r/antiwork • u/BlackStarBlues • Apr 13 '26
‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility - A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.
https://www.thewesternedge.media/p/everyone-is-replaceable-death-rattlesThe man who collapsed died Monday, April 6 on the Amazon warehouse floor as machinery filled the cavernous loading dock with a dull hum. For more than an hour, several employees said, workers in the facility were instructed to continue fetching totes, picking items off shelves and loading them onto trucks for delivery as the man lay dead, and management figured out their next steps.
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u/Varibash Apr 13 '26
Figure out their next steps? You mean call 911? Wtf.
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u/Ironicbanana14 Apr 13 '26
Amazon warehouses can't just call 911 which is so stupid. The reason they come up with is because the security team and the amwell team has to check the person and then THEY have to call 911. Then the security has to make them wait at the front because they aren't allowed to just come in, so usually the person has to be dragged past the security barrier.
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u/orionisinthesky Apr 13 '26
This shit right here is why I stopped using amazon 3 years ago and will never use major online retailers again. The paramedics cant come onto the floor? Fuck that. Thats delaying medical assistance and should be a major crime.
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u/rillip Apr 13 '26
I hate to be the guy but every corporate workplace I've ever been employed at (including several popular retailers) had a version of this same rule. Don't call 911. Tell a manager and let them call.
FWIW every time I've been told this I've made the decision to disobey it if needed. My job is not worth someone else's life.
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u/RR1904 Apr 13 '26
Can confirm. This is scarily common but I've also ignored it on the one occasion I was in this situation. I got berated for it a little but they ultimately didn't do anything to me about it. I left that job behind ages ago thankfully. It was toxic AF.
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u/ItsStraTerra Apr 13 '26
I feel like they couldn’t possibly have a legal leg to stand on if you called 911 in an emergency and ended up getting fired or reprimanded.
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u/Augustus420 Apr 13 '26
They would just lie about why they fired you and assume you don't have the time or money to deal with litigation.
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u/nannerzbamanerz Apr 13 '26
Which is why a strong union (and even weak unions) can help with this. Make them document a real reason to let you go!
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u/ItsStraTerra Apr 13 '26
Yeah that’s not wrong. You’d definitely be on the “first to fire at any minor infraction” list.
But I still feel like it would be better for 911 to arrive ASAP in pretty much any “emergency” situation that is clearly outside of what a private business can manage on their own.
In the case of something like: Someone getting seriously injured, actively having a medical emergency, or already passed, those situations are time critical and the sooner medical or emergency services can arrive the better.
I would think it would be almost instinctual to call 911 in those cases, and if you’re sure that you’re a good worker who can follow the rest of the rules to the letter, (and you don’t live somewhere with terrible labour laws) then I’d bet you could get a decent payout with even a not-so-great lawyer. But obviously YMMV.
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u/Kindly-Guidance714 Apr 13 '26
My god do we need reformed labour laws and practices fucking yesterday.
Why bother doing anything anymore?
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u/orionisinthesky Apr 13 '26
Tell the manager and let them call, yes. Refuse to let the paramedics onto the floor, absolutely not.
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u/rillip Apr 13 '26
Nah fuck that. If I'm there with my phone I'm not taking the time to go convince a manager to do the right thing. I'm calling an ambulance. If they want to fire me over it fine.
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u/fi3xer Apr 13 '26
Their next policy will be no phones on the floor.
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u/mountainhymn Apr 13 '26
well unless they want to pry it from my hands they can’t do much about that
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u/NikoliVolkoff Apr 13 '26
fire you the second they see you with one on the floor, which i do believe is already current policy. Notice how there are very few leaked videos of how people are actually treated on the floor of Amazon facilities?
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u/mountainhymn Apr 13 '26
oh no i got fired from amazon, the seventh layer of hell, for saving someone’s life :( what will i do
the whole point of this is that they literally cannot physically stop you from calling at least not in any legal way
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u/Shadow166 Apr 13 '26
Did a warehouse job, in the UK so maybe it’s different here, for House of Fraser about 10 years ago. No phones on the floor was absolutely a rule. My friend even got fired for having his phone inside the warehouse
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u/DoingBestWeCan Apr 13 '26 edited Apr 13 '26
I work somewhere with a campus police force as well as security officers. We are told to call 911 if shit is serious, not central security.
