For ppl who need the source here’s a guardian article
When I worked at Amazon a microwave fell from five layers up in the racking and broke the arm of an order picker.
They were an agency temp so Amazon called the agency to let him go and have another temp sent *before* they called an ambulance, when he tried to put in sick days they turned around and told him “Sorry you’d already been let go before the accident was logged anywhere”
I will kill every ceo
I will help
Please also read this Atlantic article (in partnership with Reveal) about the complete disregard for worker safety inside Amazon warehouses
When people choose not to buy via Amazon, it’s for reasons like this
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https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52504187
Tesla’s founder Elon Musk wiped $14bn off its value after tweeting its share price was too high in his opinion.
The tweet also knocked $3bn off Mr Musk’s own stake in Tesla as investors promptly bailed out of the company.
“Tesla stock price is too high imo,” he said, one of several tweets that included a vow to sell his possessions.
In other tweets, he said his girlfriend was mad at him, while another simply read: “Rage, rage against the dying of the light of consciousness.”
my man has won meltdown may on day 1
Capitalism sure is an economic system
On this day, 2 May 1933, the German Nazi government abolished all labour unions: police units occupied all trade union offices, union officials and leaders were arrested and union funds seized.
Strikes were then banned, and German workers saw their pay tumble over the next few years while the cost of living rose rapidly. The government also massaged unemployment figures, removing women from them, and conscripting unemployed people to the military.
Pictured: Nazis raiding union offices
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