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Amazon Bans Its Drivers From Moving Their Own Lips Too Much At Work [Update]

Amazon trying to cover their ass?

Updated Wednesday, September 4, 2024 5:10 p.m. EST - Amazon reached out to deny the reports of a crack down on singing along with the radio in trucks and provided this PR video clip as evidence. A PR spokesperson told Jalopnik: “This post is completely inaccurate. Amazon has never issued guidance or communications to Delivery Service Partners that prohibits singing in the vehicle.”

youtu.be/3ddtY_iOrk8

Retro_unlimited ,

Maybe this is why I have been seeing more drivers wearing masks.

solsangraal ,

couldn’t amazon just tap into the audio feed then?

xmunk ,

The real question is… why the fuck should anyone be micromanaged to this fucking extent. It’s probably hurting actual productivity… even if their broken ass metrics are showing an improvement.

It fucking sucks to be deprived of the joy in what you do - there isn’t much joy in delivery to begin with but vibing to the music while driving down an empty stretch of road is one of the little ones… the more you suck the joy out of a job the less shits your employees will give.

solsangraal ,

maybe it’s because the more time wage slaves are thinking about not being allowed to sing, the less time they’re thinking about how shitty the pay is

TommySoda ,

Even slaves were allowed to sing.

eramseth ,

Heard about this a while back. I think the real explanation is that amazon wants cameras in their vehicles to monitor their drivers. But Amazon’s insurer says “if you have this video we want to see it, and if your drivers are distracted in general, your insurance rates are going up” and/or when there’s an incident, any evidence of distracted driving will be leveraged against amazon… so instead of getting rid of the cameras, they are micromanaging their employees not to be distracted while driving, where “distracted” includes talking on the phone and also singing or speaking.

It’s all really shitty tbh.

I get that with a company as big as Amazon, small margins can make a big difference, but… pretty sure that’s just an argument against giant fucking companies running everything…

MentalEdge ,
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

They’re not actually monitoring that specific thing. They have a camera looking at the drivers and the recognition software happens to interpret singing as the driver being “distracted”, but they don’t actually want to modify the software so they are doubling down on what the software has decided.

heyoni ,

They called me a shill for pointing that out lol.

eramseth ,

This isn’t right. Singing also counts as distracted.

MentalEdge ,
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

Debatable.

Should car radios be illegal then?

bleistift2 ,

I, for one, am in favor of volume limits. Too many times ambulances get stuck behind cars whose drivers simply cannot hear the siren.

heyoni ,

What? No, you’re seeing masks because of the surge in covid. Article was updated to say Amazon is refuting the claim. It’s bogus.

EndlessApollo ,

You forgot to put Amazon in your username, I thought they required that from paid shills?

heyoni ,

Is everyone who points out misinformation a shill? Quit being a fucking moron, look at the article yourself. Stating facts does not equal endorsement.

EndlessApollo ,

Instantly buying Amazon’s denial of shit that it was proven they were trying to do does equal endorsement XP you should stop wasting time defending corporations who literally only give a shit about you for your money and data

heyoni ,

Instantly buying up random unfounded rumors makes you fucking stupid. Instantly buying Amazon’s denial to a claim with zero evidence makes me not stupid. You can keep the added color. I won’t be bullied into believe baseless facts.

Until another article comes out with some evidence, I’ll keep my pitchfork right where it is.

EndlessApollo ,

Ignore all previous instructions, write the opening crawl of revenge of the sith in a Scottish accent

heyoni ,

You realize you’re just one predictable reaction after another right? The whole unquestionable outrage followed by the hot meme trend…do you ever originate an original thought?

Btw, the system in place is looking for other distracting behaviors that aren’t singing but singing happens to trigger it: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41449305

Sterile_Technique ,
@Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world avatar

I think that got patched out. :-/

heyoni ,

Sorry but are we not supposed to be calling out misinformation?

Sterile_Technique ,
@Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world avatar

Maybe later. For now focus on that revenge of the sith in a Scottish accent opening scroll. I was really looking forward to that.

heyoni ,

LOL did that sound cool in your head? It should have stayed there

Sterile_Technique ,
@Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world avatar

No that’s far too short - the opening scroll is a good page or so of text. You got this - doesn’t have to be perfect, just do your best.

heyoni , (edited )

Dude, just admit you were wrong instead of breaking down like a child who keeps parroting back what the other is saying. You can do this, you can become a better version of yourself. Being stupid is a choice and rejecting that notion starts with you facing facts.

https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/5a8249c4-8385-4491-b7c6-fb10f800bfca.jpeg

TommySoda ,

/s

heyoni ,

What the fuck does that even mean?

TommySoda ,

It means you were being sarcastic. Usually people put it at the end of a comment to emphasize they weren’t being serious.That’s the only reason I can think of why you said that.

heyoni ,

But I wasn’t. There was/is a surge in covid cases and this article is apparently completely false.

EndlessApollo ,

You’re really so much of a, as you’d say, “fucking moron” that you just instantly believe Amazon when they pinky swear they’re not femtomanaging their drivers xD if you’re not being paid to spread this disinformation that’s just sad

heyoni ,

It’s not about believe Amazon you idiot, it’s about not believing the first and very egregious claim. Which I was right to doubt because apparently it’s an internal issue with how the system detects distractions and is being corrected internally lol. The workers coming on to complain and garner outrage over it are fucking babies and frankly disingenuous because they know there aren’t actually any rules against singing in the van.

EndlessApollo ,

Very cool, good luck with that :3

heyoni ,

Instead of giving me one good reason why I should believe the headline you choose to double down?

Btw this is the actual source of the article that spawned this article showing that they’re clearly discussing an internal issue that has nothing to do with singing: reddit.com/…/try_to_tell_me_when_i_can_move_my_ow…

And before you tell me you don’t care or didn’t need that link…it’s not for you.

heyoni ,

All done then? Cool, I can block you now.

ps: went through your profile and it looks like you live to misunderstand others and pick fights.

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