Name: The Treatment of Amazon Warehouse Workers
Uploaded: 2021-06-16T17:49:22.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Treatment of Amazon Warehouse Workers' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-06-16. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Treatment of Amazon Warehouse Workers' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-06-16. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience the country is not about anything other than money I
mean we just abandoned every value other than profit maximization and the
bottom
line that's what people need to understand about all this woke shit yes
it's really not about changing culture it's about money I mean that's it's
about power you know it's just like it's funny there's a big article in New
York
Times today about inside an Amazon warehouse right and Amazon was the first
to say black lives matter and put that a banner up on their page and everything
and look I support a lot of goals of that movement but you read through this
article and you find out first of all the way they treat they're largely black
and
brown warehouse workers I mean it's despicable they intentionally make sure
they cannot move up the ladder but that's part of their business policy is if
you're an hourly worker you're not gonna get promoted and they try to force you
out after three years because they think you're getting lazy so this is the
company that can the surface level say black lives matter because they think
that's good for their profit maximization and their brand and their shareholder
value at the same time what they're actually doing in real life wildly
different
than that so and they specifically target black and brown people well they
target their warehouse workers who are so the warehouse workers are fifty some
percent black and brown management is fifty some is overwhelmingly white and
Asian what is I
I thought the whole thing about Amazon was that you could move up the ladder
Walmart who I'm also not a fan of they actually promote from within so most
Walmart managers start out as hourly employees so at least they have a track
up and again I'm not a fan of Walmart okay Amazon intentionally and this is
what the
New York Times revealed they intentionally have a system because Bezos said he
believes that these human beings are lazy and that after you know that they're
gonna
do the bare minimum
he was quoted saying this? Bezos was quoted saying they're lazy?
or Jamie if you can fold it up
I think there's a difference between lazy and having a shitty job
people need to understand that and you're abused you're treated like a robot
and a cog day in and day out you're fired like if you are a little bit slow on
your task you might
get fired by a freaking app like that's how dehumanizing it is
let's explain to people don't understand how it works over there does anybody
want yeah I mean they work in the warehouse right so they have phones that are
on there everyone's tracking your movement steps bathroom breaks as well so the
warehouses are also very large so let's say you technically have a 20 minute
break it might take you 10 minutes to actually walk to the break room and
back so you actually have what like a two minute break while you're in there
and the whole thing around Amazon and why everyone should care is because
Amazon under the pandemic exploded their stock price went up from I think 1000
or so to a couple 3000 Bezos personally his wealth increased by 70 billion
dollars Amazon is now the second largest employer in the United States and this
is incredibly important because as more Amazon market adoption happens they are
basically going to become the employer of choice
whatever your grocery store or whatever was in your small town these are the
rural working class Americans this is their only job so when you have one
company which has all of this overwhelming power over rural working Americans
and even suburban Americans because this is Amazon strategy Dayton Ohio is a
good example Alec McGillis he wrote a great book on Amazon shout out to him
talked about how Dayton was like this Silicon Valley of America in the 1900s
and you know manufacturing middle-class
jobs now Dayton's prized economic value comes from the fact that it's one day's
drive from one-third of the US population so it's a great place for cardboard
so everybody there is all just involved in creating cardboard and other Amazon
infrastructure so the Amazonification so to speak or whatever of America makes
it so that if let's say 30 years ago you grew up in your town you may have to
go to Walmart H-E-B we're here you know I grew up here in Texas Kroger as well
McDonald's something
like that now it's basically like McDonald's dairy queen and Amazon and when
Amazon is the prime market employer they are the sole determiner of market
conditions increasingly so it's Walmart and Amazon which are number two and we're
talking about millions of people who are now working at this company so people
are like why do you guys talk so much about Amazon because I can see the trends
this company's not going anywhere look props to them like they're I love Amazon
like I order a lot of stuff on Amazon but increasingly becoming aware of the
price of what it
takes to do overnight delivery to your house at 4 a.m. in the morning or
increasingly becoming aware of the fact that they are basically on this mission
to drive price down as much as possible and squeeze as much out of their
workforce that is where it's trouble what was the furniture thing that we just
covered yeah this is crazy well and did you see their delivery drivers have so
are so like the the demands are so intense they're having a pee in bottles and
shit in bags right and they admit shit in bags early yeah that's where I draw
the line I don't really care if I
a guy has to pee in a bottle but if a gal has to pee in like a dog bowl I'm
like this seems
yeah and this happened publicly I would like to click the button that's like I'll
pay a little bit more if you can promise me no driver had to shit in a bag in
order to get this to me tomorrow we kind of glossed over this thing where you
said that Jeff Bezos said that people are lazy so here's what the New York
Times says Amazon's founder Jeff Bezos did not want hourly workers to stick
around for long viewing a large disgruntled workforce as a threat
this other executive recalled who worked at Amazon but then left company data
showed that most employers became less eager over time he said and Mr. Bezos
believed people were inherently lazy what he would say is that our nature as
humans is to expend as little energy as possible to get what we want or need
that was embedded throughout the business from the ease of instant ordering to
the pervasive use of data to get the most out of employees so guaranteed wage
increases stop after three years and Amazon provided incentives for low skilled
employees to leave so every year they
they would offer associates thousands of dollars to resign they made sure that
any position they gave people sort of the illusion of promotions being
available but then there'd be one promotion available for hundreds of people
and they very seldom
um higher or higher management from within their own ranks it's like they view
us it's totally class stratified is basically the bottom line and of course
lower classes in America are disproportionately black and brown it's not like
they're specifically targeting black
black and brown people but you have one class of people but you have one class
of people that they see that is worthy of doing the grunt work and shitting in
the bag and one class of people that they think of is worthy of like actually
having the the more intellectual jobs and running the place it's you know it's
a really abhorrent way of viewing human beings essentially and so this is part
of the kind of again rot of America that I also think is reflected with the
John Cena thing etc it's like you're certainly more of a capitalist than I am
but you can't have a country where the only freaking value is money
like that's it's just it's just you you see the sickness of people who have all
these addictions and are last year was the worst year on record for overdose
death you see the suicide rate spike I mean you see people who just feel like
they have no meaning and no purpose and no grounding and no community and all
the life being sucked out of these human beings in these communities it's just
disgusting
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