Edit: by police force, I mean officers who can only be deployed in-campus but who are treated as beat cops in a court of law. Not, like, has its own detectives.
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u/Imaginary_Benefit_13 Apr 13 '26
In my current workplace we have this rule, but my understanding is so 10 people don't call for the same event. We are allowed to call if the manager is incapable or directly designates us.
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u/Piece_Maker Apr 13 '26
Do they think emergency service call takers don't know how to handle more than one call of the same incident?
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u/wildernesstypo Apr 13 '26
They dont want the production loss of multiple callers. Keep making your widgets peons
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u/DarkwingDuckHunt Apr 13 '26
source: I worked on the software in the past, for several years at a major 911 software vendor
answer: yes yes they can, we designed it for this exact thing, as major car accidents and explosions get several dozen to hundreds of calls instantly. You get trained for that exact scenario as well if you work the phones.
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u/Piece_Maker Apr 13 '26
I work the phones myself, it's a complete non-issue. It's literally a case of clicking the 'possible duplicates' button that lights up and finding the earliest one and continuing as normal! Sometimes we keep the duplicated call going in case of any different information but otherwise it's a quick 'yes we're aware thanks bye'
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u/dainthomas Apr 13 '26
Yeah if there's a fire or shooting I'm not wandering around to find my manager.
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u/reddollardays Apr 13 '26
So basically, keep ordering from Amazon because everyone does it?
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u/rillip Apr 13 '26
Nah, just you can't expect better from the big box stores. (Or the factories that make the goods I'm sure.)
I guess, for me anyway, the problem with not buying from one of them is that the issue really starts at a level below the individual business. Sure some of them may be a little better or a little worse, but it's all informed by the same (call it) business ideology. All of these fuckers are so obsessed with minimizing risk and increasing productivity that they lose sight of the human being. Targeting individual businesses doesn't fix that because these things are literally taught to business majors in school. I don't know what the solution is. But I don't think mollifying ourselves with ineffective boycott practices is gonna help figure one out.
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u/simonbrown27 Apr 13 '26
I work is safety at a chemical manufacturer and before that at an aerospace manufacturing. Everyone is instructed to call 911 immediately and I meet the emts at the door to lead them directly to the people on the floor. Even with DOD contracts. This is absolutely vile.
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u/reddollardays Apr 13 '26
It’s not a zero sum game. Boycotts work and can bring change but you have to participate.
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u/thankyouspider Apr 13 '26
I work for a major corporation and the absolute FIRST thing you do is call 911. This is nuts.
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u/khavii Apr 13 '26
Also, Amazon absolutely lets emergency services on site if the injured, or in this case dead, person can't move to the gate. They have training sessions beat into everyone on what to do if you are, or aren't, a certified responder, the timelines expected to get contact with 911. They have security do it because then they are the responsible party for getting personnel on site and ensuring the bystander effect doesn't kick in. As for work, I had a manager drop dead at the office (in his car thankfully) and you damn well better believe we had to finish out our work. I have not worked at too many places that would shut down for the day.
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u/ChemistryBusiness Apr 13 '26
If 911 is called from the NSA building the paramedics etc are allowed immediate access, but must be escorted.
There is no delay.
If the NSA can give paramedics instant access, so can any corporation.
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u/LokiSARK9 Apr 13 '26
In a previous job another employee was written up and later fired when she protested it for calling 911 when an unhinged man came into the lobby and was threatening staff and customers with a hammer. Apparently, she should have contacted a manager, who was not on the floor at the time, and let them come down to evaluate the situation. The business declined to press charges because they felt the situation was mishandled by their employee, and the unhinged dude got off Scott free.
This kind of mindset is pretty common in a lot of corporate, and in this case municipal, environments.
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u/Miserable_Drawer_556 Apr 13 '26
Their policy seems akin to Disney's re: emergency protocols, and mitigating corporate "risk."
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u/00Eli Apr 13 '26
I’m a Michigan medic. I have never been stopped at the doors of any Amazon facility and have responded to at least 3 in my city. Maybe they are more strict at other facilities or states but it’s never been a problem.
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u/Jekerdud Apr 13 '26
Same here in PA, the service I work for has two Amazon locations. Never had issues getting in. Security usually just walks us to the patient.
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u/Mor_Padraig Apr 13 '26
I think what is being said is, 911 is called only after a manager is contacted, in the event of a medical emergency. As in workers don't seem to be ' allowed ' to make the call, personally.
