Amazon worker dies on warehouse floor in Oregon. Workers were told to keep going as body stayed put

[CentralMass]

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/healthcare/articles/just-dont-look-amazon-worker-170000180.html
"A worker collapsed and died on the floor of an Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) warehouse in Troutdale, Oregon, on April 6 — and for more than an hour, employees say they were told to keep loading trucks as the body lay nearby.

The incident at Amazon's PDX9 fulfillment center was first reported by The Western Edge (1), an independent investigative outlet covering the Pacific Northwest, and confirmed by Amazon to TechCrunch (2). The worker was 46 years old, according to public records. His name and cause of death have not been disclosed."

[bluestarone]

1. Jesus Christ!

[leftstreet]

2. These workers scare me n/t

[CentralMass]

4. The workers scare you ? How about the f'kng broligarchs who own these companies

[City Lights]

7. In what way to the workers scare you?

The ones that are continuing to work around a corpse?

The billionaires scare me.

[Coventina]

23. Billionaires scare me. n/t

[Maru Kitteh]

3. W/ unexpected death you MUST leave the body where it is until coroner arrives

Doesn’t mean you have to order people to keep working though!

[obamanut2012]

10. You would if you have to have that paycheck

To pay bills, to support your family. Many single moms work there.

[paleotn]

16. The point being, they shouldn't have to.

Many of them probably knew the deceased. Perhaps well. Seems we're right back to The Jungle.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

5. So 😔 sad

[Vinca]

8. Got to keep the Bezos billions flowing.

[littlemissmartypants]

9. Was nobody trained in CPR?

[maxsolomon]

14. Would that have saved the worker?

Most warehouses like that are going to have CPR-trained staff AND a defibrillator.

People die of other stuff besides heart attacks, though.

[enigmania]

11. Really bodes well for the future, right?

[Tasmanian Devil]

12. Boycott Amazon!

Boycott Amazon! This article is old, but they've only gotten more evil since then:

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-free-online-shipping-warehouses-labor/

[MerryBlooms]

19. I haven't ordered from Amazon in at least 4 years, canceled Prime

We just no longer needed the service. Then, all the political garbage came flowing. I watch YouTube, but not a fancy member. Took weeks for the idiotic Melania movie to stop being advertised. My main go to; We Rate Dogs, Kimmel, Colbert, SNL... None of those are in Melania wheelhouse, but Bezos paid a massive amount of money for a short time to flood YouTube.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

22. That was an eye-opening article.

It made me extra grateful I had a government job (now retired) with union representation.

Along with DU, Mother Jones is one of my favorite progressive sites.

I am glad the author got to go back to her regular job and life. But there are many others who are trapped in jobs like these with lousy pay, terrible working conditions and having to deal with a company policy and attitude that is downright dehumanizing.

[Coventina]

24. Been doing it for a few years now. So glad I'm done with Amazon!!

Fuck the billionaires!!!

[dave99]

13. Bezos, be dying continously in the frozen depths of hell as its limbs move about in many directions

[GiqueCee]

15. This is the second time I've read of a death...

... in an Amazon warehouse that was treated so callously. I'm betting there have been more that just weren't publicized.
I hope that Bozo Bezos' demise is treated at least as badly.

[paleotn]

17. He should die slowly in agony, the bald bastard.

[GiqueCee]

18. Alone and despised...

... by everyone that had the misfortune to hear his name.

[MerryBlooms]

20. Cart him into his original warehouse... Cardboard box, 2 week old flowers tossed...Sneef

[Kid Berwyn]

21. Unionize

As they are not afraid of losing their jobs ("Pedophile Protector!" ), members of an organized workforce can stop in respect of a dead brother or sister. And unions do a generally good job of making sure their members are not worked to death or in dangerous conditions.

Geez, Bezos.