Working at Amazon Fulfillment Center - SOUTH PARK
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- To make ends meet, Butters' Dad takes a job at the Amazon Fulfillment Center.
"Unfulfilled" S22
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family guy is better
@@FoehnWinds it's really not
@@FoehnWinds Opinion invalidated
@@FoehnWinds Family guy hasnt been funny since season 9
@@FoehnWinds Na southpark is more original vs Family Guy who copy The Simpsons alot.
With every smiling box you receive, a soul has been depleted of its joy.
Yeah yeah… will my 12 inch bad dragon be here by 5 pm tomorrow or not? Because I’m going out of town.
@@jayquick6520 :(
Wtf I love Amazon now.
It's a warehouse job. Meant to only be done for a few months to a year until you get a better job. Then the next high school or college kid takes your place and so on and so forth.
@@dangerous8333 This is the perception just like it is with McDonald's jobs but this is not reality.
I like how Steven flips out and yells at Butters, then apologizes to his wife for being slightly annoyed.
Yeah. It be like that sometimes.
Those bitches are evil have to pretend
@@williammercer8303 imagine telling on yourself like this.
I like how he worked hard to get his forklift license
What's even better Butters smiles the whole time... Even after his dad says "fuck you" 🤣
Been there 2.5 years, this is too accurate it’s a never ending grind. Funny how you’ll feel so unfulfilled working at a fulfillment center
Unfulfillment center
Find a new job instead of working for the beast. Learn to live in the woods if you must
Why don't you quit?
It didn't promise you fulfillment, it promised you a salaried position. I too was upset to learn butterflies did not produce butter at a central hive. To the best of my knowledge it's from churned milk and there's simply no way butterflies are churning milk. But we can't know for sure until we try.
Worked in vehicle manufacturing plant for 5 years brother, 3 years on night shift until I lost my mind...
I worked at a fulfillment center two different times. I never lasted more than a month. Not because I can't take hard work (I'm a power lineman) but because it was literally soul crushing. Nothing but yellow and gray. They treat you like a slave. Unobtainable quotas, absolute minimum legal break time, only one bathroom you're allowed to use, and it's almost always on the other side of the center and you can only go on your break. Fifteen minute break and 7 minutes to get to the bathroom, one minute to use it, and 7 to walk back. You literally use your whole break to piss.
I've only worked in one, but the two weeks I was there was enough to tell myself to find something better. Youre absolutely right about unobtainable quotas and minimum break time too, I'd barely make the 16/hr mark, and the distance of the bathrooms from where I worked just didnt work for 10 minute breaks, and I'm pretty far from a 'slacker' so that should tell you something.
How is it being a power lineman?
@@hegaliandialectics4289 it's hard work, but if you like being outside it's worth it. The pay is really good too. I work with guys that got into line work just like 5 years ago and they make 48 dollars an hour now.
@@ElessarEstel are you union? Also are power lineman employed by power companies or local government. I tried looking it up but couldn’t find a straight answer.
@@hegaliandialectics4289 the company I work for isn't union but a lot of companies are. And it's usually private power companies. I'm sure there are government linemen though
I expected a joke, but no, this is where SP gets serious.
@@mycoffinisblack nope, depressing.
The joke is that this song is basically a cover from when you'd be paid in company scrip and the closed economy screwed workers coming and going. Don't like the price? Neither does anyone with dollars to trade for your scrip, so you'll get gouged if you shop outside of your system if that's even plausible in a company town.
Now people being screwed by their employer are still enjoying shopping there even though there are other options. It's showing that either people are too dumb to avoid the problem without the closed system or that megacorps can loosen the chains and still own you just as surely.
The whole thing is a joke........
I’m surprised they didn’t depict the drivers pooping and peeing in bags. That’s prime joke material right there.
Soon all of these manual jobs will be replaced by robots anyway. Makes you wonder what people will be doing for work in 20 years time.
The fact that he says “Fuck You” to his son and Butters is still smiling. 😂😂😂😂
Let’s be honest, that’s not the worst thing Butters dad has done to him 😂
I'm honestly surprised by why Butters wasn't grounded.
That's who he is
Butters is clueless
butters is either very jaded or he's somehow still pure after all the shit he's been through
Fun fact this episode wasn’t the first time “Sixteen tons,” was referenced. In the Paris Hilton episode butters was actually singing his own version of the song while he was trying to dig up coal to sadly try and prevent himself from being sold off by his parents
Tennessee Ernie Ford
I member
“stupid spoiled whore video playset” my favorite episode
You watch this show too much.
Ever since that episode, "Sixteen Tons" is my little song whenever I have to shovel the snow. I'm 45 but it's inspirational. :)
Matt and Trey definitely picked the perfect song to describe working at a fulfillment center
The song was part of the Fallout 76 Soundtrack that was released a few months before this episode. I wonder if a Music Supervisor for the show was a fan of the game.
