I no longer gave him a truck about his work.
A Michigan Amazon delivery driver resigned mid-shift this week, leaving behind a truckload of packages.
“I stopped the amazon f-k I was driving s-t I left the truck at 12 miles and Southfield everyone can have that bitch and it’s full of gas with the keys on IGNITION”, Derick Lancaster, 22, wrote in an awesome tweet Monday he had accumulated more than 26,500 retweets by Thursday afternoon.
Lancaster said he was frustrated with the hard work and long hours for barely a minimum wage, but regrets that he has handled his unconventional resignation, a local ABC affiliate. WXYZ-TV reported.
“It was immature and irresponsible on my part. At the same time, it’s enough, “Lancaster told the station after leaving his delivery van in a Detroit suburb.
Amazon drivers across the country have long complained about poor working conditions, an investigation by ProPublica revealed last year.
The e-commerce giant also received complaints from factory workers across the country this year for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Lancaster said it would deliver more than 100 packages over the course of a 12-hour shift for about $ 15.50 an hour. He was constantly under pressure to deliver packages faster, he said.
“It was days that I had to deliver 158, 212, and it kept going up and up,” he said.
Missing her sister’s birthday party was the last straw in the glass that made Lancaster quit.
“She was really mad at me,” he told the station. “There is no set schedule.”
Since his viral resignation, Lancaster has inspired admiration and contempt online, seen as a working-class hero to some and extremely irresponsible to others who criticized him for inviting people to take ownership of others.
“I can’t imagine how selfish someone must be to leave a van full of other people’s property,” said one person on Twitter. wrote. “This is not OK”.
But another additional”That’s kind of fun, though. It’s a way to hit Jeff Bezos.”
However, Lancaster kept his spirits up, joked on Twitter about the press he received, and defended himself against the backlash he received.
“Why are white people so mad at me?” Lancaster tweeted when he invoked the response to the police murder of George Floyd and Charleston, shooting in the South Carolina church in Minneapolis in 2015.
“[Y]”Not everything was angry when that officer was stepping on the brother’s neck, I don’t think they were angry when that whiten- shot the church killing the blacks, but is he angry that-” work? ”
Amazon said it was “taking appropriate action,” but offered no explanation.
“This does not reflect the high standards we have for delivery partners,” Amazon said in a statement.
“We are taking this matter seriously, and we have investigated the matter and are taking appropriate action.”
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