Amazon warehouses are 'cult-like' sweatshops run by robots: ex-employee

Maureen Donnelly took a job with Amazon when the retail goliath opened a fulfillment center on Staten Island in September 2018. The 46-year-old Staten Islander quit after just one month. Last week, more than 100 workers and their supporters gathered outside the same 855,000-square-foot packing plant to protest working conditions and spotlight newly released data showing the rate of worker injury there was three times higher than the national average for similar warehouse work. Here Donnelly tells Post reporter Dean Balsamini what it was like to work for Jeff Bezos' Amazon, which the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health included on its 2019 "Dirty Dozen" list of the nation's most dangerous employers. Amazon did not immediately return comment. I've been a waitress, a newsroom clerk, an EMT and spent summers on a dairy farm in Ireland.