Forum Post: The Occupy Streams are Brought to Us By Advertisers!!!
Posted 12 years ago on Nov. 11, 2011, 3:21 a.m. EST by nichole
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What's up with that? Amazon.com advertised on another livestream that I viewed ... Do you know anything about their labor abuses? If not, search Morning Call, "Inside Amazon's Warehouse." I can't believe I just saw that this site, too, features livestreaming brought to us by advertiser. This one was from Hyundai, they're not as bad as amazon.com ... still?
I used to work in a warehouse that processed Amazon orders. I worked for 7.50 and hour, 16 hours a day, hard labor, and it was considered a "good job." I have no problem working. I am not a lazy person. But this place herded you in like cattle, expected you to work between 12 and 18 hours with only 3 breaks the whole day and the overtime was mandatory. You didn't know how many hours you would have to work until, well, they told you to go home. They didn't care at all about their employees and frequently the supervisors abused the team members under them. It was one of the hardest, lowest paying jobs I have ever had to endure.
americanrightsatwork.org is circulating a petition. I currently work at their Lehigh Valley warehouse, the one that has been receiving all the bad press, thank you to the Morning Call. If you haven't read their expose, please check it out.
You do realize that the Live Streams are 'free' to the 'poster' yet servers etc still have to be paid. The ads are paid ads earning the server money. Simplest way I can explain it.
Jeez.
Understood, yet still ... so inherently wrong. Just wanted to point that out. Thank you for explaining it to this dolt.
Did not mean to imply lack of intelligence, it's late and the simplest explanation usually works the best.
I know that the ads can make it all seem contradictory, but hey 'ya take what ya can get'.
That's a problem when your detractors are portraying you as a bunch of lazy whiners, you know, the I don't want to work crowd.
I was mostly trying to avoid the techies. LOL Seems like techies don't like the K-I-S-S principal. So by letting them know in advance that we actually had at least an idea it was more complicated than that we could avoid a lecture.