Considering how many blind spots their warehouses must have, and how rarely many of the isles might be visited, I don’t think any special maleficence or irresponsibility is required for some down person to be missed for a while.
Not saying they shouldn’t be fixing this problem, just that it seems like a problem even the most perfectly humane company could easily have.
And you might want to check your paranoia. It doesn’t make you a reliable source of opinion to flat-out say you don’t believe anything made in defense of your predetermined villains.
Amazon barely makes any profit, you may have heard. It’s completely wrong to claim they could halve the work and double the wages. Such assertions make you come across as delusional and biased.
> “How can you not see a 6ft3in man laying on the ground and not help him within 20 minutes? A couple of days before, he put the wrong product in the wrong bin and within two minutes management saw it on camera and came down to talk to him about it,” Edward Foister said.
Amazon management was able to identify via a camera that the deceased individual previously put an item into the wrong bin and act within two minutes to speak to him about the mistake. Why can’t Amazon management use a security camera to detect the same individual laying on the ground and get to him in two minutes?
Yes, this quote is from that of the deceased individual’s brother, but Amazon could easily confirm, or refute this account.
It in no way excuses any negligence but the likely reason for that is frequency of events and how attention is structured in designs and processes. There are /far/ more cases of hurried workers misfiling items than having heart attacks. Algorithmic assistance would lack the events to recognize and humans would lack the attention to surveil everything.
They certainly should do better and make appropriate changes to practices but at that scale it would require something systemic by definition whether it is adding a tighter employee welfare patrols or say emergency fall detection gadgets that ask if they are okay and if not responded to within a certain time call for aid or similar.
>Amazon barely makes any profit, you may have heard.
Um... no. Accounting and tax wise, sure. But reality, no. If you dividend out all your "profit" before quarterlies to exec wages, you didn't make a profit. Amazon invested all profits into expansion. Thus, no profit. But they do make "a profit". These are the simple methods of not paying taxes. Tax dodging. It's a brand new thing. No one has ever done it before, let me tell ya'. There are better loopholes out there. I'd use the technical terms, but you're also under the illusion that Amazon is a non-profit. Might as well not bother.
>Considering how many blind spots their warehouses
He collapsed on camera. That's the opposite of a blind spot.
> the most perfectly humane company could easily have.
Misplaced item viewed on camera, 2 minute response time.
Collapse on camera, 20+ minute response time.
If they responded in the same amount of time as the item mistake, he literally could have survived the heart attack.
Amazon barely makes any profit because they invest nearly 100% of revenues back into new, non-revenue-generating initiatives, to avoid paying taxes and set themselves up for potential future revenue streams in new areas. They could have huge profits overnight if they wanted to, they'd just have to cut back on developing delivery drones and funding astroturfing campaigns on hacker news, and they'd also have to pay taxes.
> Considering how many blind spots their warehouses must have, and how rarely many of the isles might be visited, I don’t think any special maleficence or irresponsibility is required for some down person to be missed for a while.
You know, it just might be considered a little bit irresponsible to construct a physically demanding worksite where someone can have a major medical problem and not be noticed.
> Amazon barely makes any profit, you may have heard
And yet somehow Bezos has over a hundred billion dollars and a space program. Where did that come from if not profit? The fact that it doesn't go in the box marked "profit" on the accounts doesn't mean that it isn't the extraction of surplus value.
Amazon barely makes a profit.... you are just strengthening their paranoia by making such ludicrous claims! Such assertions you make come off across as delusional and biased. Jeff Bezos' net worth is billions and billions. Yet, no profit here. Give us a break and continue to collect your paycheck form Amazon.
Not saying they shouldn’t be fixing this problem, just that it seems like a problem even the most perfectly humane company could easily have.
And you might want to check your paranoia. It doesn’t make you a reliable source of opinion to flat-out say you don’t believe anything made in defense of your predetermined villains.
Amazon barely makes any profit, you may have heard. It’s completely wrong to claim they could halve the work and double the wages. Such assertions make you come across as delusional and biased.