I was stunned by the corporation biased “report” or was it a paid PR piece.

Shouldn't this segment have a "paid promotion" disclaimer?!?

@Joe33305

3 жыл бұрын

Why?

@angelmireles1275

3 жыл бұрын

@@Joe33305 because the majority of the points were positive than negative. The main person that the journalist was talking to was a representative of Amazon. He should have talk to people that were victims or even current labor employees of the company. He only talked to admin than the actual worker.

@ruthpittman4079

3 жыл бұрын

@@angelmireles1275 I did not watch this Amazon commercial masquerading as some kind of 'news' story this morning. Super disappointed in David & CBS Sunday Morning. A KZreadr is going to be inspired by their regular product & do a better job than they are & steal their customers who do Not appreciate this kind of BS corporate advocacy. I have watched this show pretty faithfully since Kuralt Not happy with the direction the show is taking when it does things like this. If someone on KZread offers a similar product I will definitely jump ship!

@Joe33305

3 жыл бұрын

@@angelmireles1275 shouldn’t we remember freedom of choice. If the workers feel this company is not for them, shouldn’t they move on to other opportunities?

@ChiselMouse

3 жыл бұрын

Everyone already knows that CBS is bunk

"Safety is our top priority with our employees..." This guy looks like he'd sell you land off the coast of Florida.

@projectfreedom9510

3 жыл бұрын

Safety is also a choice you make at your work place. It's a responsibility. They can only hold your hand and teach it so much.

@8000RPM.

3 жыл бұрын

@@projectfreedom9510 From what I hear, Amazon pushes their employees to do too much, too fast.

@vshah1010

3 жыл бұрын

The robots are slow now, but Amazon will want the robots to be faster. The robots will get faster than people eventually.

Kermit, Ernie and Burt will be replacing humans within 5 to 10 years.

@cyborgclarke

3 жыл бұрын

I sure hope so

@vshah1010

3 жыл бұрын

4:05 Theresa can recognize which items to take. Otherwise, there would be a robot there.

My son's best friend lasted about 1 full month at an Amazon fulfillment center. He came home after his shifts feeling like he had been run over. The pace was so fast, he simply couldn't keep up. When he complained, he was terminated. By the way, he is fit, and in his early 20's.

@christinatolar4155

3 жыл бұрын

@@BayMacDre415 You're an idiot. It's not my son, it was his best friend. Learn to read before attacking like a rabid dog.

@Juan-dc6yf

Жыл бұрын

I work there. You got moms in their early 50s there so somethings wrong with your friends bitchboy

Jobs never disappear, they simply change. Robots allow people to do work which is more fitting for a human. You can't convince me that flipping a hamburger all day, or pulling thorns out of a tuft of cotton, is a suitable job for a human. If you said 40 years ago that someone could make a career out of being a KZread personality, or that artists could depend on their passions for paying their bills, or that people could train for careers such as being a full-time masseuse, you would sound insane... I recognize that KZread didn't exist back then, but the point is that automation frees up our time to be spent on more engaging activities, so that we don't have to do the dull/mundane/and dangerous work anymore.

@spacenodus7959

3 жыл бұрын

Robots will make people go for intellectual jobs , the problem is that not all the people have the capacities to do those jobs tho

@edenassos

3 жыл бұрын

@@spacenodus7959 Naturale selezione.

@vshah1010

7 ай бұрын

The warehouse workers are never going to do more fulfilling work just because robots are doing more things. Just because robots bring the items to them, it doesn't make their job easier or more skilled or doing thinking work. The robots are not allowing people to do more work that is "more fitting for a human". They still have to grab items at a fast paced and do very physically exhausting work. The robots aren't freeing people to do more intelligent work. They are just _changing the location_ of the unskilled and physically demanding work.

I've worked in factories as a RSI (repetitive strain injury) mitigation engineer for a while, and pretty much none of anything I just saw was very impressive. Other than the LIDAR guided bots, lots of assembly facilities across the US are using these same systems to move product around their facilities. What I did see is that the columns of bins in these places were at heights WAY outside of the limits we set for ourselves at the facility I work at. Nobody should ever have to reach up or bend down 100+ times a day to do their job. This should be obvious to anyone on their team.

