Stop Sweat Shop Work Conditions at Amazon

Amazon is forcing it's employees at the CAE1, Columbia, S.C. location to limit their 'Time Off Task" to 3 minutes. The 5 minute Time Off Task Rule was already the lowest at any Amazon facility and a challenge to adhere to, and the new 3 minute "Time Off Task Rule" will be next to impossible to follow. No one abuses this rule because you only have a total of 30 minutes of 'Time Off Task per day. The nearest restroom to me is 50 yards away (half the distance of a football field) and for some associates the nearest restroom may be as far as 100 yards away. Now let's say for a minute that you had to go to the restroom for something other than a normal restroom run. (Which is hard enough to do under 3 minutes when you have to cover 50 yards of distance going and coming.) But let's just say you weren't feeling well that day because you had a stomach disorder or you felt light headed and needed time to adjust your self. These are perfectly acceptable personal reasons why an Amazon associate would be away from their station for more than 3 minutes, yet we're being disciplined for them. The other is we need supplies and we may need to leave our station sometimes to get boxes or labels or change to new labels when you run out. The labels we use come on 1000 label rolls and changing them alone takes longer than 3 minutes. Suppose while you were getting those supplies another associate asked you to explain a procedure to them that they knew little about because there was no manager on the floor and this took more than 3 minutes. Again, you would be in violation of the new 3 minute "Time Off Task Rule".

There is something going on here that is even more troubling. Did I mention that our facility is the number two highest producing facility in the entire Amazon network. Yes, we are the number 2 producing facility in the entire Amazon network and that number is up from being the number 11 most producing facility. You would think with numbers like those we would have gotten a bonus or a raise for all of our hard work. Instead, we were punished for it.
The employees who work for Amazon are honest hard working people and need their jobs to pay their bills and support their families. They are responsible for the billions of dollars that Amazon makes on a yearly basis and their jobs should not be threatened because they leave their work stations for 3 minutes. Will you please help by standing with the employees of Amazon and sign my petition demanding that Amazon raises it's "Time Off Task Rule to 7minutes or more which would be more reasonable.