In the country of odd jobs, high-risk home deliveries, bike rides to please the customer and the employer, this also happens: a big American company, Amazon, or the master of the online sales market, indirectly fires you because you can't keep up with the pace of delivering 150 packages a day, in about six hours of work, equivalent to one delivery every two and a half minutes.
In cities there is traffic, some customers do not open the door quickly, sometimes you have to walk up the stairs, it may take a few minutes to break to go to work. bathroomAmazon and the companies that subcontract with the American giant are not interested in any of this: productivity for each delivery employee is a dogma, and no exceptions are allowed.
Walter De CillisValter, 30, is a worker at Levante Logistica, a company that distributes Amazon packages between the Tuscan provinces of Pisa and Lucca. On several occasions, Valter returned to the warehouse with packages still in his van, which he was unable to deliver. The company's strict procedures were immediately implemented: first a warning, then suspension, and finally dismissal. Finally, a detail that perhaps isn't insignificant: Valter is a union representative who has often protested the brutal pace of Amazon deliveries. Too often.
Cover image source: Corriere della Sera
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