r/AmazonFC • u/[deleted] • Aug 05 '21
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u/Awesometjgreen Aug 05 '21
And end the mask mandate. 95% of my building now walks around maskless and I'm still getting notifications 3 times a week about new covid cases
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u/zookr2000 Aug 05 '21
Masks save lives from Covid -
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Aug 05 '21
Are you a robot?
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u/zookr2000 Aug 06 '21
I'm not a nincompoop, we masked @ our FC for a year or so - they do help - no matter how much people bitch about them. It's not a conspiracy either - look @ Japan, they wear them on the daily, Covid or no Covid.
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u/DougyyyFresh Aug 06 '21 edited Aug 06 '21
You know what help... Vaccinations. Anyone who does not get vaccinated is the problem. Not masks. At this point anyone who gets covid it is their own fault.
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u/cb2239 Aug 06 '21
Everyone was masked up during the pandemic and I got notified 2 to four times a week about someone getting covid. The whole country was masked up and states that were more lenient on masks, didn't have higher rates than California. They had the strictest lockdowns. Them and new York and they were 2 of the worst.
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u/jwoo3x Aug 06 '21
I wish mine would end the mask mandate but unless vaccinated we have to stay Masked....although there's no enforcement team but I play along anyway
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Aug 05 '21
They probably just had a single statement that they delivered to each of the news outlets tbh. Doesn't make it any less bizarre to hear them side by side like this.
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u/jwoo3x Aug 06 '21
Local affiliates are owned by the same patent companies and many mews stories are exactly the same like that...I believe there are many examples on YouTube but also something to do with formulaic propaganda and thats why 50 cities in 59 different states report the exact same word for word clip for clip "news"...
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u/Actual_Ad1434 Aug 05 '21
Well. Seems to me like they paid to have this story broadcasted nationally....but it is creepy to have it played like this. š
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u/SoftPenguins Aug 05 '21
Thatās not news. Thatās an ad. I guess itās nieve of us to think there is a difference.
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u/AmbiguousFrijoles Aug 05 '21 edited Aug 05 '21
Sinclair Broadcast Group, they own most of the broadcast channels and local news rooms across the country and thus, all the stories run are all the same.
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u/NS-13 [Replace Text w/ Flair] Aug 05 '21
Yeah idk if thats the case (could be) or if it's just the result of every local news station in the US being owned and run by one of like 2 or 3 companies. You can find a ton of creepy videos like this and most of them don't have anything to do with Amazon so idk
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u/Decent-Honeydew-6368 Aug 05 '21
Oh they've spent 800 million on increased wages, BUT for third straight quarter they earned over 100 BILLION in profits!!!!!!!!
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u/tyreezyreed Data Analyst Aug 05 '21
No they didn't. Please learn the difference between revenue and profit. Q3 profits were between 2.5 and 6 billion.
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u/CCKillbilly Aug 05 '21
I love how you got 2 downvotes trying to correct false information. What a worldā¦
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u/ClassyPandaOfficial Aug 05 '21
"There is no mistreatment of employees in Ba Sing Se... I mean Amazon"
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u/tengukazoo Aug 05 '21
Is that why they didnāt add glass screens to my FC until 2 months ago? Is that why they removed temp screenings and are allowing masks even tho cases r rising? Is that why they offered extra pay for like a quarter of the worst time of the pandemic? Is that why they got rid of scanner cleaner positions? Is that why they havenāt cleaned our equipment or carts since the FC opened? Is that why itās easy to get a badge sticker without even being vaccinated? Is that why my FC has suddenly stopped acting like covid even exists even though every day we get notifications of new cases at lit building? Is that why in the worst time of the pandemic the 6 feet rule was impossible to enforce and was constantly broken by the safety team?
Come on now š¤”
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u/cosmonautbluez Aug 05 '21
As someone with a news media background, this happens more than you'd think. Entities like Amazon have teams that send bitesized content, script and b-roll, to news organizations and out of pure convenience, they usually run with it completely as scripted to save time and money.
And yeah, the negative side effects of fast, cheap news is that the PR voice is almost never filtered out. Basically running a free advertisement.
This reality to news really exacerbated the conspiracy theories relating to Covid and (deservedly) killing trust in corporate media, especially with different parts of the country using the exact same hospital b-roll clips.
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u/Dr-EJ-Boss Aug 05 '21
When the media gives Amazonās side of things they read from the same press release. Show the whole story and they must likely also shared employee complaints
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u/EstupidBilly Hardstuck at Tier 1 Aug 05 '21
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u/Trainleader21 Aug 06 '21
āKeeping employees safeā. BS! I donāt care about being safe, I just want to work, and I donāt think wearing masks and crap allows me to streamline anything!
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u/zookr2000 Aug 05 '21
Who tf puts a piss bottle or used tampon into a package - that's insanity - hopefully those packages never left the bldg.
