But the singing is how I distract myself from not having a pee break for 12 hours and my old soda bottle is almost full so I can’t afford to take another piss
I have a drive cam for work that dies something similar. While they don’t ding us for singing, they will for everything else like us scratching our ear because it thinks there’s an earpiece and we can’t have any electronic devices including GPS. But the camera screaming “FOLLOWING DISTANCE” every time we get cut off or a car 3 semi truck lengths away in 25 taps their brakes and forcing us to slam the brakes so we don’t get written up is perfectly safe.
It’s 1964, you read this in a short story. You think its funny impossible distopia.
Phillip K Dick would be out of a job in 2024.
Was it in “Ubik” that people had to pay a fee every time they wanted to use their domestic appliances or even open the door to their own house?
20 years left to go…
I love driving. I’ve had delivery jobs and I really enjoyed them. There is absolutely no fucking way I’m working for anyone that has a fucking camera pointed at me. That is some fucking bullshit. I can’t believe anyone works for that shit hole company and puts up with that garbage. No camera, no microphone. I’ll do my job. If you don’t trust me to do my job, then it’s best for the both of us I’m not there.
I understand needing a job. I’ve been there. Don’t put up with that bullshit, unionize, or find something else. There’s jobs out there much better.
On a side note, If you drove holding the steering wheel with your middle fingers out, what kind of punishment would that be?
On a side note, If you drove holding the steering wheel with your middle fingers out, what kind of punishment would that be?
Believe it or not, straight to jail.
We have the best deliveries. Because of jail.
This is on a different similar note. I work for a big hardware store that isnt home depot. My job trusts me enough to take home keys to the store, and drive a 10 thousand pound forklift whenever I want, but I have to use the worst safety box opener I’ve ever seen. Makes me so mad because it just doesn’t work half the time.
I think a lot of times this is driven by someone cutting themselves and creating a pile Of paperwork and costing money. Worked for a fast food chain and we had to use a chainmail glove to use a knife for the same reason.
That sounds annoying, but my personal rule is any time I have the opportunity to wear armor like a medieval knight, do it.
I’ve got a camera in my work truck. I hate it but I can’t make this much money anywhere else. I was actually sent for a drug and alcohol test a few weeks ago because I kept dozing off while I was sitting in the truck on break. I passed because I was nice and charming to the young girl giving the test. The only thing I popped on was weed anyway.
The reason I was nodding off in the truck is I was fucking exhausted from making them a shitload of money.
Hey we noticed after 12 hours in the heat you seem tired. Must be drugs.
I passed because I was nice and charming to the young girl giving the test.
I’m confused. Either you passed the urinalysis because there was nothing in your system (except weed, which they apparently don’t care about), or because you somehow convinced the technician to fudge the numbers of a medical test? If it’s the latter then wow, that’s a lot of charisma…
She was just nice. Much younger than me. We had a pleasant conversation and I made her laugh. I pissed in the cup and she came and got it. She said “Hmm one of these lines is pretty high… oh well don’t worry about it you passed.” That was definitely weed because the other drugs I had done recently were either out of by system or they don’t test for anyway. She dumped out the piss and threw the cup in the trash.
When I’m on with charisma I’m really good. Unfortunately this is almost always in professional situations. I’m awkward or drunk at parties, but people fall in love in extended one on one time. Shit’s complicated and my mental health is in the dumpster.
I’ll add this to the “normal in America, totally illegal in the rest of the western world” list
Definitely not normal in the US, either.
wears a face mask
Can’t restricting mouth movements be seen as a restriction on speech and people’s right to talk about and form a union?
It depends on what it says when they run the video through a lip reading program.
While none of us here can say for sure, I wonder if this is more forced by Amazon’s fleet insurer raising rates rather than an evil directly from Amazon just because they can.
Amazon has roughly 30,000+ delivery vehicles. I don’t know their accident rate. But any injury or accident lawyer can tell you that listening to music and singing and generally be-bopping down the road IS distracted driving. This will cause larger payouts per accident and also higher insurance rates. And it’s low hanging fruit to go after in court. If Amazon is noticing the extra cost becoming an issue, it could well be the reason for such a draconian policy.
I’m not sayin’. I’m just sayin’ it could be a driver, (pun intended), in this instance.
A company having a policy because “the insurance company makes us” is no less evil than the insurance company.
I wish I can upvotes a million times because that deflection is how we got into this evil.
That’s not how insurance works. They monitor average speed, acceleration, and braking, if anything. There’s no correlation between mouth movement and accidents. What if someone is chewing gum? What about adjusting dentures? What about drinking coffee while parked?
Show me an actuarial table that includes “mouth movement” as a variable or admit this is just a middle manager trying something stupid.
It might open an unwanted can of worms but maybe the drivers could claim they aren’t signing along to the radio but are vocalizing actions like Japanese train operators to ensure focus and safety.
claim they aren’t signing along to the radio
I mean…if they’re signing along to the radio, I’d say that’s really dangerous and needs to be cracked down on! Can’t sign sign language with both hands on the wheel after all!
Singing should be absolutely fine though.
It’s safe to sign while driving but only if you’re blind.
I pray for the downfall of Amazon.
They are the size of a world power, and they have their hands in everything. They’re not falling any time soon.
It amazes me how they go great lengths to piss off both consumers and their workers to maximize profits
I recall several cases of “copyright infringement” that this reminds me of.
One case was an auto-shop that was just playing music on their stereo system or whatever
another case was an elderly couple that liked to sing songs together
we really have to get the DMCA under control. it does way more harm than good
Amen. If we could get a community against this going, it would be a first step. Would you like to help with such a thing. Lets be the change we want to see.
This is absolutely terrible and definitely feels like an invasion of, idk, being a human?! But with that said, even though people find out stuff like this happens to drivers and workers, they still enable it by ordering from Amazon because of convenience.
Until we can pull away on our reliance on these services, the companies are just gonna keep crossing more and more lines because they know they’re getting away with it with their customers.
It’s just that most people just genuinely don’t care enough about what’s happening to other people enough to do anything beyond just saying that Amazon is bad. On top of that as Amazon starts to drive other stores out of business it does start to slowly become the only choice for getting certain things. So with those two combined expecting personal consumer choice to really make a difference is not realistic, this is the kind of thing that needs the government to intervene on to force Amazon to unionize and to potentially break it up like is being discussed with Google.
If the workforce was 100% unionized, they may realize they don’t need bosses. There’s a word for this, but I can’t think of it right now.
If it’s step 1, cooperatives. If it’s step 2, communism.
Yeah, we should totally stop eating to show the grocery stores they can’t control their employees. /s
Until we can make crossing those lines painful for those companies, they’ll keep doing it. Unfortunately, I think convenience is always going to beat morality if you leave it to “voting with your dollar”, we need actual regulations from our governments to combat this shit.
I bet this is monitored by AI software
“You really think you can tell me what I can do with my body?”
REPUBLICAN PARTY has entered the chat…
“What? No I wasn’t singing, I just kept saying “FUCK YOU BEZOS” during my trips”
Jeff Bezos hasn’t been CEO of Amazon for a few years. Now it’s that bland twat Andy Jassy, who has all of the fascism but none of the intelligence of his predecessor.
