Amazon workers face 'increased risk of mental illness'

When Mr Littler worked night shifts his pay rose from the daily rate of £6.50 per hour to £8.25 per hour.
Amazon UK parcel Amazon said the safety of its employees was its "number one priority"

After experiencing a ten-and-a-half-hour night shift, he said: "I managed to walk or hobble nearly 11 miles, just short of 11 miles last night. I'm absolutely shattered. My feet are the thing that are bothering me the most to be honest.

whats up with the one star bandit these days

Don't buy from Amazon. That's it for me.

so NOW the fkn shrinks are saying "hard work" will result in mental illness??

hey.....look at the time.....its a quarter to.....GTFO !!!

At 6yrs old I was in a field for 8 hours when I was young so yes we are in a generation of spoiled, lazy people

Same goes for UPS and the like. We had some guy going undercover in package delivery business here 2-3 years ago.
Its capitalism stupid.

Well, yes, you have to work to make money.

Do the work and enjoy the money.

My wife works at Amazon. Started as a picker and moved to a packer position.
She loves her job and hasn't complained at all. The people who complain are the fat, lazy and unmotivated folks that prefer to live on welfare.

Half the stuff I posses is from amazon. Without it, I'd be living in an empty apartment.

Forgot to mention... Amazon is not nearly as busy as anticipated. My wife has been offered VTO "Voluntary Time Off" almost every day for the last couple months. She started as a temp and was hired-on as a fulltime Amazon employee.

It's not a bad place to work if you don't mind doing actual "work".
Too many lazy people expect to sit at home or at a desk and collect a paycheck without actually putting forth effort and labor.

^^^ Yes, always has been that way!

Running around an 18 acre facility like a rat in a maze with a machine beeping at you when you don't preform. Wow. It's a miracle there isn't a workplace shooting per day.

Well if he is walking 11 miles per day to and from work that might add to the being tired.

here we have food distributors that work in the same manner, there you get a base wage but the more orders you pull the more you make. some of the order pickers make like 16-21.00 an hour. no joke.

I thpught the news would be about the exploited gold diggers of Amazon jungles but it was just mail men going postal

I never buy from Amazon...this article cinches it for me never to either. How sad to live this way. One day they probably will be replaced by robots.

Sounds like a reality show for weight loss.

How exactly would you handle this.Since the place is huge and there are thousands upon thousands of orders.What system would you use.A note pad with a list on it maybe.we should all get our order in about 3 years I would guess.

Of course, it's made worse by this song playing 24/7.

The scanner is so you dipshits don't pick the blue one instead of the black one. With that many products it would be impossible without a scanner.

And who wants to hire someone who is going to take 10 minutes + to fill an order when most others will do it in a couple of minutes? This article is a JOKE.

Oh NO, you had to walk at your job? And you get three day weekends, darn!

I work in construction making residential high rises, last week the elevator was down and I had to climb (and descend) a total of 144 stories. There are 24 stories and did that 6 times with 20 stairs per story, making 2880 stairs UP and DOWN carrying heavy materials.

This doesn't even include the 10 Km I walk in -30°C to get to work at 5:00am, or the actual walking on each individual floor. Easily hitting 11 miles (~17.6 Km) horizontally with a massive vertical climb to boot.

Its work you dolts. Fucking whiny lazy cheap fat idiots always finding something to complain about. Your working, count your blessings.

the conditions are the same in every industry that utilizes pickers/orderfillers; some companies are actually a lot worse

grocery, dry goods, alcohol - you name it

here in Maine we have a company called Country Kitchen whose order fillers work five mandatory 16-hour shifts ever week. it's back-breaking physical labor but they pay $16 an hour.

walmart distribution center, here in maine and throughout the US, uses these automated headsets that have pick timers as well. most of their locations only require four 10-hour shifts or three 12-hour shifts though. walmart actually starts at $14 an hour with incentives that can take you up to $18 an hour over a couple years.

bread and liquor are perhaps the worst industries to work for when it comes to picking. these industries are almost always a flat $10 or $12 an hour with mandatory overtime. they're definitely shit jobs

Micromanagement destroys inner motivation and replaces it with constant fear.
My last job began quite open as an independent contractor and then a new manager began this harrassment which felt like a bill collector. 25 emails per week, unnecessary phone calls, rate of pay associated with a scheduled time commitment marrying a person to availability when there was no business (so you couldn't do anything with your unpaid time), pressure to self-promote...all legally keeping them from employer responsibility.
He was eventually fired for withholding business to certain "non-cooperators"
but I went 4 years with only 2 weeks off total up to 70 hours per week as my pay decreased (for non-cooperation).
Then again I never did too well taking unreasonable orders in the workplace. But one day I looked in the mirror and saw how gray-faced I'd become.
This was all to stay at home to be there to raise my son.

Once there was a family fondness in the workplace that was mutually supportive.
Now most workplaces are just barbaric.

I to am guilty

Thanks for pin

probably an amazon worker

Working long hours on your feet is hard work but I've had those jobs and you typically know what your in for when you become an employee. I'm not afraid of hard work. The beeping scanner is a little over the top though. Humans are more than capable of monitoring themselves. I'm not sure it would increase mental illness. I think that is a bit too much. If people cannot handle the long hours, hard work and stress than they need to go find a desk job. Not everyone is capable of handling a physical job like that.

The young and the feckless

This laziness dynamic, to the extent it is present, seems to affect the young rather than the old, men more than women, and the uneducated more than the educated. The overall drop in the men's labor participation rate -- the number of American men who have jobs or are actively looking for one -- is shown in the chart below. It's fallen to near 70%.

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