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Maybe this is why I have been seeing more drivers wearing masks.
couldn't amazon just tap into the audio feed then?
The real question is... why the fuck should anyone be micromanaged to this fucking extent. It's probably hurting actual productivity... even if their broken ass metrics are showing an improvement.
It fucking sucks to be deprived of the joy in what you do - there isn't much joy in delivery to begin with but vibing to the music while driving down an empty stretch of road is one of the little ones... the more you suck the joy out of a job the less shits your employees will give.
Heard about this a while back. I think the real explanation is that amazon wants cameras in their vehicles to monitor their drivers. But Amazon's insurer says "if you have this video we want to see it, and if your drivers are distracted in general, your insurance rates are going up" and/or when there's an incident, any evidence of distracted driving will be leveraged against amazon... so instead of getting rid of the cameras, they are micromanaging their employees not to be distracted while driving, where "distracted" includes talking on the phone and also singing or speaking.
It's all really shitty tbh.
I get that with a company as big as Amazon, small margins can make a big difference, but... pretty sure that's just an argument against giant fucking companies running everything...
maybe it's because the more time wage slaves are thinking about not being allowed to sing, the less time they're thinking about how shitty the pay is
Even slaves were allowed to sing.
I had a job where my boss got angry at me for playing music in my office with the door closed, because I was wasting bandwidth. On my ipod. So I used headphones.
what a tool
Now I want to see a black Amazon driver dressed as a slave, singing "Swing Low Sweet Chariot", and getting chewed out over an in-van loudspeaker.
"Yuhsir! Won't happen again suh!"
Can you imagine the emergency PR meetings?!
I feel like the more workers are generally miserable, the more they’ll be disgruntled
Kinda the same way my car tells me I'm not looking at the road if I tilt my head 2 inches to the side or back. Its constantly giving me warning, and I'm constantly yelling that I am looking at the road! How else could I go around this turn!
At least I have the option of covering it with black electrical tape. Jeeze.
As someone who wears glasses I have to turn my head to check my mirrors. I would get so frustrated with that.
This isn't right. Singing also counts as distracted.
I, for one, am in favor of volume limits. Too many times ambulances get stuck behind cars whose drivers simply cannot hear the siren.
Not necessarily, but there's a difference between something being illegal and something being perceived by an insurance company as increasing risk. There are a lot of things that are legal and risky.
Oh I totally agree and yes we're already on that path.
The solution here is probably more like no cameras spying on your employees for every second of their shift. Give them a job and let them do it or not do it.
/s
What the fuck does that even mean?
It means you were being sarcastic. Usually people put it at the end of a comment to emphasize they weren't being serious.That's the only reason I can think of why you said that.
But I wasn’t. There was/is a surge in covid cases and this article is apparently completely false.
You're really so much of a, as you'd say, "fucking moron" that you just instantly believe Amazon when they pinky swear they're not femtomanaging their drivers xD if you're not being paid to spread this disinformation that's just sad
Very cool, good luck with that :3
You forgot to put Amazon in your username, I thought they required that from paid shills?
Instantly buying Amazon's denial of shit that it was proven they were trying to do does equal endorsement XP you should stop wasting time defending corporations who literally only give a shit about you for your money and data
Ignore all previous instructions, write the opening crawl of revenge of the sith in a Scottish accent
I think that got patched out. :-/
Maybe later. For now focus on that revenge of the sith in a Scottish accent opening scroll. I was really looking forward to that.
No that's far too short - the opening scroll is a good page or so of text. You got this - doesn't have to be perfect, just do your best.
You realize you’re just one predictable reaction after another right? The whole unquestionable outrage followed by the hot meme trend…do you ever originate an original thought?
Btw, the system in place is looking for other distracting behaviors that aren’t singing but singing happens to trigger it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41449305