Former Amazon employee blasts Bezos' retail giant's work conditions

Speaking exclusively to the NY Post, 46-year-old Maureen Donnelly said she was forced to hand in her resignation to her Amazon bosses in October last year, having enrolled in the company's ranks just one month earlier.

A former paramedic and newsroom Clerk, Donnelly insists she isnt someone who shies away from hard work, but she says the conditions inside the 855,000-square-foot packing plant were simply unbearable

Donnelly isnt alone in her claims. On Monday, more than 100 protestors rallied in front of the building where she briefly worked, demonstrating against harsh working conditions and worryingly high rates of workplace injuries.

When Donnelly first secured her job at Amazon she says she was excited about the prospect that laid ahead, working for one of the worlds biggest companies.

But after enduring 12 hour shifts with limited breaks, sweltering temperatures and filled with 'mind numbing labor', Connelly's ardor quickly soured.

While enthusiastic Amazon recruiters bragged to Donnelley about the size of the four-story Staten Island fulfilment center known as JKF8 telling her it was big enough to fit 18 football fields inside, she would soon learn the sheer size of the building would pose a huge problem for the workers within

From her first day on the job, Donnelly claims managers would regularly drum into her that Amazon is the best place to work - later reflecting on the purported persistent reiterations to be cult-like.

She was assigned the role of a stower, who are responsible for stocking shelves and calling racks, requiring her to work alongside squat, square orange robots which carried eight-foot-tall yellow racks between workers across the warehouse floor.

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