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Hom3r. No one should work like that. I worked for a guy similar to that, but drove all over the UK.
I would start at 5am driving to Thamesmead from Twickenham each day to get Loaded at 6.30am then travel all over UK and not finishing until 8pm at night and then start all over again.

When my wife was nearly killed in a crash, my boss didn't give a damn and threatened me with the sack, it made me ill. I took him to court and won.

Employers will take there workers all the way, as at the end of the day its the profits they make, they thrive - not the worker who works his butt off to live on a measly wage.

You work to live, not the other way round.

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It's not often I'll say this Arthur but you are expertly spot-on with that.

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I watched it yesterday on catch up, them managers wanted a swift kick in the swingers. They were sat at their desks stating how many picks they needed to do, half a point for going home ill, a point for being ill and phoning in, half a point for clocking in 2 minutes late. That place needs a nuke.

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They weren't managers, they were the agency reps. It's their job to 'monitor' (a.k.a. hassle) the workers. If someone's stats were low for the previous day they get off their behinds and go looking for them and 'advise' them of the situation, we got to see that happening on the programme a few times too.

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It's horrible there i work in the Rugeley distribution centre i started as a stower then out of the blue they moved me onto packing and didn't even give me pack school.
Luckily i have previous experience in packing and the girl next to me was quite helpful too.
As you correctly state the heat in there is beyond a joke and you do need to make regular visits to the water station , then you get hassled by either your leader or agency manager.
BBC aren't the only ones who want to show Amazon for their true colours http://www.channel4.com/news/anger-a...ing-conditions

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That's what I was doing - pushing 9 full totes around on the trolley in blistering heat with the managers bipping on in your ear is enough to give you a negative attitude.

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Packing is pretty tough only allowed 3 errors then it's sacked. What grinds me aswell is when they get security to escort released staff out of the centre it must be embarrasing.
What bbc didn't show is when security come around and do a random search on you , this also interferes with you meeting the targets too.

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Yeah I'd forgotten about the random searches, maybe the reporter was lucky enough to not get one - I had 3 or 4 each week.

It turns out that you're not even allowed to wear hoodies in there now. It's too warm for them anyway but apparently people try to smuggle things out in other people's hoods then try to pick them back out if the person manages to clear security.

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They allowed us those santa hats last year but we had to hand them to security upon leaving to be checked and searched.
They said it'll be same policy this year , hoodies aren't allowed but caps are.

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It's still on bbc IPlayer if anyone wants a look.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...ind_the_Click/

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That girl who said it took her 15 minutes to walk to the canteen then 15 minutes back for her half an hour dinner break??????????????? It's never that big is it?

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It was 11 minutes each way in a 30 minute break when I was there. The Swansea place is 3/4 of a mile square and you can only walk along certain routes for H&S reasons.

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Yep normally takes about 5 minutes to walk to canteen but you lose another 5 minutes getting through security so your 30 minute break becomes 15 minutes. I had one 30 min break as i was on 8 hour shifts 5 days a week , 6 with the compulsary overtime they forced us to do.

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Bloody hell and there's only the one canteen?