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• @josheidelson Josh Eidelson on x

  Exclusive: While Amazon disclaims liability for the treatment and actions of its sub-contracted drivers, confidential documents show it imposes extensive rules governing their fingernail cleanliness, tweets, training, data, NDAs, arbitration, and more... https://www.bloomberg.com…

• @chuckxl Chuck on x

  Look, I can wait an extra day, it's not that important. https://twitter.com/...

• @cyn_k Cynthia Khoo on x

  “Amazon seems to want to have its cake and eat it too—to have all the control of an employment relationship, without bearing the costs [...] These documents provide an important signal to courts and to government agencies that this is a relationship to look at.” -@andrewelmore17 …

• @timmarchman Tim Marchman on x

  Ah wonderful—Amazon drivers are ordered to drive unsafely to meet their demanding, inhumane targets for numbers of deliveries https://www.vice.com/...

• @daithaigilbert David Gilbert on x

  This is utterly disturbing...and more great reporting from @LaurenKGurley Amazon's Drivers Are Instructed to Drive Recklessly to Meet Delivery Quotas https://www.vice.com/...

• @alexnpress Alex Press on x

  “The drivers feel they are being threatened and pressured to to break traffic laws and risk their own safety while delivering Amazon packages.” https://www.vice.com/...

• @repandylevin Rep. Andy Levin on x

  This is exactly what we mean when we talk about worker misclassification. Drivers are “independent” except that Amazon controls basically every aspect of how they operate and can unilaterally change any of these working conditions on a whim. All while avoiding federal law. https:…

• @josheidelson Josh Eidelson on x

  ...Amazon also dictates that logistics companies it uses have “employment-at-will” and forced arbitration policies, drug-test staff when Amazon raises suspicion, and let Amazon have their data or inspect their premises up to 3 years after they part ways... https://www.bloomberg.c…

• @pt Parker on x

  Insert the sweaty guy with two buttons meme but it's people trying to decide whether to be angry about HQ worker surveillance or bad bosses telling workers to circumvent safety tech. https://twitter.com/...

• @josephmenn Joseph Menn on x

  TFW when your Orwellian labor-extraction surveillance tool might be used against you in a court of law. https://twitter.com/...

• @laurenkgurley Lauren Kaori Gurley on x

  Scoop: Amazon delivery drivers around the US are being ordered to quietly dismantle a driver safety system and drive dangerously to meet their delivery quotas. https://www.vice.com/...

• @josephfcox Joseph Cox on x

  Motherboard spoke to drivers across the country who said they are ordered to keep the safety app on for a few hours, but then turn it off. Also turn on airplane mode or shut off their phones in the middle of shifts to prevent the app recording data. https://www.vice.com/... https…

• @jason_koebler Jason Koebler on x

  SCOOP: Amazon delivery dispatchers are telling their drivers to drive recklessly to hit Amazon quotas, and are quietly instructing them to turn off driver safety monitoring software partway through their shifts to avoid detection by Amazon https://www.vice.com/...

• @motherboard @motherboard on x

  NEW: Amazon delivery companies around the United States are encouraging reckless and dangerous driving by ordering delivery drivers to shut off a safety app so they can hit Amazon's delivery quotas. https://www.vice.com/...

• @josephfcox Joseph Cox on x

  Financial bonuses are added if stats are of a certain score. Turning off the app allows drivers, the people ordering this, to abuse the system and get high score while driving recklessly https://www.vice.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @lorenzofb Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai on x

  Amazon drivers not only have to pee in bottles, “she-wees,” or plastic bags. They are also being told to turn off a monitoring app so they can speed in order to meet quotas. https://www.vice.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @josephfcox Joseph Cox on x

  Absolutely wild: Amazon drivers are being ordered to turn off an app that monitors the driver's speed and is designed to stop accidents. This is encouraging reckless and dangerous driving so they can speed through delivery routes to hit targets https://www.vice.com/...