Replacing everyone with robots

Source: http://www.crazydaysandnights.net

You know the really rich guy?

No, the one super rich who cheated on his wife with someone who was already married?

Yeah, that guy.

Apparently one of the reasons he is being a tool about worker safety and such is that if enough of them get sick and have to go on leave, he can bring in his plan for replacing everyone with robots. He already does it at stores on a small basis and now wants to do it in every store the company owns.

He is going to sell it as keeping them safe and keeping customers safer.

Makes you wonder what other CEO’s might be warming to the idea.

Jeff Bezos

Wife: MacKenzie Tuttle

Cheated with: Lauren Sanchez (Patrick Whitesell)

Amazon

Fourth Amazon warehouse worker dies from coronavirus

The coronavirus has killed a fourth Amazon warehouse worker amid a torrent of scrutiny over how the e-commerce titan is protecting its front-line employees.

Amazon said it learned the staffer at its Chicago-area facility succumbed to COVID-19 on April 18. The company was told March 24 that the 50-year-old man had tested positive for the virus, it said, but he didn’t have symptoms when he was last at the warehouse on March 19.

“We are saddened by the loss of an associate at our site in Waukegan, Illinois,” Amazon spokeswoman Rachael Lighty said in a statement. “His family and loved ones are in our thoughts, and we are supporting his fellow colleagues.”

There have been at least three other coronavirus deaths of Amazon warehouse workers reported, including one in Staten Island and two in California. CNBC first reported the latest death Wednesday.

The Seattle-based company has not provided an official tally of employees infected or killed by the virus. But workers have reported about 300 cases to United for Respect, a nonprofit that’s tracking the disease among Amazon staff.

Amazon has been criticized by a range of employees and activists who say the company has not done enough to keep workers safe from the deadly disease. The concerns come amid a boom in demand for Amazon’s online delivery services as Americans have been shut in their homes to curb the outbreak.

Amazon has also drawn fire for firing employees who have publicly criticized the company, including Chris Smalls, who organized a small walkout at the Staten Island warehouse in March. Amazon said it axed him because he didn’t self-quarantine after coming in contact with someone who had the virus.

But former Amazon VP Tim Bray called the company “chickens–t” for ousting dissenters after he resigned over such firings last week. – Source