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Re:Amazon warehouses are ‘cult-like’ sweatshops run by robot... by solidasparagus on Sunday December 01, 2019 @05:36PM (#21678274)
This feels like an overly negative article. Maybe it's just me, but it seems like the author was unhappy with some pretty innocent things - stretching, being instructed how to bend in a way that doesn't do long-term damage, having managers that emphasized staying hydrated, having to wear gloves to handle the merchandise. Other things seem like the normal shitty reality of manual labor jobs - she complains that her 1 month on the job crippled her, but I didn't really understand how it's worse than any other manual labor job.

I'm sure there's some valid problems in there, but she's so hyperbolic that it's hard to tell what is and is not worth listening to.

> I soon learned that only difference between an Amazon warehouse and a third-world sweatshop were the robots

I'm going to guess she's never actually seen a third-world sweatshop.

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