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Amazon Drivers Defecating in Bags? I Believe It!
I’ve never been an Amazon driver. Instead, I was a TV and major appliance tech for a national company. I can relate to what Amazon drivers go through unofficially because the company won’t officially acknowledge it and change the conditions that make such indignities necessary.
During my time on the road, I fortunately never had to poop into a bag, but I did have to pee in a bottle, pee in a fast-food drink cup, pee on the side of the road, and so forth. You get the picture.
All. While. Working.
Why couldn’t I just use a public restroom somewhere like a normal person? In the eyes of the company, the most important thing was getting to the next appointment during the appointment window. Appointments were scheduled tightly, often without even enough time to reasonably drive to the next appointment within the amount of time given. The schedulers did not consider traffic or local conditions. They only considered distance from A to B, and to make things easier to calculate, it was the distance from the center of your current ZIP code to the center of the ZIP code you were going to. As a rough approximation, it probably looked great on paper to the person who designed it. In reality, it meant the day was probably going to be longer than they estimated.
