A 46-year-old dad of two claims he was made to keep delivering Amazon parcels after suffering a heart attack and calling his boss to say he had to go to hospital. Neil Martin says he was having dizzy spells and at points couldn't see what he was doing but had to keep going on his route delivering parcels for Amazon.
Neil, who is subcontracted to Amazon via an agency called Deva Logistics, starts his route at 2pm, picking up parcels fro the depot, and shortly after had to call in to say he was feeling very unwell. He called the office and got no answer, so sent a text which reads: "Mate can you call me, am getting chest pains and keep going dizzy am gonna have to go and get checked out."
Neil told the ECHO: "I started getting pains in my chest, feeling dizzy and I was getting sweaty. I ignored it for a minute or two but I started thinking no, this does not feel right. "So I pulled over and phoned the office, but it rang out, so I texted the work mobile number that I was getting chest pains and the manager rang me back. I asked if someone could come and get my packages because I wanted to go to the hospital. They told me someone could come and take half my route off me but that they couldn't do any more than that."
