Sarah O'Connor

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261 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 3 Jul

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So, you know, you pick it out and then another light illuminates which box that you need to put it into and you push a big button.

And then that robot takes that shelf away and the next robot is already queuing up for you with the next shelf and you do the same thing.

Two minutes.

10 hours a day, 40 hours a week with two 30-minute breaks.

And so this is not what I had imagined when I sort of cheered on the robots and thought this would be great.

You know, in some ways, I think that job is better.

It is less physically demanding than walking around for 10 hours a day.

Amazon says that it's safer.

So they have, you know, fewer injuries and accidents.

And I think that's probably true.

But if anything, I think it's also become more boring and more monotonous.

And also, it's still not that easy on the human body to stand up for 10 hours a day.

And because they're now much more productive, right?

Because you're not walking around from one place to the next.

And so the products are coming at you.

So you're bending, you're lifting, you're twisting over and over and over again.

So I think it's still quite a physically demanding job and arguably like a bit more monotonous and a bit lonelier.

Well, I interviewed one worker who had volunteered to transfer from a manual old-fashioned warehouse to a new one.

And he wanted to go back.

He said, actually, I don't like working with the robots.

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