Would the Internet Lie to You

[xoxoxoBruce]

Would the Internet Lie to You, it's oldest and dearest friend... if it didn't involve sex or money?

We see these pictures with attached "Facts"/description, all the time.
Here is one example.



This guy objected. I've been following his site for years, and think he's a straight shooter.

As a former employee of an Amazon warehouse, I cannot possibly believe this.
This was the most safety and health focused place I have ever worked. They made us stretch out before each shift.
We weren’t allowed to catch anything, ever. If a $2000 drone fell off the shelf, we were not allowed to catch it. They’d rather have any item break than risk someone pulling a muscle.
We were NOT allowed to put out fires. If a fire started, we were to exit only. Only the fire crew could put out a fire.
They tested our hearing before we were hired, and then every six months after that to make sure we weren’t losing any due to the workplace.
They called us in for meetings and gave us lessons on dangerous movements such as twisting.
Unlike some production environments, there were no penalties for stopping the line. If you had to clear a jam, or reach over the conveyor for any reason, you shut it down, no questions asked.
They had free, unlimited safety gear. It was like a vending machine stationed in every department, with gloves, earplugs, eye protection, cut protection sleeves, etc. But there was no charge, you just pushed a button and selected what you wanted.

You weren’t allowed to enter loud areas without earplugs, and there were dispensers located next to the entrances. Once I noticed that a dispenser was empty, and I reported it and it was filled instantly. They held meetings to teach us the proper way to put in earplugs.
This warehouse was located in the Nevada desert. In the summer, it did get hot. They brought in huge swamp coolers to fight the heat. Amazon DCs are over one million square feet, difficult to air condition to say the least.
If anybody was hurt for any reason, even soreness from repeated motion, they held and investigation, interviewed you, changed the work station, or reassigned you. Coaches came by once a week and asked if you had any soreness.

Employees were held responsible for the unsafe behavior of other employees, if they witnessed something unsafe but didn’t stop or report it.
You had to have a special badge and certification training to climb a ladder.
If you got cut, you were instructed to stay in place to prevent slip and biohazard dangers from drips of blood. The first aid would be brought to you.
Anything you could possibly bump your head on was padded and wrapped in hazard tape.

All forklift/mobile equipment operators were drug tested regularly, including for alcohol, and any area with mobile equipment was marked off.
There were areas you weren’t allowed to enter, and then if there was a pedestrian crossing, the mobile equipment had to stop and honk their horn, even if nobody was there.
They also had to stop and honk at every intersection.

They were proud of the fact that it was safer to work in an Amazon warehouse than it was to work at Wal-Mart.

Look, I’m not some big Amazon devotee, but as someone who’s worked their whole lives in dangerous warehouses, this was the absolute safest industrial setting I’ve ever been in and there’s no way this graphic is true.