@dojo3175

Жыл бұрын

I know you're the expert but if this is the example you use to argue that Amazon is mistreating their employees, nobody should ever listen to anything you say in your profession. Parent a couple of babies or toddlers snd you'll do what you describe at least 200 times a day. People are so weak and whiny today and Amazon should switch to robots asap

In the mid 1970’s, the United Auto Workers union at most of Michigan’s automotive assembly plants. Sold the idea to its union members, that robots will assist in building the car. That their jobs are safe. As technology progressed through the decades. Fewer and fewer people were on the assembly line. More and more robots are being used. At one factory in Michigan there is a room in the middle of the plant. One person sits there watching monitors and listening for alarms. When an alarm sounds. The entire line stops and usually means a robot is stuck in one place. The operator goes to the robot with a rubber sledgehammer to force the robot arm to move. A couple of hard smacks to the arm joint. The robot can move. The operator returns to the middle room and hit the go button. Then waits for the next alarm.

@Brandon_letsgo

3 жыл бұрын

That's good. That's what makes a much better 0km car costs only US$13.000. Today, with a little over US$18.000 a really god and modern brand new car.

The Amazonians don’t move that slow when management says it’s “Vital” and move faster. How about trainers on the floor to back up the “Industrial Athlete” that’s going to fast!

“Worker abuse claims? Let’s go to the company reps for the full story.” This kind of golly gee stenography reporting is a great disservice to your viewers, and the working people who rely on journalists to find the real story behind the company line. Do better.

@DavidPogue

3 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure what you mean. The story BEGINS with an Amazon employee describing her miserable experience...and is quickly followed up by the Washington Post article that reveals Amazon's 2X injury rate. Those are definitely not Amazon reps!

@larrysouthern5098

3 жыл бұрын

Yep... 👀

@ChiselMouse

3 жыл бұрын

There's no longer much integrity in most journalism.

Should have interviewed workers outside the building to get the real story.

The firs thingt that comes to my mind is the " exo skeletal" robots that workers can "wear"to help the workers lift hundreds of pounds of boxes at a time!!! Eventually all those human workers will be replaced by fully humanoid robots like you see in Boston Dynamics videos...yep .... Its coming..real soon.... 👀

@tonycruz6183

2 жыл бұрын

Legit🔥

yep, they are creating better working conditions by eliminating jobs with robots.

You don't NEED Amazon. You can live beautifully without them.

@BayMacDre415

3 жыл бұрын

why boycott a company which just connects small business owners to customers?

@BayMacDre415

3 жыл бұрын

Amazon barely makes any money on every sale which goes through their system. They are the absolute lowest-cost avenue for small businesses to get their product out, without paying massive commissions to a brick & mortar distribution like Target or Walmart.

@edenassos

3 жыл бұрын

Be quiet, Annie. Michael Jackson didn't ask for your opinion.

@shawnryan2197

2 жыл бұрын

I'm a big fan of Amazon. Why wouldn't I love overnight delivery and good prices?

@edenassos

2 жыл бұрын

@@BayMacDre415 Now this woman knows her stuff. I pity you for being the same gender as the one above.

Wouldn’t it be amazing if his rocket exploded?

200 pieces an hour is too much. 😶😣

@rbeattymd

3 жыл бұрын

340/hour less than 10 seconds to pick the item and place it in the tote

After seeing Rachel Maddow's discussion about the NY Times reporting of what Amazon employees go through, it is disappointing that this segment is so soft. And after seeing John Oliver's reporting on Sponsored Content, this segment is almost an advertisement for Amazon. Very disappointing.

Interesting tech to figure out the ergonomics of what most workers could tell you on day one of their job! Pushing humans to and beyond their physical limits with or without real ergonomic improvements is still abhorrent.

We are living in Pixar’s WALL-E...

