CBS: Amazon apologized for disputing a lawmaker’s claim that its workers urinate in bottles, admitting in a Friday blog post that it was “incorrect” to deny the report. The online retailer said the issue affects drivers, not employees in its many warehouses across the U.S.

Questions about whether Amazon workers operating under severe time constraints sometimes resort to urinating in bottles surfaced in a 2018 book by British journalist James Bloodworth, who went undercover to briefly work at an Amazon warehouse in documenting the hardship of low-wage work in the U.K. In his account, he came across what appeared like a bottle of urine hidden on a warehouse shelf, which he assumed was one worker’s solution to the difficulty of squeezing in bathroom breaks at the massive facility. 

Until its apology, Amazon had refuted such accounts entirely. “You don’t really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you? If that were true, nobody would work for us,” the company’s Amazon News account tweeted on March 24 in response to criticism from Rep. Mark Pocan that the online behemoth wasn’t enlightened in its workplace practices just because it offered a minimum wage of $15 an hour.

The problem with social media is sometimes it works.  If Amazon doesn’t deny the claims of employee abuse in James Bloodsworth’s book, they wouldn’t be looking at these piss-filled bottles Amazon employees posted all over Twitter, IG, and Redditt.

Source: The news was widely discussed on Reddit, reaching the front page of the /r/technology^[3] and the /r/worldnews^[4] subreddits. On April 16th, Redditor OhMyGloob posted an article about the report in the /r/technology subreddit, whrere it recieved more than 45,000 points (87% upvotes) and 3,700 comments in 24 hours. That day, Redditor yourSAS posted about it in the /r/worldnews subreddit and received more than 88,000 points (88% upvoted) and 7,100 comments in 24 hours.

Jeff Bezos is too rich to actually care about bathroom breaks for and of his 576,000 employees.  Plus, he sorta stepped down a month ago, he’s just starting to get comfortable with his new side piece and his ex-wife is giving away the BILLIONS he lost to her in the divorce.  You can’t seriously expect a guy who’s gone through all that to wonder how his delivery guys have been able to cream a 15-hour workday into a 12-hour shift.

They piss in bottles.

Amazon is the reason unions exist.  They are so big and powerful, they not only make the rules, they make new rules while ignoring all the other rules while taking massive tax breaks while promising a shit pile of jobs and a major boost for the local economy.

Amazon made 5.6 billion in profit last year.  Their employees don’t have bathroom breaks.

Jeff Bezos makes $152,207 per minute –  $2,537 per second.  His warehouse workers piss in coke bottles because they can’t stop working.  for $15 an hour.  

As much as I hate what unions have turned into, a union would get those employees bathroom breaks, $30 an hour, free glasses, computers, and massages for the whole family.

DB