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Niki, Knight of the Wayward Bard

(This was another artists DTIYS, go check them out on twitter to see the original https://twitter.com/Shoob_b/status/1421217300447862791)

The wait is finally over! I wanted to post my 300 on twitter at the same time as this one so pretend it says 500- Without further ado, I present Lunch’s 500 follow DTIYS! Rules are simple,

-No time frame

-Change it as much as you like! Just try to keep to the general theme

-Make sure to use the hashtag #lunch500dtiys and @ me somewhere in your post

-Create something you’re proud of, and have fun :D

But do you know how much of Amazon's warehouse workers are actually Amazon employees? Only about 60%. And that's not during the holiday season, when the number of contractors is exponentially higher.

I've worked in a distribution center. For every 30 pickers or packers, there is at least one manger. Those managers are all Amazon employees, meaning the remainder there is gonna be mostly contractors. Again, this is especially true around the holidays. When I worked there in 2017, the contractors had a three strikes rule. Call out for a shift more than three days (not consecutive, just three days any time at all) and you're fired. You have the flu? Fired. You lost your childcare? Fired. You have no transportation to work? Fired.

A truly horrifying number of warehouse employees were living out of their cars, sleeping at the truck stop across the road. A fellow EMT on duty was so incompetent that he gave a hyperglycemic man a candy bar and made him so sick he could have died. They will require their managers to 40 hours a week (over a 3-4 day period), but the second you cross into overtime territory you're made to leave the building or else. A manager once left in the middle of an active medical emergency because she was going to hit double overtime if she didn't, and she didn't want to lose her job.

Amazon is not an ethical company. They do not treat the vast majority of their employees well, not even their managers. I was an EMT on call in a distribution center and every morning a manager came in with steroid cream he needed put on his head because he was losing his hair from the stress. He wasn't even 30 yet. They do not give reasonable accommodation for disabled persons. They do not allow adequate rest times. They make every single employee clock out before they go through security upon leaving, which can take up to 20 minutes because everyone leaves at once. A Supreme Court justice literally decided that was legal--to hold employees in the building on time they aren't being paid.

Amazon is fucking bullshit. The price gouging alone should be enough to not shop with them whenever possible, but their treatment of warehouse employees is despicable. They treat the backbone of the company like worthless, replaceable drones. Fuck Amazon, fuck Bezos, eat the fucking rich.

The wait is finally over! I wanted to post my 300 on twitter at the same time as this one so pretend it says 500- Without further ado, I present Lunch’s 500 follow DTIYS! Rules are simple,

-No time frame

-Change it as much as you like! Just try to keep to the general theme

-Make sure to use the hashtag #lunch500dtiys and @ me somewhere in your post

-Create something you’re proud of, and have fun :D

• The jail is Washington County Detention Center.

• Karas Correctional Health is prescribing the ivermectin.

• The owner and lead physician of Karas Health Care touted the use of ivermectin online and suggested that up to 350 inmates have been given it.

• It's not clear whether or not inmates were warned about ivermectin as treatment for COVID, or what other information about it was given.

• The doctor who prescribed the ivermectin is now under investigation by the state's medical board.