Now We Know Why Things Are So Cheap At Amazon

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25034598

This is why I won't shop at Amazon. Its little better than slave labour. No unions as well, so nothing to stop Amazon getting away with this. Watch Panorama tonight.

[bednobs]

What are pinko`s?

[ummmm]

I think they are leftie liberals...or something like that.

[emmie]

mikey, wrong in many ways, the documentary i suggested you watched was the one featured fairly recently on factories in Pakistan, most of the employees were adults not children. I caught ten minutes of this programme, not a nice environment if you are having to race around for 10 hours, surely there are various breaks in the middle, otherwise going on my working experience in health and safety, they are breaking the rules. Why didn't or couldn't they have got a broader picture of people working there, it looks like one of the BBC's somewhat narrow views on a particular matter, they have done this before, rather a pick and choosy viewpoint. I would like to see other factory outlets and not just Amazon on their working conditions in UK to see if they measure up in their working conditions, but it does seem rather a repetitive and dull job notwithstanding.

[emmie]

and svejk made an excellent point, one i could have made, that many on this site and those on the news, read in papers advocate getting so called lazy Brits off the dole into any kind of work to pay for their dole money, oh ho ho, can't have it both ways. The guy featured was just one, some others may have a different viewpoint on the place, working conditions, he was a graduate, perhaps he thought the work beneath him for the short time he was there. If it's Christmas type work, he could try the Royal Mail, they always used to look for staff over that period, or indeed volunteering in any place that needs a helping hand.

[bazwillrun]

@khandro

"It was a patronising effort by BBC overpaid pinkos attempting to appear concerned for the working classes, while profiting themselves from the making of the programme"

exactly...but most people are fully aware of the Blatantly Biased Clowns agenda

[Khandro]

Quite, emmie, and a brisk walking pace is about 5mph, he was supposed to have been charging about relentlessly for 11 hours, so why did he only cover 11 miles? Also we got a close-up of the blister on his foot!!! -wrong shoes perhaps?

[emmie]

no idea, i confess it does seem very repetitive, but i have done far worse jobs than that, and for a whole lot less money.

[FredPuli43]

Be fair baz. They've spent to money on buying or commissioning the programme, and it's given us something to talk about. It's a branch of entertainment, just as much as so much of what the popular press is. One paper in particular specialises in creating fear worry and disgust on no evidence or no real evidence. This story is just a version of that.