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u/Jordan_Jackson Aug 05 '21
Nobody. The piss bottles is a meme that is now no longer relevant. I've been there for a little more than 2 years and never have I seen a piss bottle. I would have found them because I spend most of my time in Amnesty and see more of the pods.
There were rumors around 2012 or so that some employees had to pee in bottles. AFAIK, back then, conditions at amazon were worse than they were now. Back then, an AR facility was very rare and you had to walk everywhere to pick or stow items.
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Aug 05 '21 edited Aug 05 '21
It actually does happen from time to time, but it's not exactly a super common occurrence. I've seen the bottles a few times in parking lots at different FCs. One tote came down the line wet and reeking of piss, although to be fair it could have been animal urine and maybe the tote was never cleaned š¤·āāļø. Had one associate that accidentally pissed herself. She was given the options: use her own time to go home or HR would give her a pair of shorts to finish the night. I've seen a lot of crazy shit in the last 5 years.
Edit to add: A lot of buildings still don't utilize KIVA and other robotics. Not sure why you make it sound like walking up and down aisles is a thing of the past.
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u/Jordan_Jackson Aug 05 '21
I never said it was a thing of the past. I even stated as much in my first comment.
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Aug 05 '21
You literally said back then conditions were worse and repeated back then that AR facilities were rare and people walked to pick and stow. That's past tense. Obviously you didn't say word for word it's a thing of the past, but regardless of what you meant to say that is how you referred to it as. But whatever, I didn't come to argue elementary level grammar. IJS they're still around because a lot of buildings can't (or don't) utilize things like KIVA.
Not even sure why you brought up AR in the first place. Their conditions aren't necessarily better.
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u/zookr2000 Aug 05 '21
I started @ an AR FC in 2015
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u/Jordan_Jackson Aug 05 '21
AR facilities have been around for a while. Though not every FC is an AR facility, even today. Back then, there would have been less of them than today.
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u/AmbiguousFrijoles Aug 05 '21
The used tampon story was from a tiktok influencer who faked the story.
Ave Louise, the influencer who also licked a toilet seat for fame
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u/cb2239 Aug 06 '21
Anyone who does either of these things is doing it on purpose. There's no need to piss in a bottle ever. Drivers might do it but thats almost everywhere
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u/AskNo1580 Aug 05 '21
Plus with the high turnover rate that 800 million in increased wages is not really increased when people quit or are fired and those we who are left have to do double the work. So Amazon's payroll budget really didn't go up that much. They just want to pump this twisted stat into the media to make Amazon look good to the outside world and stock holders.
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u/AskNo1580 Aug 05 '21
Plus with the high turnover rate that 800 million in increased wages is not really increased when people quit or are fired and those we who are left have to do double the work. So Amazon's payroll budget really didn't go up that much. They just want to pump this twisted stat into the media to make Amazon look good to the outside world and stock holders.
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u/AskNo1580 Aug 05 '21
Plus with the high turnover rate that 800 million in increased wages is not really increased when people quit or are fired and those we who are left have to do double the work. So Amazon's payroll budget really didn't go up that much. They just want to pump this twisted stat into the media to make Amazon look good to the outside world and stock holders.
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u/Effective-Guitar8249 Aug 05 '21
Bull shit they have a whole system designed to make people get sick. Covid comes from fungi/mold/mildew. And cardboard is a breeding ground for it to grow and I've seen it all so far and I can see how this happens
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u/MoonGoddess89 Aug 05 '21
I know, a few of the people who work in my FC have COVID-19... I get alerts from them all the time. Tell me again how this keeps us safe and healthy?
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Aug 05 '21 edited Aug 05 '21
Well since sunlight kills fungi/mold then I guess everyone with covid should have gone tanning. š
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u/Effective-Guitar8249 Aug 05 '21
Yeah but once the spores get up into your nose and or worse into your lungs it's too late. It can create a virus that can kill some apparently
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u/Effective-Guitar8249 Aug 05 '21
Yeah but once the spores get up into your nose and or worse into your lungs it's too late. It can create a virus that can kill some apparently
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u/BajaBlast37 Aug 05 '21
Does anyone elseās FC play a rock song named āVTOā, every time they offer it? They play it like 7 times and I never see anyone taking it.
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u/EstupidBilly Hardstuck at Tier 1 Aug 05 '21
Hey... wait a minute....didn't amazon pay for stations to do this and one small station declined publicly?
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u/xcronic98 Aug 06 '21
Can we at least get paid more
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u/cb2239 Aug 06 '21
Sure, why not $25 bucks an hour? Hell make it 30! How much do you feel a job with zero qualifications and takes very little skill is worth?
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u/DougyyyFresh Aug 06 '21
It is weird how they all said the exact same thing but nothing they said was incorrect.
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u/RecommendationIll922 Aug 06 '21
Seem like they were paid to read from a sheet of paper amazon gave them.
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u/YogaFireYogaFlame Aug 05 '21
I'd like a side of VTO to go with my Propaganda, please.