That's actually not quite true.

Part of the reason Amazon is so desperate to automate those facilities (aside from the obvious of course) is because in some locals they have actually churned through the entire labor pool and are running out of people.

They will hire seasonal workers WITH the job listing, anyone with a pulse that passes a drug test is just in. I remember when I worked there it felt like an overworked Highschool.

Dehumanization is the point. The more people don't stop to look at tragedies, the more they won't question how such tragedies could have happened in the first place.

“Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work,” Sam recalled the manager saying.

If you read the whole conversation, you will become ill. It reads like an unbelievable dystopian novel.

Similar thing happened to my partner over a decade ago. He was working security at a casino, and a poker player keeled over at the table.

The ambulance wouldn't take the body, said they had to contact a private funeral home. The funeral home said they needed a coroner's permission, and the body wound up laying on the floor for several hours while it got sorted out.

They didn't shut down. They didn't even stop using the poker table he died at, people were still happily drinking and gambling with an uncovered body on the floor next to them.

Its fucked up.

OMFG

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. Within moments of the man hitting the floor, Sam said a woman ran over and began performing chest compressions. The woman began to cry and screamed out for someone to help her.

…

Sam, who has CPR training, asked her supervisor if she could assist. The supervisor watched the woman heaving her weight into the man’s chest and gave no response.

“I start sobbing and said, ‘I want to help, please!’ I know she’s going to get tired and need to be subbed out,” Sam told The Western Edge.

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.”

As I said elsewhere, recently, "I live in a clown town in a clown state in a clown nation of morally and financially bankrupt degenerates."

I hope this didn't happen at one of those flammable warehouses

“Truthfully, I now have even less respect for our leadership team than I did before, which I didn’t know was possible,” RJ said.

Sam's manger needs to be locked up in a jail cell, long with rest of management. I would of ignored my manager and gone to help. What fuck! In all the years I did warehouse I only had one worker who died on the job. My side was no where near where it happen. Hell we were in a building across the street. They still had us all stop working until ambulance came and took the worker away.

time to replace Bezos the Clown with AI

It's like a smaller scaled American Culture.

The population must be desensitized in order to make way for a dystopian society, that's why assholes get managing positions, because they will always put the company and profits first, then everything else and then the people if they even bother to at least put personnel on the bottom of their priorities.

Management gotta go.

I haven't logged into my account at Amazon for almost ten years.

It's a horrible company, and we're continually reminded of that by stories like this one. But, people keep shopping there in spite of there being plenty of alternatives. And, they'll make many excuses to do so.

“Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work,” Sam recalled the manager saying.

My daughter in law worked at that facility for a year as a manager and noted multiple OSHA violations. Doesn't sound like much changed...