The „peeing in bottles thing“ is, in fact true, Amazon said Friday, as it issued a public apology for a tweet from its Amazon News …
The „peeing in bottles thing“ is, in fact true, Amazon said Friday, as it issued a public apology for a tweet from its Amazon News account that suggested stories about its drivers urinating in bottles while working are bogus. „You don’t really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you? If that were true, nobody would work for us,“ the company had said in that original, March 24 tweet, which was a response to a tweet from congressional Rep. Mark Pocan. Pocan’s tweet had said, „Paying workers $15/hr doesn’t make you a ‚progressive workplace‘ when you union-bust & make workers urinate in water bottles.“ Amazon recanted its original tweet late Friday, saying in a blog post that the tweet was „incorrect“ and that it owed an apology to Pocan. „We know that drivers can and do have trouble finding restrooms because of traffic or sometimes rural routes,“ the company said in the post, „and this has been especially the case during Covid when many public restrooms have been closed.“ The apology could signal that the company is having second thoughts about a spate of unusually aggressive tweets it fired off last month. Amazon made headlines in March with snarky tweets directed at Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. After Vermont’s Sanders said he’d travel to Alabama in the final days of a union vote at an Amazon warehouse there, the company’s chief of consumer operations fired back on Twitter.