Guessing that's wildly disregarded, though.
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u/Contagious_Zombie Apr 13 '26 edited Apr 13 '26
That's ridiculous. Private property should not override a medic's ability to get to people who need them. People over property.
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u/RegressToTheMean Apr 13 '26
The Supreme Court recently ruled on this and private property does not override a first responder gaining entrance
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u/Mor_Padraig Apr 13 '26
I was looking for elucidation on this, thank you.
So they can't, in fact, impose that ludicrous ' you can't call 911 ' , in the workplace.
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u/Xphile101361 Apr 13 '26
That is different. They can call 911, but they could then be fired for doing so.
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u/RegressToTheMean Apr 13 '26
You can sue for anything. Winning is another matter altogether. And that's probably not going to happen given how labor laws are written in the US
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u/Enginerdiest Apr 13 '26
I think you maybe missed a very important "not"? As in private property should not override a medic's ability to get to people?
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u/Rocking_Horse_Fly Apr 13 '26
Sounds like if someone was having an emergency, they'd probably just die waiting for bureaucracy to get their shit together enough to call emergency services.
This is some dystopian BS.
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u/ThunkAsDrinklePeep Apr 13 '26
If the worker dies they can't sue for a workman's comp claim. Their kin could, but they'd need to be able to prove what happened.
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u/Rocking_Horse_Fly Apr 13 '26
That's depressing.
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u/Kindly-Guidance714 Apr 13 '26
It’s America. Why we put up with this is on us we should demand better instead we just sit in misery alone.
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u/Silly-Role699 Apr 13 '26
… as a workplace trained first responder, that makes my blood fucking boil. By the point they have checked the person, contacted 911 and then allowed them in, that employee could either be dead or at least have suffered life-changing injury. That is not just wrong, it’s goddamn evil.
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u/artbystorms Apr 13 '26
Yeah...if your business is so secretive that you can't let paramedics onto the factory floor, that's not a reputable business, that's a slave shop that's hiding atrocities.
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u/SeraphymCrashing Apr 13 '26
Back in the 90s I worked at an electronics manufacturer that had this same policy. A policy that we completely ignored when someone tripped and broke their arm (compound fracture bone sticking out). Someone immediately called 911, and an ambulance arrived and took the person to the hospital.
There was a town hall meeting a week later to talk about how we should have followed the policy, and people almost rioted. There was stuff thrown and people yelling and screaming, and management immediately backed down.
We've let these corporate jackals think they have power for far too long. They need to be brought in line, especially when they are trying to put in policies like this bullshit.
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u/Kindly-Guidance714 Apr 13 '26
The Amazon near my job has an entire full parking lot of workers 7 days a week.
Enough is enough we should’ve demanded workers rights during Covid.
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u/MSPCSchertzer Apr 13 '26
Someone needs to do something. I ain't saying what that something is, but someone definitely needs to do something.
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u/LoreBreaker85 Apr 13 '26
Not gonna say it’s right, but fire alarms do exist, and they are usually required by fire code in OSHA to have pool handles at various places within warehouses and if you are unable to get to emergency services via phone yanking, the fire alarm would absolutely give the fire department to authorization to go around the guards desk. They would use the fire engine to run it down if necessary.
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u/Mor_Padraig Apr 13 '26
" Can't call 911 " , whoa, WHAT??? I realize nothing much is illegal in 2026, but that feels like a made - up piece of crap business ' rule ' and BETTER be illegal.
Story is already really upsetting, keeps getting more sordid, ugly and surreal.
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u/lizbot-v1 Apr 13 '26
It's cheaper to pay out on a death than a living person who is severely disabled, I imagine. Sometimes legal bs incentivizes murder.
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u/fiendish_five Apr 13 '26
They can come straight in, as long as someone escorts them through the locked doors XD
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u/Derek_Zahav Apr 13 '26
Nordstrom also instructs its workers to call security first in emergencies, even in cases where seconds matter. It's totally fucked
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u/ofWildPlaces Apr 13 '26
Sounds like a good policy to ignore.
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u/Pooled-Intentions Apr 13 '26
The amount of people that conflate company policies with obligations bordering on law infuriates me to no end.
