*[Enwl-eng] Jeff Bezos's employees are struggling, but he brags about 8 hours of sleep each night

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Dec 27, 2020, 11:52:21 AM12/27/20
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Jeff Bezos just laid out his secrets to success. Surprise: they're all things he doesn't allow his overworked, abused employees to do.
 
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Oh great, Jeff Bezos wrote a book. In it, he regails us with his immense wisdom as the CEO of Amazon.com — including how he's achieved his great success by following simple daily practices, such as sleeping at least 8 hours a night, keeping most of his work confined to morning hours, and clocking out religiously at 5pm every day. This advice about work-life balance might be beautiful if it weren't for the fact that Bezos makes it impossible for his Amazon employees to follow it. This discrepancy makes his "secret tips" even more infuriating.

Before the pandemic hit, Jeff Bezos was already worth an astounding $73 billion. During the crisis, his worth has more than doubled to upwards of $200 billion. No wonder he sleeps so well at night! But his warehouse employees have seen their fortunes go in the opposite direction. Before the pandemic, they were already struggling so badly under producitvity demands, they had to wear adult diapers and urinate in bottles at their workstations. Since then, the conditions have only gotten worse as Amazon sales have skyrocketed — all on the backs of abused, exploited staff. Yet Jeff Bezos expects us to all swoon over his cozy, privileged best practices? Save the self-aggrandizing "wisdom," Jeff. Pay your workers! Sign the petition to demand justice for Amazon's beleagurered employees.

Thank you for all that you do,

 

Miranda B.
The Care2 Petitions Team

 

P.S. Bezos gets to have breakfast every morning with his kids. His employees are forced to put in constant overtime in warehouses that have suffered from COVID outbreaks. Tell Jeff Bezos to provide his employees with the work-life balance he boasts about and treat them like the real human beings they are.




 
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