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.
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.
@@ukmedicfrcs No, you just die of stress-related illnesses like heart disease, not to mention the pandemic we're still dealing with. You wear out your joints because you have to keep moving, and it's really hard to go to the bathroom. So we're not killing literal children anymore? Fine, great, but that doesn't mean there ain't problems. It's only an OSHA violation if you get caught.
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.
The true definition of a mega-corporation, where you literally pay half your paycheck back to the same company you work for in order to enjoy a basic modern quality of life. Southpark hit the vibe perfectly.
Along with the song as it was written with Kentucky coal miners in mind from the days where the house you lived in and the store you bought your goods from where owned by the coal mine.
@@bhe8336 because the workers are treated like shit. Libtards like you are why communism exists. Most people are too smart to realize that it’s a stupid ideology, but when you morons can’t understand their struggle, then you don’t give them many options.
Honestly, all the positive "affirmations" written all over the walls of my fulfillment center was the most disturbing part considering the hellish work environment. Amazon is a dystopian hell.
I was a contractor that filled and sold safety equipment for FCs and this is pretty solid. The only non miserable dudes were the maintenance team. I came out of the shitter and some rando told me that I went twice in an hour then she saw my contractor badge. RIP amazon employees.
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.
having worked at amazon, this is the most accurate depiction ever. it's completely soulless and you're just a cog in the machine getting orders to customers as fast as possible.
@@kingnothing5678 4 days of 10 hours, lunch was 30 minutes and there were also two 20 minute paid breaks in the first and second half of the day. I honestly didn't mind the job except for the fact that i was in a delivery station and there you're not just working in your own little space with robots like FCs, you rely on others to do their job properly and a few people just didn't care at all and threw packages wherever making everyone else's jobs harder and then you get yelled at by managers for not being fast enough when it's not even your fault.
@@kingnothing5678 the pay and benefits are pretty insane though for a no skill entry level job compared to working in restaurants especially quick service/fast food.
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.
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.
@@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 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 worked for Amazon in Memphis, for a night and a half. First night was orientation so it didn’t seem bad until they showed us around on the floor. Everybody looked beyond depressed. Night 2 we got taken to our station which was returns, which was all the way in the back and reeked of piss. When we got our “break” it was impossible to even get to the break room before it was time to walk all the way back. They hire in groups (about 40 of us in a group.) We talked with this one girl who had been there a month and was the last in her group. We all walked out together at midnight on our lunch break and we all just left. Went home, climbed in bed, woke up, applied for a new job, had the new job at 3pm, 15 hours after walking out of Amazon
@@Dimeinurearnot really, I was in and out of Amazon like prison for 4 years. Chances were that if your orientation group was about 15-20 people there would only be about 7-8 left after “break”. It’s a brutal job to say the least, I’ve never been treated so subhuman-like in my life.
LOL. You sound like me at the JC Penny distribution center in the mid-nineties where I took a part time job to make extra money. My first shift, I spent four hours unloading a 53' tractor trailer load of huge boxes of comforters, bedspreads, and pillows until my left shoulder finally gave in, but I kept working, pulling the biggest boxes off from the top of the stack, letting them fall onto me and guiding them over onto the roller conveyor, one after another. Toward the end of the shift, the supervisor came over and said "I've been watching you and want to offer you more hours." I laughed and told him that would be my last shift. He frowned and walked away.
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
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.”
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.
I worked at a fulfillment center for a while. I didn’t mind the physical aspect of the work, but if I stayed there it would’ve crushed my soul. I have absolutely zero doubt about that. I’m lucky I realized that in time
@@bobcarter2329 I now work as a librarians assistant. It’s around the same pay but i get to feel like I am actually helping the public, and its somewhat related to what I went to school for. There’s nothing inherently wrong with working at Amazon if you need to, as I will admit that the pay is semi competitive for a fairly easy to get job. It was just that I have never felt like more of a number then when I worked there if that makes any sense. Of course the enticing pay and quick turnover are major components of Amazons business philosophy. Take that how you will. It just didn’t feel like something I would’ve been happy with long term. Just my opinion of course
@@AldogVids I see, that’s good to hear that you’re doing something closer to what you actually want to be doing.. I don’t actually work for Amazon, but I work in a large warehouse kitting out work vans with electrical supplies, specified by the individual companies... Don’t get me wrong it’s not boring boring, it’s just not what I imagined I would be doing for the rest of my life... Little to no increase in job prospects and only a slight pay % increase each year. I’ve already walked out of a warehouse job involving book sales about 10 years ago, because I felt like I was wasting my best years, and now this job is starting to feel all to similar... Its the small amount of left over pay I have left for myself that gets me down, which just doesn’t give me any opportunity to save up for something decent, and the small amount of holiday time...
