What is a request for time off? I am informing you I will not be there. There is no request.
Request denied. We are informing you that should you choose to ignore your contractual obligations by neglecting to perform, we will be forced to recover any potential damages because of your actions through binding arbitration. We thank you for being part of the Amazon family and your continued dedication to our family.
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I was just laughing at the absurdity in robocop rouge city where a corporate announcement says “reminder, a gunshot wound is no longer basis for time off unless it requires overnight hospitalization…”
We’re burning the wrong Amazon
Seeing things like this I find it weird there aren’t more Mario bros around in the US.
He was an oddity in America. Most Americans don’t have the ability to go from keyboard to action.
They can barely muster enough oxygen to make the thought they need to write down in the first place. America is a bizarre place.
Sadly reminds me of Wall-E in some way.
I found Wall-E more disturbing than most post-apocalyptic movies. Felt too real
An Amazon spokesperson told HuffPost on Friday that the denial was due to an error in Scott-Windham’s time off request and said she has the company’s “full support.”
What sort of reasonable “error” could possibly deny something like this?
I don’t know how Amazon works but I imagine it’s some sort of form submission and she chose the wrong option.
Don’t think that makes it okay, time off requests should be considered by a human who actually interacts with the employee, in my opinion, but I can see it happening. Dealt with that when I worked for Walmart. I definitely got a few days off that I submitted through the automated system online and have no idea if anyone ever approved.
My entire impression of HR at amazon warehouses is HR is there to onboard new hires and occasionally act as an equivalent to t1 tech support. You go to the amazon worker subreddit and about half the posts talking about a problem have comments like ‘yeah just call corporate HR they’ll fix it’ because onsite HR fucked something up.
edit: Also worth noting, that same subreddit is pointing out that medical leave of absence is always approved by default with 30 days to provide proof so yeah she probably put in for the wrong type of leave.
Most people who have worked at an amazon warehouse will tell you the same story: yes amazon sucks, no not for that reason in the news. Amazon was the 2nd best warehouse I’ve worked at, but that’s more a condemnation of the industry than praise for amazon.
Despite lemmy thinking CEOs are useless, they’re usually the most important person in the company because they set the tone. That tone rolls downhill. Show me happy or sad employees, I’ll tell you what kind of leadership they have.
Bezos set the grind culture when Amazon was starting, and that’s fine for a startup, what has to be done. But he never backed off, and now we get shit like this, 100% on him.
Sometimes you have to grind at a shit job to work your way up, I get it. But there appears to be no level at Amazon where you’re not under the gun.
But why should anyone have to grind at a shit job? If your business can only survive by grinding people down, maybe society would be better off without it. If the only way we can get same day delivery is over the burnt-out, permanently injured ex-employees of a multi-national, is it really worth it? Maybe that start-up never should have made it. Maybe strong labor laws should have forced them to scale back their ambitions or close their doors.
I don’t wanna just say “this”, but for real, excellently put.
“But we just have to abuse people for a little while until…”
Then it’s not a viable business model. Easy as that.
Cooperatives are a thing, and they work, they just don’t scale like cancer by generating hype-funding over destroying their employees, so they don’t drum up so much excitement from the moneyed.