@@jasonkyleadams7577bro, the song is way, WAY older than that.
@@sczzlbttNot what they were saying.
It’s a song from either the 40s or 50s to describe working at coal mines with company stores
@@strangebrew1231 I know that. It was written by Tennessee Ernie Ford. Talked like a hick but had an amazing singing voice
The Amazon boxes aren't smiling, they're laughing at you.
yo chill chill
I think they are smirking.
Best comment award
I always thought that smirk looked like a curved cock.
@@memyself898 OMG, I did, too, and I'm not the sort to do that at all. Still, ........
As a former employee of Amazon....this is BEYOND accurate!
They’re good at that. I remember having that thought about the Mormon episode
Not entirely, he was listening to music on his phone. Cant bring your phone pr anything else in with you
Former, former, past, no longer an employee.............good. Enjoy the rest of your life.
As a current employee of one of Amazon's competitors, there is no difference. We're all living out of the company store.
I worked one holiday season there. After Xmas they started laying people off, but not me. I was afraid they’d offer me permanent so I had to quit. Worse job ever, and I was in the actual Amazon with Pablo Escobar trying to kill me.
I never went to college, I worked at amazon after school. Thank god I did, coz there was never a better motivator to getting my life together.
Ehh i have a degree and it isnt any better
The best part about working at amazon for 1.5 years is that I know I will never have a worse job for the rest of my life. Since then when I am working and people complain about the company, I can smile and say “how can you be unhappy here? This is heaven compared to amazon.”
I did go to college. I worked in a call center doing tech support. There was never a better motivator for suicide.
Same...I worked at a distribution warehouse for a large retail company for 3 months between high school.and college and that was the reason I finished college. People.in their 40-50s who hate every day of their life, it was truly depressing.
With that said I respect the hell our of them for being able to do that for that long for whatever reasons they choose.
@@nunyabizness9400 I'm a manager at an Amazon warehouse. I think I'm a reasonable boss as long as the work gets done on time and people are safe. I don't nitpick much. But I tell my friends and family that I work at Amazon in my 30s as a manager so i dont have to work at Amazon in my 50s or 60s as an Associate. I don't know how our older workers do it.
As a former Amazon employee, this scene is INSANELY accurate, down to the warehouse interior and exterior, the breaks, the soulless expressions on everyone’s faces. My only conclusion is that they must’ve gotten the input of many Amazon or former Amazon workers when writing this episode.
They weren't working hard or fast enough in my experience
@@curtisevans8413
Dont waste your time slaving away for a company that can easily replace a person before they walk out the front door.
@@NinjaZXRR I don't. I quit Amazon a long time ago.
soulless people. very well said. obeying robots, both people and robots.
Wal-Mart from the 90s has evolved into Amazon into the 2020s.
One of the most relevant and poignant bits they have ever done.
Because……a day of work?!?
The music really drives it home..
@@SonnyGTA 3:00
That’s literally every episode
@@exoduskamper1705 yep
I hate how true this one is. I get PTSD thinking back to the hell hole that was the Amazon FC I worked at. Just a quick overview of the treatment I experienced:
Ten hour shifts of picking in a warehouse that is 80-90 degrees in the "winter" and 100+ in the summer. There were a limited number of box fans that were quickly snatched up by the early birds of the shift. The rest were left to swelter in the heat. Same goes for the stools that gave a little comfort. This was ten hours of reaching up to the top of a bin to bending over to picking from the bottom.
We had breaks that began with the last item scanned. You would then log out of your console and then walk to the breakroom (about 3-5 minutes because the facility was so big). You needed to be back at your station, logged in, and scanning the next item by the time 15 minutes had passed from your last scan. Do the math and you will see that Amazon gives their workers about 5 minutes or so to get off their feet and rest. Of course, if you were buddies with the managers, you could take extended breaks.
You did get an hour unpaid lunch, so there was that. But imagine not being able to listen to music and working in a hot and humid environment with no air circulation for ten hours. I would go home and just pass out from exhaustion. I didn't eat or shower until it was time to wake up for the next shift. This was my life while I was working at Amazon.
Honestly, thinking back to how absolutely horrible this company treats their workers, I just can't believe it's legal.
