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Edit: I missed it, not the article.

The article missed AOC's tweet where Amazon themselves noted that they found bags with feces and urine in delivery cars [1,2]

[1] https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1375502593863073792

[2] https://theintercept.com/2021/03/25/amazon-drivers-pee-bottl...

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No, the article explicitly mentions "Amazon’s pushback on the congressman’s comment about workers peeing in bottles also ignited a new news cycle after The Intercept revealed internal Amazon communications acknowledging that contractors who deliver Amazon packages sometimes defecate in bags and urinate in bottles." (with the latter half being a link to that same The Intercept article)

One of the explanations for this is that due to covid most public restaurants/bathrooms were closed, forcing some drivers to resort to alternative means... At the very least I don't think it's fair to jump to any conclusion about Amazon forcing people to pee in bottles.

You also have to realize that a lot of these people are making deliveries in suburban residential neighborhoods where the number of public restrooms rounds off to zero, and you can't just go inside somebody's house.

Given a choice between peeing in a bottle or driving 30 minutes round trip to the nearest public restroom, I'm not about to condemn anyone who picks the first one purely out of convenience.

No one is condemning the drivers for anything.

Boston dynamics and autopilot are about to condemn the drivers...

We cannot put it past that if they not meet the quotas, they will get fired. So its either pee in a cup or get fired.

The Intercept article covers that possibility. The workers they interview say that the issue is the time crunch, not the lack of bathrooms.

Could be related. No time to find s bathroom.

Yep bathrooms are closed so usually most of my drivers pee in a cornfield somewhere and then don't wash their hands at all.

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