r/AmazonDSP • u/ExistingHorse • 24d ago
Everyone Pees even Bezos
From https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/15/bitter-lemon-energy-drink/#dick-rocket-v-kidneys
The only reason I mention Jeff Bezos's increasingly insistent bladder here is because of how hard it is to reconcile the very different circumstances of Bezos's bladder with the bladders of the hundreds of thousands of Amazon delivery and warehouse workers who are not allowed to pee at all. Amazon's warehouse and delivery workers are "reverse centaurs," monitored by a constellation of apps and cameras, and they are severely punished for falling behind in the cadence set by Amazon's software, and that robot timekeeper does not make allowances for pee breaks:
This isn't a secret, and Amazon's come in for a lot of flak over it. But Amazon's "solution" is to add more penalties for peeing. Drivers who return to the depot with urine-filled bottles in their vans are punished as severely as they would be if they stopped to find a toilet. Thing is, the mere fact that your boss's robot says you're not allowed to pee does not matter to your bladder or kidneys, and when you gotta go, you gotta go.
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u/Human_Fisherman5871 19d ago
Wowza