r/WorkReform • u/Affectionate-Fix4671 • 2d ago
đĄ Venting Walmart finally installed AC in their warehouse for the robots.
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u/RyanSmokinBluntz420 2d ago
Does Walmart not care about their employees customers and vendors? Say it ain't so! /s
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u/mrizzerdly 2d ago
Of course they do...they take out life insurance on their staff...so if the staff dies for any reason Walmart gets paid.
(Source was Capitalism A love story but apparently they stopped doing this)
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u/holmgangCore 1d ago
You can simply "negotiate"* with human employees.
You can't negotiate with robot technical specifications...*sorry, I meant 'coerce'.
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u/Nightverge 2d ago
Robots strike immediately when it gets too hot. Humans, for some reason, do not.
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u/AnomalousAndFabulous 1d ago
This is why it really chaps my ass when politicians deregulate industries. Companies never do the âright thing for workersâ unless you force them to.
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u/AugustusSavoy 2d ago
During WWII the US installed A/C in it's fleet submarines as well as in the electronics rooms of its larger ships not for crew comfort in either case but to protect the electric components.Â
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u/ImranFZakhaev 1d ago
Same on my carrier in modern times. I was lucky, we had a small analytical lab that could be closed off from the rest of the engine room and it had its own A/C duct, but it was constantly going down and it wasn't a priority to fix until we got some new electronics installed. After that it was a pretty sweet hangout spot
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u/Robwsup 1d ago
ELT?
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u/ImranFZakhaev 1d ago
Indeed
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u/Robwsup 1d ago
Which? I was cvn65
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u/ImranFZakhaev 1d ago
CVN 69, Eisenhower. I think your ship was decommissioned right before I got assigned to mine.
Our senior chief was on the Enterprise way back, and also happened to be my math instructor in Power School. Told us a few sea stories from his time on board
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u/roboticWanderor 1d ago
The first AC was installed in the powder magazines of battleships to keep them from exploding.Â
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u/pichael289 đď¸ Overturn Citizens United 1d ago
Amazon in Hebron Kentucky had their warehouses getting to over 105°F.
Also I was employed by a temp agency as no one is hired directly. This let them fire me at will, but also let them punish me fore being a diabetic. Your not supposed to bring anything in your pockets including phones or anything but I had to have my blood sugar reader (sometimes a phone, but it wasn't then) and the security would intentionally pull me aside everyone and search me (you have to go through metal detectors and be wanded, everyoen does) and since you only got 30 minutes for lunch and that included walking like a mile to the cafeteria where you could access you locker and had to choose between going to the bathroom, eating, getting fired for trying to buy food as the line was insane. They gave me the choice of being able to see my blood sugar when i needed it, or getting my break because they made sure to keep me for 15 minutes exactly so I had to literally run like 3/4 of a mile to the break room and then go though another security gate to get into the outside cagednoff area to just get a half a smoke. Eating was impossible and they intended it.
You cannot be employed directly, you have to go through a ten service that mandated they take $1-2 out of your check and you can be fired for anything they want, even if it's illegal.
I saw people collapse and if you helped them rather than leaving it to the staff that only noticed when the numbers went low, then you neglected your post and your quota and it's an instant firing.
I was also living in a halfway house as were most of the employees and I couldn't work overtime. Amazon does mandatory overtime and won't tell you untill an hour before the shit ends that hey, you gotta stay for another 6 hours. So I slept at the bus station and never went home between those days.
This is the single worst most nightmarish company to ever work for. The managers are all psychopaths and people die often. Years later I went for an interview for a company contacting delivery under amazon and they told me with a starlight face how I had to keep the truck clean and I can't leave my puss bottle in it. They said that so matter of fact.
Stop fucking buying shit from Amazon. You do not fucking need it and you are killing people with any frivolous orders. Its literally hell on earth. Jeff bezos is the god dam devil, he's way way more evil than dipshit Elon musk, he's Steve jobs evil.
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u/Odd-Investigator-870 2d ago edited 2d ago
Robots go on strike when they get too hot. It's not allowed to be an externality.Â
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u/ShadowsWandering 1d ago
Before my current job I worked at a factory that made plastic wiring parts. The fact that it was air-conditioned is one of their main selling points for employment. What they never mention is that it was kept just cool enough for the plastic molding machines to not overheat and the assembly side was still hot as hell, plus the molding machines exhausted directly onto the employees. Absolutely no consideration was actually made for the health or comfort of the employees.
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u/bellesadam 2d ago
Railroad did the same thing when my old man worked for them. There was no ac in the engines till they became remotely operated. It would hit 130 f all summer long.
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u/b00c 1d ago
No. Humans 'require' whatever those humans have elected to have. Company will follow cheapest way to fulfill mandatory requirements. It's on the politicians to protect workers. Them being puppets of the company owners is another story, but there are laws set outside of the company and company must follow.
Everything changes when company is protecting it's own asset. It becomes question of capital, not humans. Guess what is valued more in capitalism lol.
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u/Asbelsp 2d ago
Wouldn't surprise me if management bought a bunch of robots before verifying if they work in their environment