An Amazon exec is calling John Oliver’s depiction of conditions at the company’s shipping and warehouse facilities “insulting” to Amazon workers. Dave Clark, Amazon’s SVP of…
segment, Amazon, as well as other companies with quick online delivery systems, was lambasted for the exhausting chores required of the warehouse workers.
because they’re “the best at what they do, everybody tries to imitate them, and nobody who learns a third thing about them is happy they did.”The “third thing” was the chief subject of the segment, an extended look at the working conditions of Amazon’s warehousing and shipping facilities. One of the most devastating portions of the Last Week episode was Oliver’s mockery of an Amazon promotional video in which warehouse and shipping workers were depicted participating in fun and funny for-the-camera shenanigans. One woman was shown affectionately hugging an Amazon shipping box, a scenario recreated in a Last Week parody video in which the employee is repeatedly ordered to hug a box.
Clark’s statement, posted on his Twitter account yesterday, has, not surprisingly, given folks with opposing viewpoints, many self-identified as Amazon workers or former Amazon workers, the chance to speak up. One typical response to Clark’s statement reads, “A very privileged thing to say from your warm cozy office where manual labor doesn’t exist except to lift your finger when drinking your coffee.
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