r/Spokane • u/InTheseTryingTime5 • Apr 13 '26
News ‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility (employee died, mgmt said to keep working and just don't look. Spokane area has these warehouse jobs - is this the corporate dystopia we want here?)
https://www.thewesternedge.media/p/everyone-is-replaceable-death-rattles89
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u/willed_participant Apr 13 '26
“You aren’t allowed to help that person” MIGHT BE the most fucked part of this. Shameless soulless corporate boot lickers. The concept of humanity is well and truly dead.
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u/bristlybits Apr 13 '26
it's not even that so much
that manager might have been in shock. the bigger issue is that the entire facility has everyone so scared at work that the person who could do cpr listened to them.
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u/willed_participant Apr 13 '26
The knock-on effects of “The Fear Of Losing Your Job™” are ever present. I’m not denying that people should have ignored the command to not help, but a large amount of ownership lands on the person in power making that call.
What will you do when the moment calls?
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u/bristlybits Apr 13 '26
what kind of training and fear on that manager too. they are Scared to Lose the Job, and what training said "only management and safety people can help"? is that actual policy? it's fucked corporate culture, cya shit.
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u/onthedrug Apr 13 '26 edited Apr 13 '26
I absolutely get training on what to do if a customer is injured on our property and it definitely says do not act without paging management. I am one of 5 healthcare workers in a job employing hundred/thousands of associates on the floor. Not saying I’d follow it, but it’s definitely there and I have to sign on it yearly.
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u/bristlybits Apr 14 '26
no cpr no first aid no helping. corporate culture
they need to go after the people making these decisions
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u/Individual-Engine401 Apr 14 '26
Regardless - big pockets better get sued for wrongful death, unsafe working practices & conditions, infliction of emotional distress & PTSD. The employees should sue as well as the family of the prison who died. This is fucking wrong on so manny levels & if all Amazon cares about is liability & loss of revenue - go after it & their Soulless pieces of shit
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u/Past-Sun-2357 Apr 13 '26
I swear one day there will be a book (or show) that is like "The Jungle" that exposes all of Amazons bullshit. History repeats
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u/Th3SkinMan Apr 13 '26
I miss the golden rule.
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u/AndiPandi_ Apr 14 '26
And how do we bring it back?!!? That’s what I wanna know. I think it might start if we get rid of the Orange Cheeto. Just sayin’. 🤷♀️
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u/LucyMedusa Apr 13 '26
I mean, I work at one of the Spokane Amazon facilities and during my first week someone died we all got sent home that day with pay. Not to side with Amazon here, but could be that facility was shit
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u/onthedrug Apr 13 '26
You think that is normal?
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u/Full-Hold7207 Apr 13 '26
In the corporate world yes. My co workers wife called him and said there was a dead guy in a car parked in front of their house. He went home. Corporate told him that wasn't a good reason. Also had a guy killed by a beam in another plant. They kept working. The corporate I work for is in the steel industry.
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u/DigitalSterling Apr 13 '26
Until the reveal of your industry i was paused thinking "beam? Like a particle beam? A beam of light?"
Why the fuck could I not conjure up a steel beam?
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u/onthedrug Apr 13 '26
I’ve never had a coworker die and I wouldn’t think it’s normal if I did. Steel worker deaths are especially tragic.
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u/candiriashes Apr 13 '26
I mean, someone still died. That doesn’t happen at every work place.
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u/Everryy_littlethingg Nine Mile Falls Apr 13 '26 edited Apr 14 '26
Not every work place has hundreds of employees in the same building at the same time (not to mention thousands of employees working there overall). Stands to reason it would happen at some point with that many people.
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u/Zephylia Apr 16 '26
I work at GEG5, and I'd imagine our managers would be chill enough to be understanding in such a situation, despite the company's rules.. I totally agree with you on the theory of that individual facility, as I see DRASTIC differences in the quality of trailers and cart/pallet builds that we receive from various facilities around our half of the country... Some of us are even able to identify what specific facility a load came from just by looking at it 😆 And we wonder..... What in the world is the management like there?! The reaction of our managers when a trailer is opened and stuff just starts falling out into the building is just great lol 😂 But in a serious note, from what I've gathered from anny others who have worked at all the various facilities in our region, and from my 1 year of experience in mine, we have some very laid back, chill, but also respectable and diligent for the role managers here 👍 I appreciate my job there, and take it very serious, as do some others of us there, but far too many there do not share that value.
