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Unsurprising. I've been told by a relative that worked in an Amazon warehouse that the camera systems overhead (not dissimilar to the type you see in Amazon Go / Amazon Fresh retail stores) are used to issue disciplinary warnings, and it's pretty easy to get issued a warning for completely normal exception-handling behavior.

For instance, the shelved/dry goods sections of Fresh warehouses are notorious for being a trainwreck, with items sort of strewn in the general area of where the inventory/pick list says they should be, rather than being neatly arranged. If an employee on picker duty stands around browsing a shelf too long to find the item they're supposed to grab (but can't find it, because it's been shuffled several feet down the shelf)...the cameras monitoring generates an automated warning that goes to your management. Mark the item as out of stock / missing from inventory instead? Get a warning when someone else finds it and scans it later that day, or when inventory is next reconciled. It's a no-win situation.

parent sithadmin 4 years ago

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