There are at least some people that can see right through Amazon. The headline about injuries didn't hurt. They couldn't care less. It's a shame more people haven't woken up to realize how dangerous it is having such a massive amount of commerce being controlled by just a couple companies like Amazon and Walmart. And twice the national minimum wage is peanuts anymore. Not worth wrecking your body for. The number one way they're "working on the safety problem" is by trying to get human workers out of the equation altogether.

@8000RPM.

3 жыл бұрын

You're right on target! Notice they had an IT person, not a safety specialist, speaking.

@ctgottapee

3 жыл бұрын

So it was better in the past??

I was a picker at Amazon for 2 weeks. I was trained for 4 hours, never met my manager, and had to walk 2 football fields to the break room only to have an actual 5 min of break just to walk back. Worst job ever. They didn’t make the robots to make it easier for the human. They made the robot to make the human work faster in a shorter amount of time.

@basilrose

3 жыл бұрын

^Exactly this: "They didn’t make the robots to make it easier for the human. They made the robot to make the human work faster in a shorter amount of time."

@aydanr3523

3 жыл бұрын

Now having read the articles that came out today this was a pure bluffer and vanity segment paid for by Amazon

@Brandon_letsgo

3 жыл бұрын

@@aydanr3523 Well, feel free to go work elsewhere making only 10 bucks per hour, with NO 401K and much worse healthcare insurance(in a lot of places you'll get no healthcare at all).

@deacrackizzati

3 жыл бұрын

You clearly didn’t actually pay attention to your training because it technically lasts 3 days and the computer module is longer than 4 hours 🤷‍♀️

They could eliminate all injuries in their warehouses by completely automating them.

@barbaraallen7164

3 жыл бұрын

That's right, replace humans, that would fix everything, and we can watch unemployment rise. Then who's buying cheap made in china amazon junk?

@bbmw9029

3 жыл бұрын

@@barbaraallen7164 If they want to keep their jobs, maybe they shouldn't be bitching about them. If they drive up their cost of employment, it gives Amazon more reason to automate the jobs out of existence.

@rolandlymangrover754

3 жыл бұрын

@@bbmw9029 they're going to do it regardless

@bbmw9029

3 жыл бұрын

@@rolandlymangrover754 Probably. But while an automated system is cheaper to operation, it cost more upfront. So if you push up the operating costs of using human workers, it makes the case for automating stronger.

@RajSachdeva

3 жыл бұрын

@@barbaraallen7164 I agree with you . We can pretend that's is not going to happen just like it happened to bank tellers cashier self check out etc. We need a UBI plan for people making less than living wage. Unlike unemployment which discourage people not to look for job because they will loose benefits.

That's a lot of batteries

No matter what company it is there are always workers that feel they are being taken advantage of! Worked in corporate America for 30 years, always in the plant everyday, had lots of friends there, they’ll tell you the same thing about the crybabies, because they have to pick up their work cause they are too busy wining or just not showing up!

Regardless of what anyone says, considering where we live, if we didn’t have Amazon there wouldn’t be very many places to shop.

@thewillow3457

2 жыл бұрын

or work

@montiro8999

Жыл бұрын

Before Amazon there were all small shops that offered the same that amazon offers or even better. Now amazon acts as an monopoly

They made sure the honest employees weren't working the day the reporter was on site.

Let’s name the monster robot a friendly name so workers feel comfortable working alongside it until it’s sensors fail and crush them.

Is Amazon paying for naming their robots after Muppets?🐸☕

@trekre1

3 жыл бұрын

Bert and Ernie aren't Muppets.

@RobsRobotChannel

3 жыл бұрын

You can't copyright a name...

@ag-bk5wf

3 жыл бұрын

They are nicknames..

How about a report on people that fake their injuries? My grandfather mowed lawns into his 80s and lived to be 91. Never complained about work. Was sad when he had to stop.

