BBC: Amazon Workers Face "Increased Risk of Mental Illness"

Rambo Tribble writes "The BBC is reporting that an investigation into a UK-based Amazon facility has uncovered conditions that experts believe foster mental illness. At the root of the problem seems to be unreasonable performance expectations combined with a fundamentally dehumanizing environment. From the article: 'Amazon said that official safety inspections had not raised any concerns and that an independent expert appointed by the company advised that the picking job is "similar to jobs in many other industries and does not increase the risk of mental and physical illness."'"

Comments

Re:Amazon brutal, but not a convenient liberal cau

[beelsebob]

It turned into a liberal vs conservative issue because those who aren't in favour of workers not being made ill by their work needed a way to justify that, and therefore did their best to associate it with what's commonly seen as an extreme, and slightly insane political affiliation. They then burned this straw political affiliation man at the steak to demonstrate how dumb it was to support the idea of workers not being made ill by their work.

Re:"similar to"

[jcoy42]

I would argue that very few jobs are actually "good" for you.

But we can't all run around naked in the forest eating nuts and berries.

Quite the conundrum.

Re:Total Crap

[SimonTheSoundMan]

I wouldn't class stress or depression as a mental illness, it is a physical one.

AC, at least the BBC have the balls to do this, unlike other commercial broadcasters.

Re:Remind anyone of Manna?

[OzPeter]

Yes, that was my first thought when reading the article.

And since you did not provide a link here is one for people wondering what we are talking about.

http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

just started reading from that link and then I found this paragraph in the story:

Ultimately, you would expect that there would be riots across America. But the people could not riot. The terrorist scares at the beginning of the century had caused a number of important changes. Eventually, there were video security cameras and microphones covering and recording nearly every square inch of public space in America. There were taps on all phone conversations and Internet messages sniffing for terrorist clues. If anyone thought about starting a protest rally or a riot, or discussed any form of civil disobedience with anyone else, he was branded a terrorist and preemptively put in jail. Combine that with robotic security forces, and riots are impossible.