Comedian Sarah Silverman Absolutely Destroys Billionaire Jeff Bezos For Post On Lavish Vacation
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Comedian Sarah Silverman ripped the world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos, for posting pictures of his extravagant dog-sledding vacation in Norway while his employees are forced to take food stamps to get by.
It all started when the Amazon founder, worth $112 billion, posted this:
“Official statistics suggest that 11.8 percent of Amazon’s 6,000 Ohio workers might receive food stamp benefits,” Snopes has reported.
“In five out of these six states, Amazon cracked the top 20 list of companies with the most employees enrolled in the SNAP program,” The Intercept reported, using the acronym for food stamps.
The numbers show that the company relies disproportionately on the program even accounting for its size: Amazon was the 28th largest employer in Arizona last year, but it ranked fifth for the number of employees enrolled in SNAP. It held the fifth slot in Pennsylvania as well, though it’s only the 19th largest employer. In Kansas, where Amazon isn’t even among the top 50 largest employers, it still ranked 17th for the number of employees using SNAP at the beginning of this year. Similarly, the company ranked 53rd in overall employment numbers in Ohio last year but 19th when it came to employees using SNAP. In Washington, where Amazon’s headquarters employ many white-collar workers, its employees were still the 17th most reliant on SNAP over the past four years.
What’s more, a new report by a writer who went undercover in an Amazon warehouse in Britain, said workers there have to urinate in bottles because they have so little time.
“The author James Bloodworth went undercover at an Amazon warehouse in Staffordshire, UK, for a book on low wages in Britain. He found that the warehouse’s fulfillment workers, who run around Amazon’s massive warehouses gathering products for delivery, had a ‘toilet bottle’ system in place because the bathrooms were too sparse to get to quickly,” Business Insider reported.
“For those of us who worked on the top floor, the closest toilets were down four flights of stairs,”Bloodworth told The Sun. “People just peed in bottles because they lived in fear of being disciplined over ‘idle time’ and losing their jobs just because they needed the loo.”
Amazon is known to track how fast its warehouse workers can pick and package items from its shelves, imposing strictly timed breaks and targets. It issues warning points for those who don’t meet its goals or who take extended breaks.