Is legalized slavery i guess
Really bro? Really? You're a union employee working for one of the most high tech and PR sensitive firms in the world and they have you working in conditions like a cigar roller in castro's cuba? You people cry when your favorite Netflix show gets cancelled, you need a 2 liter of dr. pib to keep from passing out while sitting in the shade, and you're working in 90 degree heat with tropical humidity? Do you really expect me to buy this shit?
for a recent pre-internet analogue, refer to dock work. Docks can be on the ocean or inland. Truckers usually do not drive more than four hours out. My dad was a long-haul trucker, but most aren't. He couldn't read or write, but he knew the usa like the back of his calloused hands. My ex husband worked at an inland dock. Trucks would drop off loads and other trucks would pick them up. It was his job to load the trucks. There were many varied and dangerous jobs on the docks. Those jobs are not for the skilled, nor the faint of heart. Back then, if you could read, you would not be loading trucks. I did not see my father's nor my husband's inability to read as a problem, but it did limit their job choices. Amazon centers are docks.
@@kevinlearner40Say you've never had a job without saying you've never had a job.
@@kevinlearner40 I'm guessing you've been unemployed for a long time
Butters pays for rush drone delivery on a $3 part while his dad is working himself to death
What does the cost of the part have to do with anything? If you need something in a specific time frame what difference does its value make.
@@dangerous8333 He didn't need it. He just doesn't understand the true cost of a dollar for his dad.
Butters didn't pay for it. His Dad did.
That was ironic seeing the drone...
@@kasession oh I thought his dad stole it... the lady looked in the box...it was empty. LOL
It's interesting that as much as people say how powerful Amazon is getting and how the employees share how miserable they are, but one thing they all have in common is that it doesn't stop them from using Amazon's services
Amazon is so damn big. It's not the sales that make them that much profit. It's AWS. But try to avoid AWS. It's like not using the internet. That's what makes Amazon sadly unstoppable
What is AWS?
@@spencerbrown6214 Amazon web services. Amazon have server farms that provide downloadable music and movies and run their sales software and in addition they host other companys or peoples websites and data storage and cloud computing - it's become a big part of their business.
@@stephenhumble7627 Holy Cow!!!!!, I had no idea how far reaching Amazon is…what a bummer they have so much control 👎🌎
Recently, I had to buy a couple of bread tins, for baking bread. I had to buy several before I found the right size and design, because the sizes given were innaccurate. I tried locally to find a store that stocked loaf tins. I found one but it only stocked a couple of 2lb tins. I actually need to bake bread to feed a family, its not "artisan" sh*t. So 4 - 5 lb.
Do you think I could find anywhere other than Amazon?
NOPE
I never really realized how good this song is. You don’t hear it for 30 years, the you’re like damn that song is way better than I ever remembered.
Song is really catchy
You haven't been playing much Fallout lately, have you? ;)
who sings that catchy song
"Wow, this song really is timeless, its pretty good.
Oh fuck. This song is timeless..."
@@timtoner6339 Tennessee Ernie Ford…yep I’m old as…$&@k
They cut out the best verse.
"If you see me comin' better step aside.
A lot of men didn't and a lot of men died."
That's the Kroger warehouse, forklift drivers will literally run you over if you're in the way.
"With one fist of iron, the other out of steel,
If the right one don't get ya, then the left one will."
@@roninikari you load 16 tons what da you get another day older and deeper in debt
Sounds like modern gangsta rap lyrics 🤷🏾♂️
@@mentlinc Nah, modern rap songs would have the N word thrown in about 50 times. Then they'll turn around and cry that the word is so "offensive" to them.
0:24 I like how Butters is still smiling even though the Dad is yelling at him 🤣
Cartman: what a little asshole
He's so used to the abuse it doesn't phase him
I like that, too. I don't watch this show, but I had a feeling that the dad would freak out. LOL
Butter's knows that deep down his father loves him.
as someone who worked there for about a year
this is HORRIFICALLY accurate
Yeah man I just worked there 3 days and quit because of this episode
@@AbuHajarAlBugatti cap
It’s a warehouse job. What do you guys expect?
My brother worked there 4 days. He said it was worse than the 3 years he did in prison. He called it the clean version of hell
This is why I don’t use Amazon. If you buy from them all you’re doing is approving of their business structure. If you stop buying from them the company will die out.
My father used to sing 16 tons. He died an alcoholic. Bitter and mean. All offers of help were rejected. He really had a good voice. He loved that song.
I'm sorry.
@@jacobwiles547 thank you friend, I really mean that.
@@SiberiaDreams You’re welcome!
I worked there a year and a half ago for one day and 4 hours. It was one of the worst experiences of my life. This sketch is one of the most accurate and relatable South Park has done.
I ended up quitting because my “ambassador” screamed at me for taking a break too early. After that I ran out of the building crying. I’m in college now and have a great full-time job. But man, I still get chills thinking about my time there.
So many people deserve better than that
Maybe you're just a pussy?
Lol
Thank God I'm just the delivery driver.
I just graduated college with a math degree.
I applied to 300+ jobs for 5 months and couldn’t get any job offers.
