks. One time she had a go at me for taking longer than I should have and when I pointed out I’d had a shit she actually asked someone else in our department to go and have a sniff of the bathroom to see if I was telling the truth.

Mental, mental bitch.

 

[Stat Brother]

Blame accountants as well if you want, every company has one as well as millions of individuals. It their job to legally minimise tax liability, they spend years learning and qualifying to achieve this end.

How much training do you actually need in order to sit back in your chair and say:-

'donate £500k to the party of the current government, and jobs a good'un'.