Wow. This is some Orwellian nightmare fuel. I can see this becoming a thing in a lot of places if this is allowed
I refuse to believe that Amazon is real anymore.
Does your employer reallly have the right to fire you because you sing in his car ? Is it legal in the US ?
Everything is legal in the usa for corporations and the rich. Just a little itsy fine to pay and then you never hear about it again, even though they don’t stop
It might open an unwanted can of worms but maybe the drivers could claim they aren’t
signingsinging 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
claim they aren’t signing along to the radio
I mean…if they’re signing along to the radio, I’d say that’s really dangerous and needs to be cracked down on! Can’t sign sign language with both hands on the wheel after all!
Singing should be absolutely fine though.
It’s safe to sign while driving but only if you’re blind.
Amazon is trying to be the government
It’s 1964, you read this in a short story. You think its funny impossible distopia.
20 years left to go…
Phillip K Dick would be out of a job in 2024.
Was it in “Ubik” that people had to pay a fee every time they wanted to use their domestic appliances or even open the door to their own house?
Slight clarification to the headline: it’s not the employee’s cars they can’t sing in, it’s Amazon’s.
Not that it makes it better, but my first thought was, “how would they know…?”
Aren’t the trucks independently owned, and contracted to Amazon?
They’ve been claiming that, but the NLRB recently found that drivers are employees and able to join the Teamsters.
Amazon is committing terrorism against themselves.
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.
Until we can make crossing those lines painful for those companies, they’ll keep doing it. Unfortunately, I think convenience is always going to beat morality if you leave it to “voting with your dollar”, we need actual regulations from our governments to combat this shit.
It’s just that most people just genuinely don’t care enough about what’s happening to other people enough to do anything beyond just saying that Amazon is bad. On top of that as Amazon starts to drive other stores out of business it does start to slowly become the only choice for getting certain things. So with those two combined expecting personal consumer choice to really make a difference is not realistic, this is the kind of thing that needs the government to intervene on to force Amazon to unionize and to potentially break it up like is being discussed with Google.
If the workforce was 100% unionized, they may realize they don’t need bosses. There’s a word for this, but I can’t think of it right now.
If it’s step 1, cooperatives. If it’s step 2, communism.
Yeah, we should totally stop eating to show the grocery stores they can’t control their employees. /s
“You really think you can tell me what I can do with my body?”
REPUBLICAN PARTY has entered the chat…
I mean Amazon started it’s driving program to undercut UPS -A union shop. How is this not just scabs getting their comeuppance?
Did you really just blame the drivers for this?
The non-union drivers in cooperation with Amazon* actively undermined another established union. Sure, yeah. I’d say until they organize or shut-down, they can share some of the blame.
There is no game-changing paradigm shift to Amazons delivery driver business model. It was always simply to undercut an established middle-man that already had unionized. It’s just deregulation & union-busting with an extra degree of separation. It’s disappointing that so many laborers don’t recognize this.
100 percent
The National Labor Relations Board recently ruled that Amazon was illegally blocking delivery workers from unionizing. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/08/labor-board-confirms-amazon-drivers-are-employees-in-finding-hailed-by-union/
I bet this is monitored by AI software
I recall several cases of “copyright infringement” that this reminds me of.
One case was an auto-shop that was just playing music on their stereo system or whatever
another case was an elderly couple that liked to sing songs together
we really have to get the DMCA under control. it does way more harm than good
Amen. If we could get a community against this going, it would be a first step. Would you like to help with such a thing. Lets be the change we want to see.
My nasal passages aren’t properly developed or something so I have to regularly breathe through my mouth. Wonder if anyone can use that, a medical disorder, to sue after being fired.