Now I’m working at the Amazon warehouse… it was the only place that hired me 😭
I would kill to work at THAT fulfillment center. Where I worked the closest thing we had to automation was the conveyor system and manual pallet jacks. 4 people doing 'unload' per shift with the expectation of 60,000 items being distributed by the entire facility in 8 hours was the daily expectation. If you were standing still you were fired.
How about finally hitting the quota number that hangs over every station, get an unexpected shout out from the team leader along with a smile and a thumbs up --- then on your next day at work you see they've silently raised the quota to some new out of reach number.
@@charlieross-BRM TRUTH!
sounds like Tras-O-Flex company in germany , i did excactly that waht youve just discribed
Pick up your slack. 60000 items is nothing
Should have had a government job. Drink coffee and do crossword puzzles for 70k a year and get a years paid vacation for covid.
I worked at amazon for years and then a few other places. All warehouses are the same, doesn't matter what company, its an endless/ soul crushing grind.
but you made bank right?
Its a living
@@MrDisgruntledGamer1 Nobody makes bank working at or near the minimum wage unless they invest a big portion of the money they earn in crypto or meme stocks.
@@BrigadoomNorth its not minimum wage and you need no skill at all so your comments is pretty low iq imo. And to invest in crypto?? good luck with predicting the next big crypto bubble.
@Säker tagning your making it sound like a bachelors degree is an easy cheap alternative....
I work at Amazon and when I saw this episode I so desperately wanted Butter's Dad to stow or box something at work and go home and buy it. I've done that so much, either put the items in pods, the ones the robots carry around, or box something and think 'hey, this is cool, I'm going to buy one.'
I remember watching this episode for the first time at Amazon, I was stunned at how accurate they nailed the feeling of working at a fulfillment center and pissed that I was practically watching the place I hated working at.
Worked there for a month in 2020 peak season. They literally record you during training and make you rewatch the video of you working with a supervisor. Not to mention the scanners track your every move. If you accidentally scan the wrong item a certain amount of times a day, someone will find you and complain you aren't working efficiently enough. They find you based on your last scanned package. I even felt like Alexa was listening
I lasted 4 months. Walked out with my pride and swore I'd shop local the rest of my life. You have no idea how devistatingly accurate this was at the time.
Edit 2.5k likes, wasn't expecting that.
At the time.
Oh so has it changed in a way or just the same?
But we love to order from Amazon 🥺
I was there 3 weeks before I found something a bit more manageable. I hated that place; one of the worst jobs I've ever had.
doubt you'll stay local really doubt it
The local business are still buying from Amazon you are buying from Amazon indirectly
The horrifying moment when SP stops being satire 📦
reality is now satire so SP has to switch back to be ironic
I had no Idea there is a box Emoji
I showed this to my Godfather who works at Amazon and he was laughing his ass off
How’s Don Corleone these day ?
Did you pay him the proper respects?
Mine works in waste management
My Godfather worked as a Streetsweeper for the Family
Yes but he was crying later because it's true.
My hats off to Amazon workers. I did some projects this year and frequently ordered parts and supplies from Amazon because they just didn't exist in the brick and mortar stores anywhere near my house. And they arrived sometimes the next day. If it's any consolation, I worked a factory job that frequently felt soul crushing for 35 years. I stayed because it paid the bills with enough money left over to get some enjoyment out of life. I have friends who did my "dream job" including one who ran his own independent business. When we got together he would frequently comment how lucky I was because I could "punch out of my job for the day and go home and forget about it" until the next time. I guess the moral of the story is it's rough when we don't get our dream job but it can be rough when we do.
Sad but, true. Interesting how incredibly accurate the conveyer belt system is down to the wiring and devices.
Southpark in general is extremely accurate on just about everything.. makes me beable to laugh about it though and that's why it's my favorite show of all time. 🍻
All we have to do is stop buying from Amazon. It's in our power to stop them... Sooooo?
If any of the competition had a site or app as simple and easy to use maybe but until other companies figure that out no chance people stop using Amazon
@@chrislawrence6609 yeah they've won that war tenfold, and 2 day free shipping with Prime as cheap as it is?.. nobody's gonna compete with that name.
Discovered this scene the week after I lost my job (pre-pandemic) and it honestly made a huge impact on me. Never thought South Park of all things would speak to the desolation I felt in that moment like this did.
That's sp for ya.
The song is so accurate.
Should be the anthem of every hard working person.
The song was written about the old coal mining companies. Miners and their families would live in houses owned by and pay rent to the mining companies and shop at the company owned stores for everything from clothes to food. Merle Travis got the line about the company store from his father who was a coal miner. He would often say, "I can't afford to die, I owe my soul to the company store.".
Some people do things they like, and don't mind working hard. th-cam.com/video/G_9UgrFGafM/w-d-xo.html
its the anthem of exploited workers
Thank Tennessee Ernie Ford for making this song
How do the South Park guys manage to stay so in the loop about everything? Amazing
Because they're not stupid.
