They for sure thought of this, that's why the lower half of the door is see through.
And it's sad how OBVIOUS it is that that's why it's like that.
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Amazon unveils their Mindful Practice Room, aka the Cry Box
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And it's sad how OBVIOUS it is that that's why it's like that.
Money will certainly be an issue for them when the family of the first person that commits suicide inside one of these boxes decides to sue their ass
They better be, because one lawsuit can very quickly snowball into a class action, and that will be painted all over the media
You'll have to excuse me if I don't hold my breath.
Apple factories have suicide nets and no one gives a fuck.
Big companies like Amazon are immune to consequences.
I can't stop laughing at the audacity of this thing. As someone with a mom who suffered from mental illness (as well as my SO and lesser myself) both exacerbated by the workplace I can guarangoddamntee you this thing is gonna end up just being a vessel for people to stigmatize those who go in it, and honestly I wouldn't put it past Amazon to record people in it lol. Imagine having a serious complaint regarding work place harassment and being told to hit the box.
One, it isn't private. It's in the middle of the work floor, and it looks like a carnival photo booth.
Two, if your workplace conditions are so terrible that you specifically need an area such as this, then said conditions should be fixed as opposed to slapping a dystopian bandage on it.
Reminds me of those suicide booths from Futurama.
Edit: Beaten many times over
I don't want to defend Amazon but everyone at any job might need a moment. I work in animal care and people can feel serious grief at work if something happens. I had to run to a bathroom to cry a few weeks ago when an animal suddenly died. Everyone cries in bathrooms or closets here when something happens.
it's definitely poorly implemented no matter which way you slice it though
As someone with both major depression and major anxiety, I completely understand needing to escape for a bit (or the rest of the day/week sometimes), but this implementation in particular is basically what a bunch of rich suits figured would give them points for aiding "mental health", when none of them have probably even thought about the term before. Get that shit off the work floor and far, far away from anyone else. And don't make them look like compressed booths of any kind - people should have full rooms. I think a good example is stage/studio dressing rooms, the ones with full bathrooms and showers and such. Couches, chairs, whatever is actually comfortable. And you obviously should be able to lock the thing. That at least feels like a good starting point as opposed to... whatever this is.
The location and size of it could be better/bigger, but I'm not against this idea. I used to essentially have to take breaks and go to the bathroom to just sit and calm down during some low points. The end result is folks just thought I had immense bowel issues. Was a better trade off than telling them I was having a mini breakdown.
I would love if my place of work had this. There's a really "nice" large break room, but absolutely no where to go for any kind of privacy during breaks.
Anything and EVERYTHING before doing liveable wages and reasonable work loads.
fuck capitalism...
fuck capitalism...
It's not, really. Basically every office job I've ever worked has had a privacy/"refuge" room.
These were actual human-sized rooms, discretely located, where people could slip away to calm down or pray or whatever.
Infinitely more humane than the reverse-panopticon shame-cubicle.
I guarantee you employee have a mediation clause in their contracts that forbids lawsuits.
"And this is the piece of floor I inhabit, and that's the camera that monitors my efficiency, and this is the communal box we all shriek in."
People hating on this but if you catch yourself about to a panic attack, having a retreat space with minimal external stimuli where you can laser-in on yourself is a big deal.
Haha exactly. Everybody is quick to shit on amazon then order stuff from them.
I for one is looking forward to the follow-up story on how the warehouse workers are peeing in it.
Lol. My brain went directly to this as well. Why isn't Amazon's first reaction, "Why the fuck should someone who enjoys working here need this?"
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Thw thing is so over designed that it had to take a large team. Like wtf.