Miserly Amazon bosses reacted to the Sunday Mirror’s investigation into its shocking working conditions – by giving out tiny chocolates.
Staff on gruelling 10-and-a-half-hour shifts were given one Celebration sweet in the first half of their day and another in the second half.
The bizarre gesture is revealed by former employee Neil Drinkwater – who quit after his partner read our exposé and realised for the first time what he had been enduring.
We told last week of exhausted warehouse staff falling asleep on their feet as they chased impossible targets.
And the five-week investigation led to a widespread backlash against the £7.3billion-a-year online giant.
He told us: “This week our managers started coming round with a box of Celebrations for the first part of the shift, and gave us a chocolate each.
“Then they did the same at the second part of the shift. Me and my colleagues all thought it was an insult.”
Their boss, American Jeff Bezos, 53, is the world’s richest man. Like Neil, he is a dad of four. Last year he made £2.2million an hour.
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This might be palatable if the chocolates were wrapped...in $100 bills!
ReplyDeleteAmazon is intelligence.
ReplyDeleteBeos is an asset. Chosen to play a role.
Govt will force it to Break Up if it gets too Big (Monopoly)
ReplyDeleteThey were after Bill Gates & Microsoft !!
This is the problem when you can't respect the people under you. Instead of treating them better and paying good wages they make them slaves and use them as tool's for their profits.
ReplyDelete2.2 million per hour. That's 4.5 Trillion a year at a 40 hour work week.
ReplyDeleteAmazon employs 350,000 employees. Cut his pay by 1 million per hour, that's about $2.85 raise per hour for everyone that works for the company, and he STILL MAKES 2.25 TRILLION per year.
This system is just so broken. How does it get to this? Income inequity is insane. I think of myself as Conservative, and a capitalist... but this is just crazy!