I get your point. The same could be said about any soldiers following orders to do horrific things. Do we blame the soldier's or do we blame the purple giving them orders?
I get your point. The same could be said about any soldiers following orders to do horrific things. Do we blame the soldier's or do we blame the purple giving them orders?
I'm a little black and white on some things. The end question is "Who signs the employee paycheck?" The article explicitly states that these employees work for a third party. They work for a third party who signs their paychecks so they don't work for Amazon. They do Amazon's work but they are not Amazon employees. It's kind of like working for a tech recruiter at a client location. There are a number of them and if the client starts doing stuff like this, the worker/contractor does not have to tolerate it. They can walk out and the staffing company will stand up for them.
It's like Fedex. Nearly got rammed into a cement median by a truck with a Fedex logo on the trailer but the cab was brown, not Fedex white. Called in to file the complaint and was flat out told "These drivers do not work for us so there's nothing we can directly do but we're going to talk to the company that driver works for."
This is why I'm saying "Not Amazon employees" because they aren't.
Yes, I'm aware Amazon is doing its own delivery business but that's not what the article is talking about. But in that delivery business, they can do whatever the employee signs off on.