@@theopinionisthighqualityopinio It's not a bad thing to have a lot of money. It's about how you get it and what you do with it that matters.
When you're famous you've got connections in a lot of places. People like you and they include you in stuff.
@@theopinionisthighqualityopinio No problem. Sorry about your husband. $197 million?! Lets take our money and put it in a pile together and split it. LOL. Hope that made you chuckle! As for your Dad: Honest, moral and hardworking? Do those qualities exist anymore? My Mom raised us 3 alone on a school secretaries pay since I was 2 I'm 57 now. So I do know those qualities. Good Luck thanks for sharing.
@@theopinionisthighqualityopinio They satirize literally everything, including what they themselves do and believe in. They're the big guy and the little guy.
They even had the proper size boxes, I saw UO and PA, used a LOT of them today
Is it really a bad place? Or mostly boring?
Did you load 16 tons? If so what did you get?
@@CubbyWalters another day older and deeper in debt
How're you holding up there?
Your fired.. turn in your shit monday.
Kenny's dad finally has a job
Hooray for him!👏👏
and he still looks dirty
Y'all must've 4got bout that meth lab in the shed
WTF did the guy in the middle say🤣
There is nothing as soul crushing as working these monotonous wharehouse/factory jobs.
People underestimate how heavy detail and customer service is mentally 💔
Heavy machinery detail is indeed tough. I bet retail is too
@@RG-tm7uq least you don’t have to deal with cunts all day. I’d rather work a tough labour job busting my ass all day then working for annoying entitled people.
Would you rather search through shit. And piss looking for recyclables? Ffs prob lazy cumt 😂
This ISN'T ABOUT that. It's about the dead end life if a bottom rung warehouse picker.
Butter’s happiness when he saw his dad got him a horn almost made me tear up
I know it’s terrible and all, but I work construction and I wear a set of tool bags that weighs 40 pounds all day long. I sit down for one ten minute break and one half hour lunch every day. I work down in the mud, the heat, the freezing cold. I walk over uneven ground carrying heavy loads and constantly am using tools that could ruin multiple parts of your body if you lose focus. I work at heights we’re if you fall you die, if you tie off your harness wrong, you die. I have a bad shoulder, a bad knee, a bad back and am in pain most of the time. I’m 41 and can’t play ball with my kids because it hurts to run. It was a job I started when I was 14 and didn’t know better and before I knew what was happening I was married with kids and didn’t see a way out. I’m not complaining, just giving perspective.
#CapitalismFails #SocialismWorks
Don't worry there is a way out, its called death 😅
I'm doin that too...
Frankly I'd rather do it than work in a office or warehouse. I get to be outdoors, at the least, in different work sites. I see the finished product of my work.
Much more fulfilling than working at a fulfillment center.
So it's a tradeoff. Fulfillment vs less physical labor. And in my opinion, I see office people complain about the same physical issues; they still get back problems too, from sitting. Aging is the biggest culprit - even for a construction guy, going to the gym is important, just to work out those muscles you don't get to use very often. That's how you age better, by constantly getting new stimuli, as long as you can.
I hear you brother and I left construction trade to work at Amazon and tell the whining ones this work ain’t nothing…work construction!!!
Linda is an engineer, I wonder why money is still so tight when both parents work and Butters is their only kid in a isolated mountain town…
Most people nowadays don't save & just spend
This collision of artistry and brutal truth is sublime.
I don't know why I love this scene so much.
because you work for amazon........
@@10percent4DaBigGuy Nope
This is the type of comedy I love, comedy that takes itself and the viewer seriously and has times when shit really hits home, OG SpongeBob, OG Simpsons, even Laurel and Hardy had many scenes and lines of it throughout. Comedy like this is timeless and will never be hindered by trends and fads.
It's the song for me
Well structured scene
I worked at Amazon for about 2 months then quit because I started having thoughts about respawning else where. I'm happy with the work I do now, I hope those who worked at Amazon and still do find peace with themselves. That's how you get thru that job
Is respawning elsewhere some kind of euphemism for suicide?! If so, damn...both impressive and brutal
@@Eradicus that and TH-cam's policy
ive run three stints at the old amazon. im there because i have to be money-wise.
I literally watched this while at work today, delivering for Amazon. I was just trying to find funny South Park clips, not a depressing look into my life 😭
This is so true. I am semi retired now from a professional career and being winter I fancied doing some casual work for a supermarket distribution centre, which is not far from where I live. Got to say its absolutely shocking the way people are treated with crazy targets and micro management from really piss poor managers. You can be stood in one place working on a pallet drop off and you get a text (auto generated or not I don't know) to "watch your still time - thank you".
It is absolutely soul crushing and must have something to do with middle aged male suicide rates.
