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Thanks for those. I'm not here to defend Amazon (they are not my friend  ) but I think the first is an unusual situation and the second one is pretty irrelevant to your claim. I suspect many companies we affected by the same conditions of the first one in that area not just Amazon and the second sounds like a typical bureaucratic screwup. |
Were you replying to Rizla? Because if you did, then you didn't read the first article very well:
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But this isn’t the first time Amazon has been in hot water over the company’s working conditions. Amazon required some employees to work seven days a week and scared others out of taking sick leave, according to a December 2008 report from The Times of London.
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so you can't say that it's unusual for Amazon if you compare it to the current working conditions:
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But many workers pushed through difficult working conditions after seeing what happened to other employees who didn’t meet expectations — they were fired and escorted out of the warehouse.
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