Amazon is a notoriously brutal employer. All indications are that they treat employees like components in a machine rather than human beings, and there’s a litany of reports about tightly restricted access to bathrooms, micro-management of every minute of time, and poor regard for worker safety.
But one particular instance from an Amazon warehouse in Troutdale, Oregon has left people’s jaws on the floor for how cold, callous, and frankly inhuman the managerial response was. On April 6, employees at the loading docks in the Troutdale Amazon warehouse were horrified to see one of their co-workers suddenly collapse.
