How to Decode Your Mother’s Body Language:
Het is:
Naast dat het niet mag, hóórt het ook gewoon niet.
En daarbij:
Stel je eens voor dat iedereen alles al ging openmaken,
opeten en opdrinken voordat je bij de kassa bent ...
Forum.viva.nl, naast dat het niet mag? CBL Protocol Aanhouden Winkeldieven:
Plegen mijn klanten diefstal wanneer ze mijn artikelen in de winkel opeten?
Een klant die ter plaatse voedingswaren opeet en achteraf aan de kassa netjes betaalt, pleegt geen diefstal. Een klant die de lege verpakking ergens in de rekken weggooit en vervolgens ‘vergeet’ te betalen, pleegt wel diefstal.
Elders, getroffen door een orkaan:
Wave-of-looting-shutters-stores-spreads-fear-in-venezuela:
Er is genoeg voor iedereen:
Hoe het rechtvaardig te verdelen:
„AI is slechts een betere vorm van statistiek.”
Stel je voor dat Amazon op basis van de data van miljoenen consumenten heel precies kan voorspellen wie welke spullen nodig heeft, en wanneer. Dan zou Amazon ook op de bonnefooi dozen naar mensen kunnen sturen met spullen die ze, gebaseerd op grote hoeveelheden data, waarschijnlijk nodig hebben.
Daar gaat de bel. Voor de buren maar of hij het mag afgeven en bij de ontvanger een bericht in de bus doen:
„Dan open je de doos en vind je een pakje flosdraad; vervolgens loop je naar je badkamer om te zien dat je flosdraad inderdaad op is.”
Typisch mijn buurman, die weet dat gewoon:
„Als dit klinkt als science fiction: Amazon heeft sinds twee jaar een patent geregistreerd voor precies deze dienst.”
Basisfuncties van een distributiecentrum:
- Opslag van artikelen: Om de verschillen tussen vraag- en aanbod te overbruggen
- Hergroeperen van artikelen: Afnemers bestellen andere hoeveelheden en andere combinaties van producten, dan de leveranciers (kunnen) aanbieden
Wie doen het:
Basically, it kind of sucks to work for Amazon, but everything they’re doing (in the U.S. at least) is probably legal. But we’re not going to get into a whole thing about the U.S. having really shitty requirements for workers, and how other developed countries have awesome things like paid parental leave, extended vacations, mandated sick pay, better unemployment benefits, etc.
Amazon, however, defended itself. They said:
„Amazon provides a safe and positive workplace for thousands of people across the UK with competitive pay and benefits from day one.”
Amazon provides a safe workplace:
Eight for people who were unconscious, two for electrocution
A series of Freedom of Information Requests submitted to ambulance services, shows medics have been called out 600 times to 14 Amazon warehouses in the last three financial years.
Nietes:
Amazon said most of the requests were associated with “personal health events” and were not work-related.
Welles:
There were 115 call-outs to a site in Rugeley, near Birmingham. The Rugeley site employs more than 1,800 people. Compare the Amazon figures to just eight ambulance calls over the same period from a nearby Tesco warehouse, where 1,300 people work.
He said the warehouse in Rugeley, Staffordshire, is like a prison with airport-style security:
Mr Bloodworth, who worked ten-hour shifts as a picker selecting goods for despatch, walked ten miles a day in the job to research for a book on low-wage Britain, aldus The Sun:
P*ss the parcel
The warehouse measures 700,000 sq ft and some of the 1,200 workers face a ten minute, quarter-of-a-mile walk to two toilets on the ground floor of the four-storey building.
He claimed workers were continually monitored for time wasting by supervisors:
“For those of us who worked on the top floor, the closest toilets were down four flights of stairs.”
It meant workers operated a “toilet bottle” system:
Mr Bloodworth said: “People just peed in bottles because they lived in fear of being disciplined over ‘idle time’ and losing their jobs just because they needed the loo.”
The undercover investigator:
Language was policed as thoroughly as every other aspect of the working day. Bloodworth’s supervisors told him he should not call the warehouse “a warehouse”. It was a “fulfilment centre”.
Also editor of the Left Foot Forward blog:
No one Bloodworth met lasted the nine months required for Amazon to give them a full-time job. Like worn- out machines, they were scrapped after six. But their bosses did not “sack” them, they “released” them. Not that the bosses were “bosses”. Everyone was an “associate”.
And previously a member of the Trotskyist group, Workers’ Liberty:
“Jeff Bezos is an associate and so are you,” a cheery supervisor said. The only difference being Bezos was worth $60.7bn, while Bloodworth and his fellow “associates” walked back at midnight to fetid digs “with heavy legs supporting suppurating feet which over the course of the day had puffed up half a size bigger”.
The Guardian tot slot:
The point is that no one should have to work in the conditions Bloodworth experienced. This is an easy sentence to write. But if we were to build a society where its sentiments were made a reality, every reader would have to accept paying more for the goods and services they now receive at bargain rates.
At a bargain rate:
• Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain by James Bloodworth is published by Atlantic Books (£12.99). To order a copy for £11.04 go to guardianbookshop.com or call 0330 333 6846. Free UK p&p over £10, online orders only. Phone orders min p&p of £1.99
‘Potent, disturbing and revelatory’ … Amazon zelf zit nergens mee:
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He succeeds in both setting the historical record straight (‘the washing machine has changed the world more than the internet’; ‘the US does not have the highest living standard in the world’; ‘people in poor countries are more entrepreneurial than people in rich countries’) and persuading us of the consequences of his analysis (‘making rich people richer doesn’t make the rest of us richer’; ‘companies should not be run in the interest of their owners’; ‘financial markets need to become less, not more, efficient’).