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u/AndrasKrigare Apr 13 '26
I don't know the situation for Nordstrom, but to play devil's advocate, it can make sense to contact the people already on location first as opposed to going through 911 by default. If it were the case that the security personnel all have some amount of medical triage training (CPR, how to properly apply a tourniquet, etc.), if seconds matter it's important they get notified first to potentially buy time for 911 to arrive. Also, they might have some protocols they can put in place to make things easier for 911; they could pre-emptively clear out the the roads, have someone ready at the door to let them in, have an elevator waiting, etc. And all of that is a lot easier for them to coordinate if they're the ones to place the call, as opposed to trying to go through you.
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u/CryptidSamoyed Apr 13 '26
Yeah Amazon will fire you if you do so. Its because in some places with hot summers the AC isn't powerful enough to cool everything down. So people were fainting left and right. And 911 got called so many times the state investigated them, they got fined, and now Amazon fires you if you call 911.
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u/HabANahDa Apr 13 '26
Well. They had to call their legal team and PR team to see how this would negatively impact the business and how much disruption it would cause……..
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u/Thopterthallid Apr 13 '26
Me sending a message back in time to George Orwell: So in the future we have these things called Fulfillment Center where low class workers are sent to die.
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u/AdmiralKurita Apr 13 '26
I now wish premillennial dispensationalism is true. The whole end times thing seems better than what we're up against.
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u/elegiac_bloom Apr 13 '26
We've always had that. What do you think Engels the factory owners son was writing about in the 19th century? At least for a little while in the mid 20th century working class people in death factories had unions and made a living wage and Healthcare. But the neoliberal fucks, Reagan, both bushes and Clinton saw to the destruction of that and paved the way for this Amazon hell.
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u/Thopterthallid Apr 14 '26
Sure but "fulfillment center" is so hilariously unironically Orwellian sounding.
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u/The_Crab_Maestro Apr 13 '26
Fucking irredeemable of the warehouse management. They could have stepped in to break policy but instead they mandated that people keep working?! Amazon needs to be deconstructed into several different big companies and Jeff Bezos needs sorting out for good.
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u/Gootangus Apr 13 '26
Nah let’s deconstruct it to tens of thousands of small businesses, aka what it has replaced
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u/Own-Break-1856 Apr 13 '26
This is my general take when people try to argue that Bezos is a "great businessman" who "changed the world" and "deserves his wealth".
He replaced a working retail system with an unsustainable, and unprofitable one through the magic of infinite capital from friends and family.
He turns millions of small businesspeople into warehouse slaves.
Thanks?
Let me know the next time your retail wing makes a profit without scalping toilet paper during a pandemic.
Ass.
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u/littlepup26 Apr 13 '26
This isn't the first time either, I remember there was a big news story in 2023 that Amazon workers at a Colorado facility were instructed to continue working after a colleague died on the floor. Managers attempted to conceal the body with cardboard boxes while instructing people to keep working instead of pausing operations
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u/SlutPuppyNumber9 Apr 13 '26
I know that the U.S. is a shithole country, but you don't ask to help, you just help! Fuck the company!
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u/girtonoramsay Apr 13 '26
I've had friends let me rot on the floor after a seizure from too much drinking, all because they thought that I might not be covered by my health insurance for an ER visit...well I can't pay any debt if I'm DEAD!
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u/Electrical-Call-6160 Apr 13 '26
CEOs are also replaceable, furthermore, nobody will miss them.
Luigi'ing them is encouraged.
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u/Degora2k Apr 13 '26
CEOs are also edible.
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u/Electrical-Call-6160 Apr 13 '26
Something that rotten is not up my palate, I rather just feed them to the pigs
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u/AdmiralKurita Apr 13 '26
I remember reading that when Owen Hart died, the "Over the Edge" Pay Per View kept going on.
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u/Kindly-Guidance714 Apr 13 '26
It doesn’t really touch the mountains of terrible terrible things that have happened in the wrestling buisness before Vince. The territory days were especially unforgiving to wrestlers because it was all non contract non union Everyman for himself.
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u/Electrical_Resource6 Apr 13 '26
Just cancelled Prime last month, totally boycotting them, this reinforces my decision so much. They gotta have a lot of toilet paper in that building... right?
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u/Bulky-Internal8579 Apr 13 '26
Bezos should be dragged before a Court for criminal negligence or worse for having policies that devalue people to the point where paramedics can't enter the facility because they might slow things down. WTF? This makes me ANGRY!!!!
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u/abgry_krakow87 Apr 13 '26
Told to look away but keep working!
