But Amazon’s lease agreements require restaurants to stay open late into the night. Some restaurants have tried to close early because they found they couldn’t generate enough business at night to justify the cost of staying open. Marination co-owner Roz Edison asked Amazon to allow the restaurant to close on Sundays because business drops 50-60% on weekends. Amazon denied the request.Some former restaurant employees told The Seattle Times that Amazon security guards micromanage shops and track when they close. One restaurant owner likened Amazon to “Big Brother,” a claim Amazon has pushed back on.
Amazon security guards?
Did they do a Robocop with their own privatized police force?
Nope! I’ve actually worked Amazon Security before. They contract out to companies like G4S and Securitas.
It’s a brutal post. You’re watched like a hawk and the slightest breach of policy or protocol gets you fired nearly instantly. I recall one guard getting dropped after 6 years of employment with no complaints or write ups because they gave an employee a hug on their birthday (at the employees request; they knew each other outside of work).
It surprises me not in the slightest that if Amazon had contractual obligations such as this they would make it standard procedure to track and report. Normally I’d say “okay, so just don’t work for a company that does shit you don’t like” but since you’re a contractor it isn’t that simple- Amazon isn’t your employer and you dont always get the most say over which site you’re assigned to.
Amazon invented a neighborhood to serve its Seattle headquarters, but the restaurants it lured there are failing
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