That's bang out of order.I'm glad i closed my amazon account a few months ago.
I love how even after the prick dad cussed him out, Butters still had a smile on his face. Such a sweet soul. 0:20
yeah well that and, if you've watched enough of the show. That's kind of normal for butters dad. He's just used to it after all these years.
I think that was in there to illustrate how working class low wage men can end up becoming abusive. They have low self-esteem so they take it out on others.
A sweet soul? He's a cartoon The writers can make him be whatever they wish He's not real
If you have a moody dad who is defeated in life, you get used to it. Ask me how I know.
@@randyjones3050 nah, Butters’ parents have always sucked. Even his grandmother bullied him for a time.
Holy shit this is the highest level of satire that I've seen in a long long time. Perfect music choice
Recommended reading: "Hard Times" by Studs Terkel. Its a collection of memoirs of the great depression AND of people who were born after that have heard about it from others. Its both a record of what life was like during a massive traumatic event in American history and an in-depth look at the way that Americans remember the past. Extremely relevant content; I started reading it around the time I got back into South Park this year and its only served to make me more aware of what's happening in this country and why.
I bring it up because there's a chapter that opens on the lyrics to this song, and knowing that M+T have made multiple references to this song / time period in various episodes it feels appropriate to anyone into the way they depict the Amazon company town effect. We've been here before, and we won't get out of it (barring the country getting into another "great" war), if we don't learn a lesson from the past.
If you would like to look up the cause of the great depression, part and parcel to it was joseph kennedy. One effect was it gave fdr an excuse to enact a great redistribution of wealth from the middle class to the poor. Shock media was showing family dogs being boiled in the soup pot. We live in the information age now. We can take back our state legistlators, we can take back our congress, and we can take back the presidency and all that comes with it.
I've worked in a warehouse for the last 16 years and this pretty much sums it up. It's soul destroying back braking work but bills need paying some how .
Should have got an education mate...sucks for you
Butters' smile gets me every time after his dad yells at him lol
The fact that Butters' parents call him Butters gets me every time
Probably the only attention he gets so he loves every minute of it 😂
Someone once called the Amazon logo a smirk and I've not unseen it since.
"FCK YOU SON!"
*Butters smiling happily at his dad*
He's too damn pure.
This song genuinely makes me nauses and anxious. Every lyric is terrifyingly true to life.
They didn’t even show the horrendous break pack department! That’s where I worked. I only lasted about a week. Job was horrible, but the main reason I couldn’t hack it was due to the commute. Figured I could find another shitty job closer to home lol
I've worked in logistics once but not at amazon. What do they do in the break pack department?
They'll probably make a new warehouse down the street
well thats working in logistics, if you want a fulfilling job just do literally anything else
@@ewaldseiland8558 you basically box various products and put a label on them
@@JonathanRodriguez-hm7jp Yes I did that too. I also went through endless aisles with a scanner and put boxes onto my cart. I guess I walked a half-marathon every shift
For everyone saying this was so accurate, yes, only to the good parts. What about waiting in line for an hour before shift to go through security. What about lack of bathroom breaks and being fired just so they can meet turnover quotas. How about all the devices they use to monitor employees and how much time they take to complete an order/package. This is a great video highlighting working at a fulfillment center, a bad video of showing what working at an Amazon fulfillment center is like. Way too many basic human rights were shown.
But remember that Amazon was founded by a man and run by people that support and fund woke liberal talking politicians and causes that will make sure that the working class is represented in their best interests....
.... To be monitored, indentured coal miners in a tech catalog warehouse educated for nothing else... Buying from the company stores.
Keep your eyes on the scales and a hand on your wages.
@@STho205 that very much what that side thinks the poor needs.
I have allways been on the other side were you get a low level job and if you put in hard work then you get to a higher level..
You keep going up or moving to other companies that need your skills..
Eventually you can then start your own business were you hire people and help them raise themsleves up..
If you don't want to work hard then you can stay at a level or responsability you are happy with..
Like with the previous head of McDonald's..
He started cleaning floor there and worked his way up through the whole company until he ran it all..
While Amazon uses AI's to hire and fire so little chance of raising up in that company.. They only care about sticking people in a spot and keeping them there..
They have no interest in supporting there hard working loyal workers...
They don't even respect their low level workers as human beings, they are just to be replaced with better robot positions..
They monitor every worker with thermal cameras to see things like their muscle usage etc..
That get sent into their hire and fire neural network..
You could get fired all becsue an AI decided that all people who had cooler bodies were not working to their highest level..
You could get fired becsue the AI saw a link between workers hair color and hard work..
You can't look at a neral network and understand what it's doing so they don't even know half the reasons it hires or fires people..
@@zakofrx Yet all of that started from a hard working guy who wanted to better himself by selling books out of his garage.
