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Amazon drivers should dance: Viral Tiktok trend makes many parcel carriers angry
Have enough to do: Amazon drivers no longer want to dance during the delivery.
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Hundreds of parcels every day in wind and weather: Parcel service drivers do not have an easy job. A viral trend on Tiktok means that more and more messengers should also dance when the goods are delivered.
Parcel carriers at Amazon are not to be envied. As with the colleagues in the warehouse, the drivers are under great time pressure when delivering packages, have to keep their quotas and hardly have time to meet human needs.
This should actually be known due to the constant reporting. Nevertheless, numerous Tiktok users willingly ignore the conditions in order to follow a new trend: “Make your parcel delivery boy dance and show the world!”
“Dance for me”
Especially in the US, where there is now a security camera on almost every front door, parcel recipients are taking advantage of the surveillance of their front yard and putting up signs for drivers that simply say “dance for me”.
Sometimes, Vice reports, Amazon employees receive a corresponding request via an app before they arrive. Instructions for the delivery can be stored there, for example where a package should be left when you are absent.
This puts the drivers under a lot of pressure, because at Amazon the customer is always king, no matter what has to be done for it. When asked, many drivers said they sometimes ignored the requests, but Amazon has not yet backed them.
On the contrary: The owner of a delivery service explained that, strictly speaking, drivers had to adhere to the wishes of the recipients, otherwise they could collect negative points.
Amazon drivers’ anger is growing
Not everyone sees the instructions on the delivery address doors as casually as those who make the rounds in videos on Tiktok. A victim let his anger run free to Vice: “I’ve only seen these requests in the app so far. If they said it in person, I’d probably beat the shit out of them.”
And while a statement to protect employees is still pending, Amazon commented happily on a Tiktok video: “Poppin’ and lockin’ while box droppin'” (pun on dance styles). The Guardian comments, probably representative of many drivers: “Ask a delivery driver to dance is insane.”