jmothecat Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 Workers in Scotland working under oppressive conditions according to this Guardian report. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/11/amazon-accused-of-intolerable-conditions-at-scottish-warehouse Anyone work there? It seems, anecdotally at least, that large companies are exploiting increasingly non-unionised workers and breaking employment law. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppino Impastato Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 Ach well, at least during their 13 years in power labour reversed all the damage done to unions by thatcher through legislation to restore rights and protections. Oh that's right they didn't reverse a single bit of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob the tank Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 Workers in Scotland working under oppressive conditions according to this Guardian report.https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/11/amazon-accused-of-intolerable-conditions-at-scottish-warehouseAnyone work there? It seems, anecdotally at least, that large companies are exploiting increasingly non-unionised workers and breaking employment law. I know a guy who got a job there when he was waiting for a placement as security/protection in Afghanistan. This boy was super fit and he even struggled to fulfil his "picking quotas" for his shift Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ginger Prince Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 Workers in Scotland working under oppressive conditions according to this Guardian report.https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/11/amazon-accused-of-intolerable-conditions-at-scottish-warehouseAnyone work there? It seems, anecdotally at least, that large companies are exploiting increasingly non-unionised workers and breaking employment law. One of the companies praised to the high heavens for its customer service though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 Misread the thread title as "Amazon Whorehouse" so was disappointed.My uncle works for them. The warehouse, not the whorehouse. And in England, not Scotland. It sounds like my idea of Hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaffenThinMint Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 The Guardian recycles a Daily Mail story from the previous week and hasn't even the guts to admit it (The Courier lifted it from the Daily Blackshirt). Panorama hung Amazon out three Christmases ago - nothing changed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinkinFighter Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 Worked with a woman who's son worked at the dunfermline warehouse. He seemed to like that there was always wads of overtime on offer, no mention of the poor conditions, must have been lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 12 minutes ago, LinkinFighter said: Worked with a woman who's son worked at the dunfermline warehouse. He seemed to like that there was always wads of overtime on offer, no mention of the poor conditions, must have been lucky. Yeah my neighbours son gets some shifts there over the xmas period and this is his 4th year in a row so cant be all that bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 I'm in there. Gourock anyways. The stuff in the Guardian article isn't too wide of the mark and a better one than the Daily Mail basically lying. Even though it's a different site, much of it crosses over. Don't deal with actual picking these days as much as I used to as I've wound up doing lazy b*****d stare at screen stuff but I do still go out when on overtime and the targets are still piss easy. And I'm not fit by any stretch. The Gourock site is MUCH smaller though so probably makes life a bit easier. Many folk can hit the targets on all of the jobs. Many can't. Many don't even want to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 Meant to mention much of the worst stuff about it doesn't have a massive effect on me so I've always been happy enough. But it's not exactly hard to see why some folk aren't happy there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romeo Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 I don't give a flying f**k about their working conditions. I wan't my stuff cheaply and delivered the next day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjw Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 Hiya Mike Ashley, hiya pal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dipped Flake Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 One of my pals works there and seems to really enjoy it. Mind you, he is up the chain a bit from the warehouse floor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 Fukin Westminster again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 Have heard it's dreadful. Nearly worked there myself a few years back (luckily never did so). @GordieBoy80 worked there I believe and has some stories... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin_Nevis Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 Is it any worse than other minimum wage jobs? Eg care homes etc? If there wasn't an SNP angle here, Willie Rennie wouldn't have been seen with a fucking mile of this issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparky88 Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 The Guardian Media Group probably needs to get its own house in order before writing these righteous articles tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 It's hardly Amazon's responsibility if some of their worker want to live like Stig of the dump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 20 hours ago, jupe1407 said: Is it any worse than other minimum wage jobs? Eg care homes etc? If there wasn't an SNP angle here, Willie Rennie wouldn't have been seen with a fucking mile of this issue. Seems their ethos is quite explicitly callous and "survival of the fittest" stuff. Remember this article doing the rounds http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-in-a-bruising-workplace.html?_r=0 and while much of the shock seemed to equate to "even the white collar workers aren't safe from harsh working conditions!!" it's quite interesting. Absolutely dyno customer service though as someone else has said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbornbairn Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 Thought this was going to be about bargains. Disappointed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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