911 calls from Amazon warehouses show emotional distress and suicide threats

Re:911 calls from Amazon warehouses show emotional distress ... by ctrl-j on Monday March 11, 2019 @12:45PM (#19360406)

> Whether they're in a office of a company that rents two floors of a 350,000 square foot office tower in a downtown of a major city, sitting on their couches in a single family home in a suburb playing videos games on their xbox, attending a music festival, literally any imaginable human activity.

This is not 189 total 911 calls - this is 189 calls for emotional distress.

Personal experience dictates that on-the-job suicidal thoughts are vastly diminished compared to netflix/xbox suicidal thoughts. When you are actively engaged and distracted, you are less likely to be wrapped up in self-destructive thoughts.

The best comparison would be do find numbers of on-the-job emotional distress calls from Walmart, McDonalds, UPS, or other large employers. I have no idea how Amazon compares, but 189 over 5 years intuitively seems high.

Compare apples to apples if you want to compare.

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Re:911 calls from Amazon warehouses show emotional distress ... by behringer on Monday March 11, 2019 @01:28PM (#19360843)

On top of that, remember Amazon has its own emergency staff on hand so they probably don't call 911 when their own emergency staff resolves the situation.

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Re:911 calls from Amazon warehouses show emotional distress ... by jrnichols on Thursday March 14, 2019 @09:49PM (#19395744)

I was one of those Amcare employees for a 6 month contract. The only first aid provider in a warehouse. I ended up placing 1 911 call for a seizure, and that was it. Zero mental health issues. Most everything was minor injuries, and many of those seemed like borderline workers comp fraud too.

Amazon has 8 or 9 warehouses in the Dallas Ft Worth area alone. I wonder how many 911 calls they've generated and what for.

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