Is anyone really surprised that a company that created a billionaire doesn't give a s**t about its employees?

There have been way too many stories about how horrible Amazon treats its employees for them to be anything but SOP for Amazon and is why I absolutely refuse to order anything from their site. The only way to get big companies to admit they are in the wrong and it is not okay is to hit them in the only place they care about; their profits.

Isn't this the same company that told its employees to stay in the path of a tornado where several of them died? This dog bite story is tame compared to that.

I work for a different company. Got bit by a dog. Not only did I have to finish my route but my supervisor actually asked me if that meant I wasn't gonna be able to help out a different driver. Dude, I got bit by a big freaking dog and busted my knee bloody trying to get away.

I still don't understand why people continue to use this company

I wish more folks knew that Amazon does NOT employ drivers directly. They contract out to 3rd party Delivery Service Providers (DSPs) and the DSPs are the ones who should be looking out for their drivers. The drivers are NOT paid by Amazon. If people should be mad at anyone it's the DSPs that don't care about their drivers and force them to do things like finish a route after a dog bite. When I was feeling overheated on one of my larger routes my DSP immediately sent someone to take the rest of my route so I could go home and rest. Stuff like this isn't on Amazon, it's on the DSP. I wish more people knew this. Now... The warehouses on the other hand... That's all Amazon and I've heard horror stories about them which is why I would never work at an Amazon warehouse, but I have no problem being a driver especially if I'm working at at DSP that actually takes care of their drivers.

Had a route courier position maybe 25 years ago (not UPS, FED EX, or Amazon). It was winter and I slipped all the way down wooden porch steps. When I landed at the bottom, I screamed from pain. Had to crawl all the way back to van. When I called base on two way radio, they asked if I could finish my route. I said no, despite them begging me to continue it. After 2-3 weeks of incredible back pain, I was told I could return, but with a lifting restriction of x weight. I knew something was more than x weight, but was told that if I pushed it onto cart somehow instead of lifting it, that didn't count because I wasn't lifting it. Plot twist: I messed up my back again.

I can relate. Was a mailman for several years. BUT that's what you get for working non union delivery, which is the shenanigans Amazon pulled here by creating their own drivers. Shitty managers that try to take advantage of you is the downside. See you would contact you union steward and tell them to contact your manager to send someone out to pick up the truck from the ER while you were being treated - if your manager said some nonsense.

All corporations care about is the bottom dollar. We're replaceable blood-filled cogs.

im glad the dog didn't get put down. not the pups fault. some dogs are just really territorial

I'm not sure about the rabies situation in the US. I would be very scared about that. Here it's not a given that animals have rabies shots. The questions seem to indicate the person this poor guy spoke to couldn't give two shifts, maybe they would've let him go directly to the ER if he'd been in a white van...

He didn't work directly for Amazon, he even says he "Switched DSP's after that." Those are privately owned, 3rd party delivery companies that deliver for Amazon. It wasn't an Amazon manager that asked him to finish his route, it was the manager for the 3rd party DSP. This is misleading & I doubt it's on accident. My husband started at entry level 1 and is now a level 5 supervisor for Amzl aka Amazon logistics & they would never do something like that. Safety is HUGE, big enough to where if you violate safety measures, you're fired. Amazon has been nothing but a blessing to us. They have changed our entire standard of living by pulling us out of poverty by way of the opportunities they've extended to him. All the employees at his station call Bezos "Uncle Jeff" Does that sound like the nickname of an evil boss or one that takes care of hisemployees? Obviously I've heard and understand other stations and cities have different experiences, but here everything is pretty good.