Documents show Amazon is aware drivers pee in bottles and even defecate enroute

Re:Documents show Amazon is aware drivers pee in bottles and... by prpl on Saturday March 27, 2021 @10:22AM (#26602447)

I floated around grocery stores quite a bit in the early/mid 2000s, working at several locations and various jobs. Meth was fairly common among the grocery night stockers, especially in the big stores. Often times management has some idea of this, but it was usually don’t ask, don’t tell, especially in the union stores, until the point somebody wanted a person fired.

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Re:Documents show Amazon is aware drivers pee in bottles and... by User23 on Saturday March 27, 2021 @10:29AM (#26602505)

I assume some fairly high percentage of FAANG developers are on some kind of lawfully obtained prescription stimulant.

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Re:Documents show Amazon is aware drivers pee in bottles and... by throw10123213 on Saturday March 27, 2021 @10:57AM (#26602746)

I've also heard legends about such stimulants but it would be quite surprising if this was a 'fairly high percentage'.

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Re:Documents show Amazon is aware drivers pee in bottles and... by Der_Einzige on Saturday March 27, 2021 @11:45AM (#26603112)

Let's see -

I knew guys who popped lots of xannies at my the bigcorp I used to work at. There's also a well known culture of microdosing among some at google.

Also, many developers I know smoke weed.

Stimulants I'd expect at a place like amazon. Not sure it's as coming in places with better wlb. They have coffee for that...

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Re:Documents show Amazon is aware drivers pee in bottles and... by wutbrodo on Saturday March 27, 2021 @01:41PM (#26603939)

I'd be extremely surprised if the percentage was "fairly high", having worked in FAANG for half a decade.

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Re:Documents show Amazon is aware drivers pee in bottles and... by throw14082020 on Saturday March 27, 2021 @10:34AM (#26602548)

Prescription stimulant? What do you mean?

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Re:Documents show Amazon is aware drivers pee in bottles and... by Synaesthesia on Saturday March 27, 2021 @10:35AM (#26602559)

Like Ritalin or amphetamine in prescribed form, as ADHD medicine.

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Re:Documents show Amazon is aware drivers pee in bottles and... by etxm on Saturday March 27, 2021 @10:37AM (#26602571)

Probably Adderall or modafinil

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Re:Documents show Amazon is aware drivers pee in bottles and... by gunshai on Saturday March 27, 2021 @10:46AM (#26602646)

Good thing modafinil isn't a stimulant though

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Re:Documents show Amazon is aware drivers pee in bottles and... by etxm on Saturday March 27, 2021 @12:41PM (#26603555)

The interwebs seem to think they are

> Modafinil, a novel stimulant which has several remarkable features... [1]

> Modafinil is considered a stimulant doping agent [2]

> Adderall and modafinil are central nervous system stimulant medications (psychostimulants). [3]

- [1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1675850/

- [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modafinil

- [3] https://americanaddictioncenters.org/adderall/vs-modafinil

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Re:Documents show Amazon is aware drivers pee in bottles and... by aaomidi on Saturday March 27, 2021 @10:36AM (#26602566)

Adderall.

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Re:Documents show Amazon is aware drivers pee in bottles and... by mycologos on Saturday March 27, 2021 @10:29AM (#26602506)

Any guesses as to whether the causality is more "night stocking is tough -- better pop some meth to up my productivity" or "night stocking seems like a good way to earn cash while I'm high on meth"?

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Re:Documents show Amazon is aware drivers pee in bottles and... by prpl on Saturday March 27, 2021 @10:37AM (#26602570)

It was usually the former. It was a very hard job, nearly aerobic, job at least 3 nights a week (1-2 of the nights was working backstock which might not need as much hustle). On top of that, it’s between 11 and 7, some people have more than one job and/or have to switch between day shifts and night shifts.

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Re:Documents show Amazon is aware drivers pee in bottles and... by mycologos on Saturday March 27, 2021 @10:40AM (#26602593)

Interesting. I didn't know meth was cheap enough for this to be economically viable. It reminds me of hearing about cooks who took up smoking because smoke breaks were the only way to get breaks at all during service. From a short-term standpoint, it's got a logic to it.

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Re:Documents show Amazon is aware drivers pee in bottles and... by prpl on Saturday March 27, 2021 @10:51AM (#26602689)

Average pay in 2005 would have been $9-14/hr - top end was journeyman - at least 4 years on the job)

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Re:Documents show Amazon is aware drivers pee in bottles and... by rufus_foreman on Saturday March 27, 2021 @11:26AM (#26602962)

Once when I was taking a taxi, the driver told me he did meth so he could work more hours so that he would have money to buy meth.

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Re:Documents show Amazon is aware drivers pee in bottles and... by tareqak on Saturday March 27, 2021 @10:35AM (#26602554)

I am at a loss here: I don’t understand how your comment relates to the article or to topics related to the article.

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Re:Documents show Amazon is aware drivers pee in bottles and... by bitcharmer on Saturday March 27, 2021 @10:42AM (#26602607)

Meth is an extremely effective stimulant. Its use is quite common among workers who are required to be active for prolonged amount of time

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