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Amazon worker dies on warehouse floor. Workers told to keep going

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58 pointslatexr27 comments

Lets hope the lawyers for the poor person's family and the workers forced to keep working are very good at their job.

Why do I get the feeling Bezos will try to lobby to have the law allow Amazon to harvest dead employees’ organs and sell them for profit if they die in a warehouse?

Logical extension of standard business mentality, if you’re honest enough.

While we're not there yet and it's not a self-fulfilling prophecy, dead peasant insurance exists so it's possible that Amazon immediately cashed in on this worker's terrible death.

I expect to be working until I’m dead also

How much do you have set aside for a service or burial or cremation? It came up during an argument recently with a family member, so if your outlook is that bleak, try not to shuffle off this mortal coil and leave us in the hole to put you in one. Please.

Just throw me in the trash

That is not a viable solution in the United States. Perhaps you live in India or Brazil where such solutions are legal? If not, when are you moving to such a country?

> That is not a viable solution in the United States

I saw a documentary on Discovery Channel, about 20 years ago when this channel still had something to offer, about New York mafia, where they stated that the New York mafia threw their victims in the garbage.

What would I care though? I'll be dead!

It's a joke from the show Always Sunny

Cremate me and flush me down the toilet, or turn me into pebbles--

https://www.core77.com/posts/109631/Better-UX-for-Cremation-...

well hopefully I’ll have enough squirreled away by then if life insurance won’t pay out

Amazon employs around 900,000 people in logistics. The crude annual mortality rate in the USA is around 911/100,000. If there are 900,000 employees working eight hours a day then around seven people a day are dying of natural causes on their shift. This is without considering that they are being worked to the bone.

>>> .00911 * (8 / (24 * 365)) * 900000 = 7.487671232876712

And making people continue to work when their coworker just died on the floor is nonetheless inhumane

Sounds like something out of a dystopian movie

You have a deadline. /s

This only works if you assuming the mortality rates are evenly distributed. Most of the people who die are not working right until the end—and the conditions which lead to them dying usually aren’t compatible with a demanding job.

You are correct that it is a rough estimate but my point stands. While most of us will never experience the shock of someone dying at work, it is an every day occurrence at the scale of Amazon.

You have provided no evidence supporting that belief and brushing aside the obvious challenges makes it hard to believe you have done the math. I’d also note that if this was actually true, it would be more surprising that they didn’t have a policy for dealing with it and had to improvise on the fly.

The utter contempt you express for human life is abhorrent. Cloaking it in math only exacerbates your cruel disregard for, well, lacking shame in expressing such mental illness in public. I’d recommend therapy but you probably have a formula to justify not going to that either. Disgusting.

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