Hayley Peterson, Business Insider:
Amazon uses fake packages to catch delivery drivers who are stealing, according to sources with knowledge of the practice.
The company plants the packages — internally referred to as “dummy” packages — in the trucks of drivers at random. The dummy packages have fake labels and are often empty.
Interesting read. You’d think this sort of strategy would stop working once word got out. But, since word getting out was intentional (Amazon commented for the record), perhaps putting this out there was the core of Amazon’s theft reduction strategy.
Amazon ruined my town with its behemoth warehouses, built with bribed variances towards environmental laws, and treating workers like chattel.
Try getting enough hours to get benefits. Oh, you can’t? Put more pressure on the benefits system that the republicans want to eliminate.
Oh, drivers? Ask the driver who seriously injured his hand and having the Amazon dispatcher telling him to finish your route before seeking medical attention.
Hey Alexa, go fuck yourself.
It can’t stop working once word gets out other than by … stopping theft entirely, which is “working”!
(Because a package with a fake label should look just like a real one, obviously, and many “real” packages feel pretty empty, because of high-value low-weight electronics…)