All of you talking about delivery times, cost, quality...I stopped shopping at Amazon when I heard people were peeing in bottles.

prepend 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It’s extremely common for delivery drivers to pee in bottles. Have you ever driven delivery?

I remember a friend in the 90s excited about his job at UPS. He laughed about the pee bottle. Same for people I know who work for usps and fedex.

Kind of makes sense. Where do you expect someone to pee who is driving around for 10 hours a day.

...and I am being generous by focusing on the pee instead of the deaths: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Amazon_worker_fataliti...

	▲	prepend an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Again, these aren’t unique to Amazon, per se. Just to the scale of their operation and the scrutiny Amazon has. Assembly line jobs are rough and people pee in bottles, and die. The important piece these articles leave out is how much more common these are at Amazon. I remember my first jobs at random companies where I was hourly and needed approval for bathroom breaks. It sucked and I would plan my day around break times. I think these articles are more a function of being surprising to us because we work cushy desk jobs where we can break all we want and use unlimited sick days because we program.

gossamer 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Or having to continue to work while their dead co-workers are laying nearby under a blanket. Yikes.