The 2012 first-person account in Mother Jones2 detailed the week reporter Mac McClelland spent working in a warehouse for “Amalgamated Product Giant Shipping Worldwide Inc.,” generally understood to be lawsuit-avoidant shorthand for Amazon: The culture is intense, an Amalgamated higher-up acknowledges at the beginning of our training.… We don’t want to be so intense, the higher-up says. But our customers demand it.… The gal conducting our training reminds us again that we cannot miss any days our first week. There are NO exceptions to this policy. She says to take Brian, for example, who’s
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