Amazon's warehouse and delivery workers are "reverse centaurs," monitored by a constellation of apps and cameras, and they are severely punished for falling behind in the cadence set by Amazon's software, and that robot timekeeper does not make allowances for pee breaks:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/23/traveling-salesman-solution/
This isn't a secret, and Amazon's come in for a lot of flack over it. But Amazon's "solution" is to add *more* penalties for peeing.
5/
Cory Doctorow
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