@Tamar-sz8ox

3 жыл бұрын

My dad was a union dock worker his whole life. My mom was a union seamstress. / perhaps the difference now is how fast customers expect their product. ? It is truly alarming how so many workers could be displaced by automation 🤖

@thebeast9869

2 жыл бұрын

Wowwwwww seems like a really hardworker mowing lawns these are serious injuries people who have never worked in a warehouse wouldn't understand how dangerous and demanding these sort of jobs can be.

The robots bring the bottle to you so you can pee and not leave your station.

Telling that this fluff piece comes out the same time as the report of the High Injury Rate of its human workers.

Just a matter of time before all are replaced bye robots😢

Now there will be robots that let the workers use them as a bathroom to reduce the need for breaks. What Sesame Street character will Amazon name that robot?

@AndyCutright

3 жыл бұрын

Groper.

@AndyCutright

3 жыл бұрын

Dookie Monster.

@dianne8340

3 жыл бұрын

Pisspod!

We had this technology in 1987 to 2000 at etoys. We had product and picture. Employee had to pick product with picture. We had software error which text was working but gif image discontented to product. The employees couldnt’ read , but the saw the image or picture, we were good. The dial up days. Today, I am security tech and used this experience in my security systems... Downey California

If they start implementing robots like they do at Ocado in the UK, people will really need to start worrying about their jobs.

@RobsRobotChannel

3 жыл бұрын

Jobs never disappear, they simply change. Robots allow people to do work which is more fitting for a human. You can't convince me that flipping a hamburger all day, or pulling thorns out of a tuft of cotton, is a suitable job for a human. If you said 40 years ago that someone could make a career out of being a KZread personality, or that artists could depend on their passions for paying their bills, or that people could train for careers such as being a full-time masseuse, you would sound insane... I recognize that KZread didn't exist back then, but the point is that automation frees up our time to be spent on more engaging activities, so that we don't have to do the dull/mundane/and dangerous work anymore.

@hubert187

3 жыл бұрын

@@RobsRobotChannel When the car replaced the horse, there really had a lot of horse jobs left.

Why do you not enable Closed Captioning for the hearing impaired?

@spacenodus7959

3 жыл бұрын

If you want to know samsung has a feature that let you have subtitles for every videos even if they don't have it

Can a news segment be written and presented any more remedial?

We should have the same media attention for people working out in the fields

So watching this if I was young. I would go to school and learn how to fix these robots.

The car has replaced the horse drawn cart

Typical humans. Don’t use automation and you’re accused of overworking employees. Introduce automation and you’re questioned if your plan is to get rid of the employees.

Those sensors are not there to guarantee safety or health but to monitor every single movement of the employee. You just can't take a break without that being recorded. This system will generate metrics to select the most active collaborators, inspiring competition and behavior that is detrimental to the employee's health.

if that's Ernie, let us see Big Bird and Snuffleupagus.

@vshah1010

3 жыл бұрын

They are helping at the trailers. You need bigger robots that can lift heavier packages there.

Stunning feel good piece on the company who deliberately doesn’t buy enough desks for its offices so it’s employees have to work in the bathrooms 🥰

Try running into the robot at a close face paced range

You will still get injuries standing for 9 hours a day pushing a button. This is changing one repetitive motion for the next. Now if the button moves around to change your motion every interaction then maybe that will help but then there is more labor and people will complain.

Sesame street, should sue for seize and diesis of corrupt infringement of there brand.

Nice. Robots won't bump into people but nothing stopping people to bumping into them. I hope robot has insurance.🤔🤔

So they keep replacing people with the robots. Then putting these sensors on them. They can use those to make sure that every moment they do is productive.

Jim Henson is turning in his grave

Isn't carrying stuff and walking good exercise for the employees (and all people)??

@RobsRobotChannel

3 жыл бұрын

lol

@cyborgclarke

3 жыл бұрын

Not in America, remember its America land of the FAT and LAZY

@coolminer6242

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, in certain circumstances. Sometimes you can move your body in unnatural ways and can then put unnecessary stress upon your joints and muscles.

@edenassos

3 жыл бұрын

@@cyborgclarke Half of them couldn't even run 5 meters without tripping over their belly.

