By Gabriel Princewill-
Amazon has cameras that monitor its employees, including positions outside toilets, a former employee has told The Eye Of Media.Com.
Steven Smith who was sacked by Amazon after 6 weeks of employment, told The Eye Of media.Com that cameras placed outside toilets timed employees who went to the toilet to establish whether they took too many breaks. Smith said it was called something like ”Taxt Time”.
The currently unemployed Thorpe Bay man was referred to The Eye Of Media.Com by current employees who told us ”this bloke will gladly talk to you. He has been looking for an outlet to vent his anger on how he was treated.
Smith said the company has rotating cameras that keep employees in check whenever employees took a toilet break. Lamenting the excessive scrutiny Amazon employees are routinely subjected to on a daily basis, he said :
” They had tabs on our every move. It felt like big brother in there. One of the reasons Amazon sacked me was because I apparently took too many breaks. We were meant to just go in and come out, no more than a few minutes. I don’t think I ever spent too long in the toilets.
Amazon told The Eye Of Media.Com that their in house cameras serve security purposes. Smith adamantly refutes this claim when depicting a regime he compares to a prison.
”There are cameras everywhere. Security is well covered with cameras, the cameras outside the toilets are there to watch how long we spend there, they are not for security. There are plenty of cameras in Amazon to take care of security, but the cameras outside the toilets are there to monitor us. They capture the moment everyone goes in the toilet and when they come out.
When I was working there, the toilets on the downstairs floor were not working, I had to work a distance to find one working. It was tiring for me. We were told that someone is always watching the cameras”.
INQUIRIES
Smith’s claim is supported by other inquiries made by The Eye Of media.Com. A number of other employees confirmed the presence of functional rotating cameras positioned at various corners of the Tilbury site, where 7,000 employees head to earn a living on a daily basis.
The Eye Of Media.Com reported last week how Smith exposed the dodgy computers used by a firm known for its world class entrepreneurship , and periodic diversification in investments and inventions.
STRESS
Smith says over 30 people have walked out of Amazon Tilbury in the past three months due to the sheer stress and monotony of the job. Other employees but the estimated figure of walkouts at 1,000. With a workforce of 7,000 employees in Tilbury, Amazon representatives argue that the proportion of those that have remained in the company far outweigh those that have walked out.
This may be true, yet the it will be quite disturbing if such a high percentage of Amazon’s employees in Tilbury are calling time on their employment there because of a tedious ten hour regime for inconsolable pay.
WORLD CLASS
Amazon has always been considered to be a world class organisation that has achieved exploits in its business endeavours. The scale of its operations has been admirably expansive over several decades, making it one of the leading commercial innovators today.
It nevertheless makes one sigh to learn of its overly regimented practise of rigid labour with little respite. Another disgruntled former employee who spoke on the condition of anonymity told The Eye Of Media.Com :
”this is just capitalism in operation. They want to produce maximum revenues at minimum costs in order to keep their profit margins as high as possible.
”It’s just not for me, I couldn’t work that long for that kind of pay. I am back on the dole until I can find another job”.
Amazon Tilbury have been made fully aware of the allegations made by Smith to The Eye Of Media.Com, but have not addressed his claims about dodgy computers.