#don't use amazon

[dragonsateyourtoast]

Absolutely fucking incensed by this ad. I can get unlimited months of unlimited reading and listening through Libby on my phone you dumb sack of shit Amazon I will not let you kill libraries I will not let you kill libraries I will not let you kill libraries

[karadin]

Amazon forcing workers into 10 hour ‘megacycle’ shifts or be fired

Posts referencing "megacycle" on Reddit suggest that Amazon warehouses around the country have been rapidly shifting to this new schedule since at least August 2020, often with little warning. For workers used to picking and packing boxes on four or six or eight hour shifts, the transition to the ten hour shift creates an even greater risk for workplace injuries.

The National Employment Law Project found in a 2020 report on workplaces injuries in Amazon warehouses is twice that of the national average for the warehouse industry.

"Amazon’s own internal data paints a very troubling picture about what is happening inside the company’s fulfillment centers," the authors of the report wrote, citing "algorithms being introduced to speed up rates and force workers to work faster" as the driver of high injury rates. Another factor is the exhaustion and fatigue that sets in after lifting boxes for six or eight or 10 hours.

Injury rates are highest during Amazon's peak season in the lead-up to Christmas, when standard shifts extend for 10 to 12 hour a day.

"Megacycle isn't not just bad for lifestyle reasons," a warehouse worker at a delivery station in Queens, New York and a member of the group Amazonians United NYC, told Motherboard. "It's bad for your body. I don't think everyone can handle this."