Workers also tended to roll their eyes over the response to the Pennsylvania heatstroke story—specifically, to the idea that this was unusually heinous. Even the highest temperatures mentioned in the Morning Call sounded pretty standard (though unpleasant) to people who’d worked in other warehouses. High temperatures in the summer are normal, because it’s absurdly impractical to air-condition enormous, unshaded, uninsulated warehouses with big open truck bays. That’s kind of a moot point now, anyway—after the bad publicity, Amazon spent $52 million retrofitting most of its US fulfillment
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