@@STho205 you honestly think liberals are the ones who keep taking from the poor and feeding it to the .1%?! Ever pay attention to politics at all? It’s conservative Republicans who raise taxes on the poor, take money from their govt assistance programs, and hand it over directly to enormous companies and industry partners of theirs when they get in mild financial trouble. Just because a few American billionaires pretend to be liberals doesn’t mean Democrats are responsible for what Republicans have been doing for over a century.
@@RLucas3000 And money turned him into greed-ridden, lying, self righteous, egomaniacal scumbag who hoards billions, doesn’t give shit to charity, and allows his company to treat his employees like indentured servants. Clearly there’s something wrong with a system that allows the majority of the country to struggle needlessly while feeding the rich more riches just for existing. Communism exists among the rich, not the poor. Don’t be so gullible.
Having worked as an order picker driver in an Amazon distribution center almost 20 years ago and seeing how much is automated blows my mind. All I can think is how much easier that job has become. It was 60 hours mandatory week and 80 during the holidays when I was there. I don’t know if that changed or not.
They aren’t allowed to work over 60 as of 2014. I worked there from January 14-April 15, first with a temp agency and then directly for Amazon. Most of my work has been warehouse work, but I will never go back to Amazon.
They only allowed 60 hours per week
Wow. Butters dad being nice to his son.
Yeah. Having Butters dad snapping on him over a bike contest is a way on being nice
Sarcasm is a lost art.
They all went to Bennigan's after this!
@@evancoffland19 sarcasm only works well if it’s funny.
Stotch did buy a bike horn and some other shit for his son from the company store at Amazon...
When I worked at Amazon they told us all employees would be getting double pay if we came in on thanksgiving. So we came in…and we’re told at 2 A.M. “sorry that only counts for certain employees and managers, you don’t qualify.” There was damn near a riot. I had only been there like 2 ish weeks but I immediately found a different job. I did stop at the grainger r ending machine and took some gloves. Random mandatory overtime, tape on the clocks so you only know when your lunch is or quitting time, one bathroom, they clock you out if your bathroom break takes too long, if you don’t make sure you got clocked back in after taking a crap they tell you “thanks for the charity” and steal your time no matter if you’re literally on camera working while “clocked out.”
"Loo loo loo, I've got some apples, loo loo loo, you've got some too, loo loo loo, let's get together, take off our clothes and loo loo loo" 😂
Can we just appreciate how well animated south park has become over the last few seasons. Like it's had really good animation for some time now, but this segment was REALLY well done. It looks nothing like it did 10 seasons ago.
i dont appreciate it at all. I appreciate the old style for it being comedic style itself. Now its just another vfx
Content has bottomed out (not terrible, but not the level it used to be because I mean… they gave us 17 years of gold they can’t be expected to do it forever) but yeah the animation is dope now lol
Well done South Park! A 21st century, digital version of a coal mine in a company town. Change is a peculiar thing. Somehow, the essence remains the same.
The funniest thing to me is that when I worked at Amazon as a driver, I listened to this song quite a lot. Often times with the windows down and the volume maxed out lol. Didn’t even realize it was in a South Park episode
Hope I at least got a chuckle out of anyone that witnessed it lol
This should be mandatory viewing material for the entire nation.
When my kids are old enough I will show them the episode where Stan's dad has a drinking problem and Satan explains how addiction works. SP do an amazing job presenting many topics in an easily-consumable form.
Decency and logic aren't even mandatory anymore.
This is the song Butters was singing while shoveling coal in a bear suit when Paris Hilton tried to buy him.
Southpark knocks another one out the ballpark. That was depressingly and hilariously accurate.
Remember, there are Amazon employees *getting paid extra* to say good things about the company on social media.
You must also remember, that unions are paying extra to certain “members” to spread lies on social media about Amazon
@@sandtoy11510 not even remotely true
I’m watching this while at break at Amazon warehouse fallfilment.
People took the accomplishments of a strong labour movement/ Unions for granted and acted like unions are outdated and class struggle is over. Now we see the results
This is result of eliminating all trade barriers with low cost countries. Now workers have zero power. That is the real problem.
We voted in folks that are anti-union, we bought cheap overseas products instead of American made goods. Our govt allowed companies to move overseas and then compete directly with American labor with no tariffs, and we are reaping the results. Corp money runs the country rather than we the people.
@@Mlogan11 Same here in the UK.
Trade unions leaders got bought. So that didnt help either..
Labor unions are just so corrupt and ineffectual. They waste their member's money, they get people fired, they get jobs sent overseas, and put employers out of business.
Now we get a proper socialist paradise, government-sponsored megacorporations that rule the fucking world.