What a nicely CURATED segment!

I know all I need to know about Amazon and the owner.

We miss all the shopping malls and pleasure of browsing things we want to buy. And Amazon has got rid of all of these, most of all, forcing to close down all the small businesses.

I work night shifts at an Amazon Delivery Center in Germany to cover my living expenses while pursuing my master's degree. It's a physically demanding job. Although managers and supervisors discuss safety during daily meetings, in reality, when there's pressure or machine failures causing delays, workers resort to extreme and dangerous measures not typically seen in the logistics industry. They exert intense pressure on us to work faster, often using the threat of monitoring through our Zebra gadgets, which transmit data to the central system. Despite being athletic, I've sustained injuries to my wrists, elbows, shoulders, and back after four months on the job. The excessive hours and stress inflicted by managers and supervisors have also taken a toll on my psychological well-being. At times, their behavior brings to mind scenes from slavery movies, where masters mercilessly whip their slaves.

They should have these people work on the line for a week, to see what it’s really like.

Hanzhen harmonic drive gear , over 30 years experience in industrial robot arm gear reducer, factory automation

Don't worry, robots will eventually do everything.

it might be a dystopian nightmare but at least they call it a fulfillment center instead of a warehouse right?

@edenassos

3 жыл бұрын

Utopian**, if you don't like it, you don't have to be here(by here I mean Earth).

I love how it was the Washington Post…

I did not watch this Amazon commercial masquerading as some kind of 'news' story this morning. (Nor here either.) Super disappointed in David & CBS Sunday Morning. A KZreadr is going to be inspired by your regular product & do a better job than you and steal your customers who do Not appreciate this kind of BS corporate advocacy. I have watched this show pretty faithfully since Kuralt Not happy with the direction the show is taking when it does things like this. If someone on KZread offers a similar product I will definitely jump ship!

Paid ad for Amazon?

et tu Jane Pauley? How the mighty have fallen...

Sesame Street Names? Smart? It ain't an evil robot anymore. It's a tv childhood friend who taught you morals and how to read ;)

To cut injuries by 50%, they'll probably cut the current workforce by 50%. Why wouldn't the most profitable operation in the world want to get rid of employees?

As robots displace more and more human workers, people need to figure out other methods of generating income. Let's hope Amazon can be part of the solution rather than the problem.

@huberlukeable

3 жыл бұрын

You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

@Lp78Ch

3 жыл бұрын

@@huberlukeable And you do? Hahahahahaha

@huberlukeable

3 жыл бұрын

@@Lp78Ch I'm an Amazon Robotics technician.

@AndyCutright

3 жыл бұрын

Folks have always feared automation. Generally automation creates more jobs. ATM's allow banks to open more branches for instances, and they end up employing more folks. Some automation undoubtedly leads to folks losing jobs, especially in older industries. One thing most folks don't know about Amazon is that about 10-12% of their revenue is from 'renting' computers through Amazon Web Services (AWS). When folks talk about the cloud, a big part of that is AWS. AWS enables millions of businesses to grow and thrive without having to invest in expensive 'real' computing resources or data center space. Netflix hosts a huge portion of its infrastructure in Amazon's cloud, and so do millions of small businesses all over the world.

@AndyCutright

3 жыл бұрын

@@huberlukeable What sorta work do you do?

6:25 anddd they’re cheaper 🤩

All those employees in this video will soon be replaced. Then what are they going to complain about?

@HardKore5250

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe by 2025.

Inventive.

A very systematic idea to help reduce workers compensation.Yes,worker compensation is not where you want to be.. it's a trap you pay into the system but you a considered a victim of beuractacy at that point You are more than infraction when you become this target a target of disbelief,and a problem.Omit the problem of having cases of workers compensation.Is this a good idea,time will tell.Its cheaper to fix or replace a robot than the other way around! Yes it will help the company to benefit it self.Aftet all alleviate the issue at hand.There are those who will say you are putting help out of employment.Look at it from a different advantage point,a higher educated person will benefit society.It starts at the ground level parents to family,family to community community to society to charity and beyond. My opinion only.

