AMAZON on BBC1 Undercover

A question about : AMAZON on BBC1 Undercover

Staff walking over 8 miles on a shift! Working in the dark too with a count down on the scanner used to 'pick' stock' off the shelves.

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• A day off sick = 1 point
  Get sent home for being sick = 1 point
  2 points final warning
  3 points see you later
• In fairness the staff are told at the interview stage that they would be expected to walk that sort of distances.
  Of course they could always automate the warehouse but I guess Amazon would be panned for that as well
• Who would have thought that tax dodging scum bags would treat their staff like battery rats ?
• Finding items in that amount of time is crazy, I work for a toy shop doing the click and collect, if you click something I go get it and reserve it for you, I have 20 minutes to find something and it's not always as easy as it would seem to get it done in 20 mins! (I don't get a scanner lol) They must lose a load of weight doing that amount of walking, I only do it in the store and what warehouse we have, running around it for 19 hours a week and i have lost a bit from that in the short amount of time I've been working there. I couldn't do that for that amount of time, big up to those who can and do though!
• The government allow amazon to get away with no/very little tax, the prices are cheap, we buy from them because of it, they run a tight operation, push out legitimate competition, how long can other survive, long enough for the government to change the rules, who knows....
• Good on Amazon, not doing anything illegal.
• [QUOTE=Denning.;63885016]It is not far either, NHS guidance is to walk 10 miles a day...
  
  Where does the NHS say that? They dont say that anywhere at all.
• I used to work in a warehouse walking more or less constantly for 4 hours at a time. Picking and packing too. I was the lowest weight I have ever been as an adult.
• They used to bang on about that 10,000 steps a few years ago and everyone was wearing those pedometers.
  Even 5 miles is a lot for a person to do everyday I think.
  10 miles to walk would take over 3 hours as the average person walks about 3 miles per hour. People wouldnt have time for all that.
• No different in the Tesco warehouse I used to work in. But it was in a fridge.
• If you want cheap products, slave labour is the price to be paid.
• 11 miles is what it said in the independent newspaper I believe. Cheap labour is about right I think (not saying its right, saying that amazon don't treat their workers very well by all accounts)
  Seriously, no one is ever allowed to be sent home sick? 3 times and you are sacked? How lovely.
• Yeah some reason years ago 10k = 10 miles to me.
  Even so, the NHS dumbs stuff down to make it swallowable.
  Of course most people don't walk 8 miles a day. That is why we are so fat. That doesn't mean walking 8 miles a day is slavery or whatever you want to paste it as.
  I'm genuinely shocked that people think walking 8 miles is a serious chore, it is walking for gods sake.