‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility. A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away. [cw death] (www.thewesternedge.media)

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For more than an hour, several employees said, workers in the facility were instructed to continue fetching totes, picking items off shelves and loading them onto trucks for delivery as the man lay dead, and management figured out their next steps.

Within moments of the man hitting the floor, Sam said a woman ran over and began performing chest compressions. The woman began to cry and screamed out for someone to help her.

Sam, who has CPR training, asked her supervisor if she could assist. The supervisor watched the woman heaving her weight into the man’s chest and gave no response.

“I start sobbing and said, ‘I want to help, please!’ I know she’s going to get tired and need to be subbed out,” Sam told The Western Edge.

The supervisor, who Sam perceived to be in shock, had a simple reply: “It has to be management or safety team. Please get back to work.”

“I need to help,” Sam said.

“Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work,” Sam recalled the manager saying.

As Sam stood in disbelief watching the woman give chest compressions, the supervisor softly nudged Sam, tears in the manager’s eyes now, too.

“Please,” the supervisor said, encouraging Sam to keep working. Eventually, paramedics showed up and the section of the warehouse where the man lay was closed off.

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[-] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago

There was someone who jumped off the top floor of an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas about 5 years ago, they put caution tape up and kept the building operating for another few hours.

[-] Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 1 week ago

The Amazon HR Handbook has a whole section titled "The Chief Wiggum Response." Back to work, nothing to see here.

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago

Remind me again why Chamel burnt down warehouses like these

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

But look on the bright side, at least no one’s property rights were violated (don’t ask why this country is proud of the Boston tea party, though.)

[-] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

Someone was literally murdered in the store I used to work at. I was given the rest of the day and the next day off and the store was reopened the second the crime scene cleanup crew (privately contracted of course) was finished half assedly cleaning up the blood.

America is a purely evil place.

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