If you do not like your job,, go look for another. Amazon is a new industry and growing very fast. They are not perfect. They are trying different things to change . What more can you ask. Plus how many workers may try to scam the company?

The motion capture is just collecting free data to build humanoid robots to replace the human workers :D. As a future roboticist that is what I would do with the data, you really think Amazon is not going to do the same.

👍

"The sea was angry that day my friends, like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli."

Sad

Wagies getting replaced

Jeff Won't need to pay a robot $15....Robots have been "on the move" for decades so this isn't a surprise. My father an automotive engineer helped his company to decrease employees starting in 80s.....New couple billion dollar facility near Detroit will employee around 130.

Seen variety amazon videos with delivery and now warehouse changes. so this billion dollar company need to fix alot before they loose alot help.

Damn you have to give props I mean this technology is incredible. Way to organize a warehouse.

These are starter jobs not meant to be long term careers. No human body can take that much daily punishment without getting some kind of strain or injury.

@appnzllr

3 жыл бұрын

The starter jobs don't go anywhere. Amazon is designed to obstruct hourly workers from moving up in the company. Read the NY Times reporting.

@thebeast9869

2 жыл бұрын

100% but not 100% will escape them sort of jobs

Nice to see CBS schilling the propaganda for Amazon. Well done.

@IpSyCo

3 жыл бұрын

Sometimes the facts are inconsistent with your grip on reality.

@herm43506

3 жыл бұрын

Sometimes the company line is just that, what the company will tell you. Notice they didn’t actually talk to any current employees about conditions? Countless reports from former employees about abysmal working conditions inside the facilities and drivers delivering for Amazon paint a more complete picture.

Safe pace at amazon hahahaha no such thing unless you're a manager

SMH! I was going to work for Amazon. And it is a work load and heavy load.

The robots will replace all the workers that lose their jobs.

Time to make owners of robots have to pay a tax to use them in businesses and then that tax can go to making a UBI. Otherwise no one will have any income after the robots take their jobs. Look at Wal-Mart for example soon they won't need stockers, truck drivers or cashiers. The cashiers are already almost gone, after self driving trucks and robot stockers no one will be needed.

@oldcountryman2795

3 жыл бұрын

Robot designers, programmers and repairmen will be working every day. We'll just need to prohibit people drawing UBI from having children.

@edenassos

3 жыл бұрын

Lol why, they can adapt and get new jobs. Don't want to? Then naturale selezione is waiting.

PR lies.

All melted Hershey bars in the “break room” vending machines at the warehouse I delivered from

They treat their robots better than their employees. I'd never shop with Amazon.

@edenassos

3 жыл бұрын

Boo hoo.

Thank you, Amazon robots for shipping out all of my gifts, as well as most of the gifts I sent out to people in need, as well as for their birthdays and for the holidays.

Aside the PR stuff, we have to allow a concession for this, it’s interesting subject. I can see Amazon obliterating the overseas competition in due time, unless the competition engages in the same R&D spending Amazon does. Props again to CBS for the editing and context.

I wouldn't work for Amazon, if I was offer 30 dollars an hour

They were horrible to work for for more social reasons. Never Again!

With these robotics, the cost of your items will be cheaper. Workers demanding to unionize tend to force these bigger companies to go automation, which leads to less workers needed.

Wow there complain about Amazon target distribution it worst

Amazon is currently building a Super Center in Tracy Ca which will be mostly robotic. As workers complain and ask for higher wages, robots will slide right in to replace you. They will be used as RoboCops as well.

@vshah1010

3 жыл бұрын

They will become robot overlords, like the movie "Robot Overlords". That would be scary.

Goodbye small business and having a wide array of employers to negotiate pay with and to pick from.

No, cuz they can make them work 24/7 so just trying to replace pple

What a bunch of BS smoke and mirrors but when a company can sell things at lowest prices around the BS becomes irrelevant 🤔.

Brilliant job. Thanks

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