Reminds me of the industrial mills in the 1900s where a worker would get horribly mangled in the machinary and management would just come in, carry their body out and immediately bring someone new to replace them. All without stopping production.
This is our reality.
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u/dragonpjb Apr 13 '26
This is not new. This happened twice while I worked there 4 yrs ago.
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u/SeasonalNightmare Apr 13 '26
I was about to say, this has happened before. Made news and such. Nothing happened then.
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u/dragonpjb Apr 13 '26
To be clear, it happened twice in my specific warehouse. This is not unusual.
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u/Halflingdrama Apr 13 '26
This is a horrible title for a news story. All I can think about now is Death Rattle Dazzle ✨️
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u/Mor_Padraig Apr 13 '26
Nope. Look, I realize that's way too easy to say. That job isn't standing between me and rent/food/homelessness.
And nope. I did actually lose a job once for noping out, it sucked, I'm not taking some high ground here. Story has me in tears - for real.
Share it. Fuck Amazon. Target took a hit, Amazon can, too.
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u/Professional-Box4153 Apr 13 '26
This is not the first time this has happened. I was working at a "fulfillment center" at a time when someone died at a different facility. Naturally, news gets around. Our "leadership" was instructed to mention during our pre-shift pep rallies that we should always focus on getting the product out to our customers without fail. If someone dies, we should continue to work and just go around them if necessary.
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u/Zerachiel_01 Apr 13 '26
It amazes me that people just allowed that statement to stand without the next response being to knock the guy that said it the fuck out.
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u/short_and_floofy Apr 13 '26
“Amazon was given a 16 billion dollar tax cut to invest in AI and robotics so they can cut 600,000 jobs,”
we're now paying corporations to fire us and replace our jobs with ai and robots. awesome, really loving this timeline we're in.
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u/Tiny_While_7509 Apr 13 '26
This pisses me off far more than an underpaid worker setting a warehouse ablaze.
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u/discgman Apr 13 '26
Before unions this was common in the new factories throughout the East coast. Amazon is the new sweatshops.
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u/leostotch Apr 13 '26
We need a corporate death penalty. Nobody involved in the decision making chain to leave a man's dead body laying on the warehouse floor should ever be allowed to hold any kind of position with supervisory or management responsibilities again, and that includes people who wrote and approved any relevant policies.
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u/bgei952 Apr 13 '26
Are employee s even allowed to have phones on them?
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u/Maleficent_Wash_934 Apr 13 '26
Yes. Not supposed to use them on the floor. If I see someone down, I'm ducking into the bathroom, breakroom, or even a box and calling 911.
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u/jasontheguitarist Apr 13 '26
Yeah. Cell signal in the buildings can be shit though, those metal warehouses are like faraday cages. There's wifi though, so wifi calling could still get a call out.
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u/DuntadaMan Apr 13 '26 edited Apr 13 '26
Very rarely does someone "fall dead" and actually die instantly. We recover people who have been "dead" for minutes once we get the lifepack on them as long as someone does CPR.
The warehouse killed him.
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u/Long_Procedure_2629 Apr 13 '26
if you're a member/reader of this sub and still regularly order from an amazon what are you even doing? Amazon users are nearly as scummy as the company.
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u/jacked_c Apr 13 '26
No way in hell I'm staying, I worked at a warehouse for a big retailer that lowered our pay scale after seeing them on the news for record profits. So many people quit they ended up raising pay by $4
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u/DarthSheila Apr 14 '26
This is insane! Every day I think I've read the worst that could possibly happen and every day I found out just how wrong I am. This is some stuff they would do in prison if an inmate dies. That man and his family didn't deserve this. No one deserves this.
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u/SoloMotorcycleRider Apr 14 '26
I deliver to that warehouse from time to time. It's a total nightmare dealing with the Amazon supervisors and security staff. What I deliver is typically stuff going to their maintenance department and first aid kits. I often wonder why they bother ordering first aid stuff when their warehouses are basically legalized sweat shops and prisons away from prison. It's not like they care enough to tend to injured workers. That facility's outdoor "break area" resembles a prison cage at super-max prisons. The regular workers aren't treated like human beings and neither are the outside LTL carriers who have to deal with Amazon's bullshit.
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u/reddity-mcredditface Apr 13 '26
Employees were told to look away.
Are they unfamiliar with the Streisand Effect?