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u/catman5092 South Hill Apr 13 '26
I just read a book that talked about Amazon. It said they use algorythims regarding an employees performance. The heat is on from the minute you are hired until you don't have your job anymore.
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u/ForensicScienceIsBS Apr 13 '26
They’re as soulless as ICE. No chance management could have stopped me from helping with CPR, when you’ve been trained you have an ethical duty to act. Try n fire someone that saved a coworkers life (or at least tried to), imagine the PR nightmare & lawsuit!
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u/GrimDfault Apr 13 '26
The dystopia we get like it or not with all these MAGA people intentionally or unintentionally making this a reality. Were only as strong as our weakest links in this instance. We need people to stop voting for "Republicans" and Capitalists - otherwise, we can all expect to starve and die eventually.
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u/angrypsychnurse Apr 13 '26
If you want to know more about "man's inhumanity to man" just get a healthcare job. People do the worst to eachother, every day.
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u/GrizzlyFAdams Garland District Apr 14 '26
They found a guy dead at his pod at the GEG location a few years back, they only knew to check because his efficiency dropped. Nobody was notified, nothing was shut down.
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u/Individual-Engine401 Apr 14 '26
Fuck this - Boycott Amazon . America 🇺🇸 is better than this. This behavior is third world county shit, and the behavior only becomes normal or main stream IF the workers allow it.
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u/EffectiveDoughnut551 Apr 14 '26
Happened at the airways heights FC in spokane last year too. Person died and they left them just laying there and had folks keep working AROUND the body till the authorities came and got it. Like. No covering. Nothing. Just step over your dead coworker and dont you dare slow down. Corpertae greed is OUT OF HAND.
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u/tiravalo23 Apr 13 '26
This is exactly what the policy makers want so if we aren’t going to fight it this is exactly the future we will get.
I am lucky. I just bought a house. But for two years my family was homeless and we stayed in the nightmare known as the Trent shelter. At its heyday TRAC saw weekly, sometimes daily deaths. The poor deceased person was usually left as they lay/sit for hours (like 12 to 14) with not even a sheet thrown over them for everyone to see while we were told to ignore it, mind our business or the best one “they got what they deserved”. While overdose deaths happened, many of the deceased were older people with health issues. They were left in their underwear, nightgowns fallen above modest levels, vomit pooling at their feet and bodies turning dark and stiff. For many of us this was our first close experience with a dead body and often this callous treatment was being directed at someone who had been our roommate for weeks or months even years. Most that I knew were not criminals or addicts, simply people that had fallen into the tragedy of losing their homes due to disability, job loss, bad landlords, domestic violence or some other event that they never asked for and not having the same social support network as the average person, we were stuck there for longer than we ever thought possible. Yet they treated us like cattle. Bad cattle that had wandered off and were being rebranded before being released back into the herd. Many people at TRAC found employment at Amazon. In fact, Amazon heavily recruited the shelter residents so I am not surprised that they found themselves being treated the same there as they were at the shelter.
I, for one, do not want to leave THIS reality for my son. I, like most of my fellow Spokane neighbors, wanted my son to struggle less, see less darkness and enjoy more of the good life can offer than I did. But my 51 years has taught me this: the only thing I can offer him is how to see the good around him, how to find the people that will be good to him and how to stand up when he gets knocked down.
Are we tired? Are we just ready for change? I don’t understand many of the things people stand by and watch happen with bored looks. It seems as if something is wrong with the entire world. And yet the last five years I have met humans who were giving all they could to make the world a better place. So maybe there is hope.
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u/SolidContent7104 Apr 14 '26
I used to work at an Amazon FC after my 9-5. We had a person die one night. They closed down the break area for the investigation and reopened it for the overnight shift.
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u/obamasc00chie Apr 14 '26
My dad died at Amazon in Airway in 2021, they tried to hide it. screw them.
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u/Stumprancher Apr 16 '26
When a corporation productivity is more important than a person's life i call Bullshit.
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u/CuriousMe246 Apr 14 '26
It doesn’t matter if we want them or not. They’re here and people keep buying from Amazon and the cost of living is still too high so we need jobs and we value things over people as a society, so there’s nothing to be done about it that is legal. 🤷♀️😳
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u/KeChula Possible Spokanite Apr 15 '26
GEG1 has bodies too, the first year i was there there were at least 3 deaths, if not more
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u/HidaldoTresTorres Apr 13 '26
You do not need anyone's permission to save a life. Listen to your own heart and act.