They really couldn't have chosen a better song for this scene
I usually find what I want on Amazon, and then order the item directly from the original supplier. Usually get it cheaper or still free shipping so I don't have to support Jeff bezos
lmfao
The accuracy of some of this is astounding (SLAM machines).
2:40 but then you see an associate in a PIT area
Just because it’s not supposed to happen doesn’t mean it doesn’t
When i worked at Amazon, if there wasn’t a manager around you’d see people in the PIT areas sometimes
They forgot to add how the managers are constantly blabbering about rates but pretty accurate
Song is called 16 Tons by Tennessee Ernie Ford. That voice is iconic
Butters happiness is everything for me 😉
You.can't not love Butters
I used to work for fulfillment center for Amazon. They seem to got it spot on.
That’s not just Amazon, this is every single warehouse/distribution centre
The parts with the fulfillment center are more accurate at 2× speed.
Underrated comment!
No, 2x is too slow.
Move it, move it, move it!!!
I just notice butters still smiling while his dad is losing his cool
He’s used to taking shit from his parents
@@evab100official else grounder mister
As someone who has never worked at Amazon before, I can say this is completely accurate.
I absolutely love the reaction from Stephen, totally relatable
This is an incredible achievement in animation
This show is pure genius
they brag in their commercials begging for employees with " solid pay" usually they dont mention its $16 an hour. thats just 2 bucks more then minimum wage in canada. sick company.
never would i have thought that a tennessee ernie ford song about coal miners would be so fitting for amazon warehouse workers until this episode
I worked at Amazon before and after a year I saw this. It made me think if I’m able to live a life like this, few months later found a job that I studied for. :) I am happy with it. Please don’t waste your time with this job and find the one you will be happy with.
The joy of being an hourly employee.
@2:08 FIFO stands for First In First Out. It's a global company standard to prevent old stock from lingering around
Worked there over 15 years. Scary accurate use of terminology and processes, as well as the general spirit of employees (there are some that are cheerful, the rest are just grinding through their days).
That’s why you need to develop a skill early in life. If you can’t to shit, you work for shit. Unskilled people don’t deserve more money. They need education and drive. Some dipshit putting things in a box doesn’t deserve more than minimum wage. Don’t care how rich the guy that’s employing ten’s of thousands of people is worth. If he takes his 180 billion and says fuck it, I’m out. Shut it down. All you unskilled workers are hoping to qualify for welfare or work the night shift at McDonald’s
@@BarryGraham55 Careful, my friend. I had more to do with the technology in use than the operator, and made plenty as a result. But yes, I, too, figured out how to escape.
@@RickJohnson yeah, you worked the technical side. You didn’t put shit in boxes.
I am slightly hurt and offended you would make something so good
I don't know why everybody hates working on Amazon I work in Lexington lex 2 and I like it everyone's friendly and polite.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: If it wasn't illegal to pay employees in scrip, Amazon would try to pay their employees in "Amazon Bucks" or some other Amazon only currency.
I worked at Amazon for 3 months a couple months before I went to welding school. All the tasks were very easy for me personally and I had recently quit another warehouse named radial (had way too much bullshit that it eventually became intolerable) and at first I didn't notice much. But one of the things that did happen a shit ton was huge favoritism in the management and if the managers or leads had relationships with one of the regular workers (yes that happened a shit ton of times btw) they were automatically the best of everyone which was straight up bullshit because most of those people fucked around doing nothing, combined that that a bunch of bullshit was happening there on the regular like only 3 bathrooms that were always taken and the management never communicated with others ever. That also became way too much for me to tolerate so I decided to quit night shift and start working landscaping for the rest of the time I was at home before leaving. I hated it working at amazon, but looking back it made me realize what life was like for those who struggle out there and it motivated me to do better in life.
I think the best subtle detail is how the Amazon delivery guy just left the packages on the doorstep even though Linda and Butters were clearly indoors all day
I worked at an amazon warehouse for about 3 months scanning boxes. Wasn't bad. But management were cunts demanding you come every day despite most of us working 3-5 days a week. I didnt want to work a holiday so i faked that i wasnt feeling well. Fuckers told me that if I didnt come that it would impact how everyone would see my performance. To this day I still don't regret flipping them all off for overworking the shit out of me.
Right? Management are such corporate shill, boot-licks. They seem to forget not everyone cares how others see their job performances. If the big boss makes in an hour what I make in a year, I’m not going to care at all. It’s a paycheck. That’s it.
@2:20 Is actually a position a I used to do that for 10 hours lol
Worked as a stower/packer for 5 months on the RT shift and was absolutely depressed. got fired because I got in a accident and couldn’t make it to work even though I let them kno, it was a blessing in disguise because I absolutely loathe that place
I ordered the rv toliet, it still hasn't arrived...
Damnnit Amazon.
It was sitting there on the shelf though. Damn those 1 day deliveries!