We truly live in a boring dystopia

lol “our detection system can’t tell the difference between you talking on the phone and you singing so we need you to keep the data clean by not singing”

Fuuuuck you.

Hey US, how's it going?

Jesus fucking christ...

When we eating the rich? I'm pretty hungry.

I love how the solution is to cram people into smaller and smaller boxes instead of just I dunno not monitoring your fucking drivers like they're fucking inmates in a maximum security prison you fascist-lite fucks

Edit: Good on 'em for quitting. Every single member of the population should refuse to work for these pricks until they get the goddamn message that we're adult fucking humans and we expect to be fucking well treated like it. The fact that some of us have the choice between kowtowing to this or starving is a stain on our society.

Double edit: "I hope you have to drive for Amazon in your retirement" might be a contender for the most horrible thing you could wish on someone in 2024.

I love driving. I've had delivery jobs and I really enjoyed them. There is absolutely no fucking way I'm working for anyone that has a fucking camera pointed at me. That is some fucking bullshit. I can't believe anyone works for that shit hole company and puts up with that garbage. No camera, no microphone. I'll do my job. If you don't trust me to do my job, then it's best for the both of us I'm not there.

I understand needing a job. I've been there. Don't put up with that bullshit, unionize, or find something else. There's jobs out there much better.

On a side note, If you drove holding the steering wheel with your middle fingers out, what kind of punishment would that be?

It's 1964, you read this in a short story. You think its funny impossible distopia.

Oh no, the camera lens broke! Oh well 🤷‍♂️

Seriously though, as a software engineer, this is some grade A USDA choice bullshit. The solution isn’t “don’t move your mouth”. The solution is fix the fucking ML training set.

They've got a lot more resolve than I do. I'd have walked out long before this point, but had I been told that before going out on my run, I would have literally walked out there and then.

I've walked out of jobs for less.

This is absolutely terrible and definitely feels like an invasion of, idk, being a human?! But with that said, even though people find out stuff like this happens to drivers and workers, they still enable it by ordering from Amazon because of convenience.

Until we can pull away on our reliance on these services, the companies are just gonna keep crossing more and more lines because they know they’re getting away with it with their customers.

If you want a robot then hire a robot!

We're trying. We aren't quite there yet. Just keep suffering for a feeew more years, then you won't have to worry about our micromanaging.

You’re driving with a camera fine tuned on your face for the entire trip, set to trigger to your bosses when your face moves.

Not creepy at all.

It might open an unwanted can of worms but maybe the drivers could claim they aren't ~~signing~~ singing along to the radio but are vocalizing actions like Japanese train operators to ensure focus and safety.

Edit: I saw the sing and it opened up my eyes

Soon to be followed by getting a write-up for breaking down crying in your vehicle due to stress and shitty wages.

It's good that Amazon is not dominant in Poland.

Can't restricting mouth movements be seen as a restriction on speech and people's right to talk about and form a union?

Why spend all the money union busting then do shit like this. Won't this just starts another round of unionization?

I know it's not the point, but what happens if you wear a mask? Either a cloth mask, or a Michael Myers mask. They'll probably think "wow, this guy isn't distracted at all! employee of the month!"

I have a drive cam for work that dies something similar. While they don't ding us for singing, they will for everything else like us scratching our ear because it thinks there's an earpiece and we can't have any electronic devices including GPS. But the camera screaming "FOLLOWING DISTANCE" every time we get cut off or a car 3 semi truck lengths away in 25 taps their brakes and forcing us to slam the brakes so we don't get written up is perfectly safe.

Welcome to the new norm, within 10 years every worker will be on camera full shift.

But we're too busy stopping literal fascism and nearly every GOP-packed court will uphold it as perfectly fine and normal for everyone making less than 150k a year.

We were so preoccupied with whether capitalism would replace us with robots, we didn't stop to think if it would turn us into robots.

Yeah singing is terrible for driving... It's much better to be bored to sleep

Wear a mask

But the singing is how I distract myself from not having a pee break for 12 hours and my old soda bottle is almost full so I can't afford to take another piss