I would like to discuss about the ethics and social standards Amazon managers abide by, since I work at an Amazon fulfillment center. Having worked there for over a couple of years I have experienced how physically strenuous working conditions at amazon are, without providing any adequate accommodations to do such strenuous work. Employees need to be on their feet for 10 hours straight without any opportunity to rest their legs, except for two small breaks. Managers always provide unrealistic daily goals/rates that needs to met, otherwise employees get a right up for poor performance. And during peak season, around summer times and the few weeks before Christmas, employees are required to do mandatory overtime. Until recently Amazon had a policy called Tot, where employees where digitally tracked to see how long they’ve been off work, and if it is usually above 5 minutes, they would get a write up. Employees are daily forced to risk such harsh working conditions, otherwise they would get fired. Because of such harsh policies in place, Amazon has received huge criticism from its employees and also from various government and non-government agencies. Such harsh working conditions have forced Amazon employees to form the ALU or the Amazon labor union, which has promised to overturn such harsh policies through collective bargaining with Amazon management. But Amazon decided to appeal the decision of forming the ALU, in the court, so that it can continue to exercise its harsh policies upon its employees just to earn more and more profits at the expense of the wellbeing of its employees. It is high time the court rules in favor of the ALU so that employees can have a better working condition at Amazon.
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