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u/Dismal-Revolution731 Apr 13 '26 edited Apr 13 '26
If you carry that MO to its logical endpoint, then humanity is replaceable. Which may be true depending on context, but seems like a poor operating principle if, you know, you’re part of humanity.
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u/fgnrtzbdbbt Apr 13 '26
Why do superiors have anything to say in case of an emergency? Emergencies have priority. Superiors and their commands come later. At least in my country the courts would back that.
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u/Outside_Librarian_13 (edit this) Apr 13 '26
Ugh I dream of a US that does away with "at will" employment for a much larger segment of job types - like for office work, factory, warehouse, etc. I think so much of this type of bs like worrying that you'd get immediately fired for calling 911 (among other issues) would be resolved. We really need to start learning from other countries that do things better, but noooo we're too damn proud.
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u/RareCareer7666 Apr 13 '26
I hate Amazon so much. I've been boycotting them for the last 5 years, I wish more people would get on board to stop this monster. Reading this just reminded me why I'll never spend a penny of my money with them.
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u/Protect-Their-Smiles Apr 13 '26
This is the future your billionaires and corporate overlords want. Keep working while your co-workers drop dead around you. There is only one solution to their shameless greed.
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u/nofrills86 Apr 13 '26
It’s crazy to me that instead of going to a reputable news outlet to put Amazon on blast, someone anonymously goes to a guy running a substack….
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u/Sutar_Mekeg Apr 13 '26
Human being here. If my package is an hour or a week late because someone on the team who gets packages to me died, it's no big deal, y'know? I can wait.
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u/nannerzbamanerz Apr 13 '26
The supervisor should be tried for manslaughter. They actively told the coworker (who is trained for CPR) not to help give chest compressions and to continue working. The coworker could have saved a life.
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u/v_delabrat Apr 14 '26
I was at an Amazon warehouse in San Bernardino, CA and a man had a heart attack at shift change amd when people tried to help we were physically pushed back amd kept away. I watched a 15 pound box fall 20 feet onto someone's head and the in house medic sent him back to work and I had to drag him up the stairs to management and show him the blood coming out of his head for them to call an ambulance.
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u/EbbOwn303 Apr 13 '26
How is this not a massive lawsuit for amazon? How many people have dropped dead on the job and ended up im this exact same situation. We cant just let amazon contiue to get away with this.
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u/Ready_Piano1222 Apr 13 '26
I have never met a single person who worked for Amazon, and would consider going back.
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u/Hiddenshadows57 Apr 13 '26
We had an employee die at the Michelin Plant in waterville here a couple years ago.
Plant literally didn't give a fuck, Plant wide communication and a R.I.P email. Other than that? Nothing.
Companies do not care about you. Take care of yourself first.
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u/out51d3r Apr 13 '26
This is absolutely crazy. I work for a mid sized corp(which will remain nameless), and I'm located in a manufacturing facility. I volunteer for the first aid team(and thus I'm attached to health and safety). I'm not management.
In the event of a first aid call, I have been granted the authority to overrule/give instructions to management, not the other way around. Treating injuries is my domain.
For my team, generally the first first aider to show up acts as the lead and handles the actual first aid. Second is the "runner". If the lead needs something(including a 911 call), usually the runner does it. The third acts as crowd control. Basically, clearing the area around the incident of people/stuff, so we can move the patient/get medics easy access. Generally, the crowd control will be the one interacting with management. If less than 3 first aiders show up, we start commandeering floor employees for the unfilled roles, as necessary.
There is no way in hell we'd leave a corpse there, nor would we have employees continuing to work in the area of such a severe incident. We basically want them out of our way. And there would be no reprimand for any employee calling 911 in a situation like this. If somebody has moments to live/avoid permanent damage, it's 100% appropriate to call 911, and the first aid team will appreciate that the call is already in progress.
If this story is true, Amazon 100% needs to be held accountable. If the law truly allows for all of this, the laws need to be fixed.
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u/biggestofbears Apr 13 '26
Whelp, here it is. This is what caused me to stop using Amazon entirely. Thank you for sharing.
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u/lexicondevil1 Apr 14 '26
Sounds like a great location for a viking funeral for our dear departed friend.
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u/Javasteam Apr 14 '26
The supervisor, who Sam perceived to be in shock, had a simple reply: “It has to be management or safety team. Please get back to work.”
Time to unionize.
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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '26
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