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WTF?!<\/strong> It seems that the suffering Amazon delivery drivers must endure doesn\u2019t all come from the job itself. A new report highlights how customers are asking some of them to dance in front of surveillance cameras, and the footage is then posted on TikTok. <\/p>\n

Motherboard reports<\/a> that the TikTok users are leaving notes on their door or using the Amazon app to ask drivers to perform dances for their cameras. Clips are then posted on the social media site. It doesn\u2019t appear that any of the drivers gave their consent for the videos to be posted online.<\/p>\n

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@its.just.leah<\/a> Maybe he was singing this song in his head\u2026it matches pretty good. Tag him if you know him #ringcam<\/a> #amazondriver<\/a> \u266c original sound – \u2764?CiiNnY WaLkEr?\u2764<\/a><\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n

One driver in Wisconsin told the publication that a customer used the Amazon app to request that they do the chicken dance. The employee ignored the request on that occasion.<\/p>\n

While some of the videos seem to show the drivers enjoying their performances, and plenty will likely refuse the requests, it\u2019s concerning to wonder how many are dancing only to meet the customers’ demands and avoid potential consequences, such as negative feedback. There’s also the question of TikTokers increasing their popularity at someone else’s expense.<\/p>\n

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@oliviamoyes<\/a> I love Amazon Drivers! #fyp<\/a> #trending<\/a> #viral<\/a> #foryoupage<\/a> \u266c SexyBack (feat. Timbaland) – Justin Timberlake<\/a><\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cTechnically if the delivery associate doesn\u2019t follow the instructions they can get dinged on their metrics for not doing so,\u201d a delivery company owner from the Midwest told Motherboard.<\/p>\n

A different driver was clear about how they felt: \u201cI\u2019ve only seen these requests in the app. If they said it in person, I would probably smack the shit out of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most of us wouldn\u2019t want to be made to dance, have it filmed, and put on TikTok as part of our job. But the sad truth is that Amazon drivers have more things to worry about. If it\u2019s not the huge pressure from making deliveries within a schedule so tight that they don\u2019t have time for bathroom breaks, hence the (alleged) practice of urinating<\/a> in bottles, it’s AI surveillance cameras<\/a> in their vans and unrepaired damage to vehicles. According to one upstate New York driver, \u201cThere\u2019s way more shit that\u2019s a problem than that stuff. My sideview mirror has been broken for the past six months. On the highway, I don\u2019t have a passenger mirror.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n