Lazy Amazon workers, my ass

Monday's "Nightly Show" had Larry Wilmore and guests discussing the Amazon workplace story, and calling Amazon employees wimpy and lazy.

Hey, assholes on TV, with your makeup department and  bottled water, try this:

You get paid $11.50 an hour to stand on your feet for 10 or more hours, having to ask permission to take a bathroom break, with computers tracking your every move, every moment. Your supervisor's got a metrics chart that shows how much work everybody should do (the person who made that chart has never done your job). If you complain, the guy standing next to you on the packing line gets a reward for ratting you out.

The "fulfillment center's" AC is broken and it is 98 degrees outside, meaning it's 120 inside. You're breathing diesel fumes from the forklifts.

No talking, no music, no laughing, or you're fired.

And when your shift is finally over, it takes you more than an hour to get out of the building, because management is doing searches that barely stop at cavity probes, because they're so paranoid about stuff being stolen.

When you wipe your ass with that delivered-in-an-hour toilet paper, remember that the person who fetched it off the shelf and put it in the box was treated no better than a sweatshop worker in China.

Amazon had to move its warehouse 45 miles, from Fernley, Nevada, to Reno, because they couldn't find wage-slaves to work there any more. They poisoned the work-force pool.

If the employees in Amazon white-collar jobs bitch about the horrid place to work, they should be bused to a "fulfillment center." Paper-pushers don't know what work is.

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