I knew someone who worked at the Amazon fulfillment center and he told me that he had one hour to fulfill 60 package orders. Think about it, that's one package per minute. When would one have even a second to go to the bathroom?
Yea, only fulfillment I worked at was gap, I felt like I could bearly breath w the rates they had and I also feel once you reached that rate they would raise it and it was so bad I just stopped showing up, fedex unloading trailors was the worst job in life I had felt like prision
I worked at an Amazon fulfillment center for a year and some change. The one thing that struck me about this was how accurate the inside of the building was. For those who've never worked at Amazon, it almost looks exactly like this right down to the break rooms. I'm surprised that they didn't include those little 'suicide boxes' that have telephones directly linked to suicide prevention hotlines. I'm proud to say that I stole so much time from Amazon on my clock-ins and outs. I got fired for it later, but I'd been doing it for so long and nobody noticed until I had to fix my time card. And you bet your ass I would do it again at Amazon. Love my new job! Get out and find something better.
this lol, I worked there for a year, spent most of my time on the toilet watching breaking bad, if youre smart enough, you can outsmart the amazon task system, I wonder if they ever found out because I left to go to university, but my breaks were always more than 15 - 30 - 15 minutes, my lunch breaks used to be at least an hour.
True but his paycheck will be spent at the liquor store and not brought home. He will self sabotage himself to keep him beneath everyone kind of like people do in real life
I love the part where Stephen Stotch comes back home with the Amazon packages and gives Linda Stotch a whisk that looks exactly the same as the hand whisk she is already using except for with a hand crank. A completely unnecessary purchase that sums up consumer culture perfectly.
Reminds me of a single-panel comic I once saw titled "Consumerisms biggest threat" and it was an ordinary dude standing in front of an ordinary house saying something to the effect of "Everything I own works fine and I'm content with what I have."
its coping mechanism. I know it too well. After years of yelling he just realised its not worth the stress. And its a good thing too, it builds a mental wall in your head that helps you keep your head cool and you dont take anything personaly.
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.
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.
A lot of people here don't understand whats bad about this kind of Job. Its not the work, driving, monotony. The problem is the horrible treatment of workers. The unbearable micro managing, the ridiculous productivity goals, constant threat of being fired, constant cameras watching you, security frisking you. Amazon treats you like a robot, and that's the problem. There's other warehouse Jobs that super chill to work at while being just as productive. Just need to treat you as a human.
The hard truth is, if you don’t want to work like a robot, then they will find a true robot to replace you. Its not the good old time that human fighting human, its the time that something you did or did not expect can both took your job.
I don't think people who haven't worked there realise how ridiculous the productivity goals are and how much you meeting it depends on luck and their algorithms..
I work for a Tiffany & Co warehouse ,and that environment is far more chill . Not to mention they don’t treat you like a slave /robot , managers /supervisors know your name , and they got a cafeteria where they cook breakfast and lunch
@@daltonoakleyjr391 yeah I don’t understand why at places like Google and Facebook where people make at least a decent wage, the workers get free food everyday. But at a place like Amazon where you make starvation wages, does Amazon provide meals everyday?
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.
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 drive a city bus, and one of my routes takes 10-15 Amazon fulfillment center workers to work... they've got to be some of the saddest sacks I've ever seen, and I see a lot of people on my bus. They look and act like scruffy zombies - makes me depressed just loading them in the bus, knowing they have a long day of drudgery in store. 😞
@@SamBrickell It's the same for me I work as a train conductor and I see Amazon workers on my train all day just like @JN. I also worked at Amazon years ago after recovering from a car accident. I feel sorry for the workers because I know what they have to deal with everyday.
I worked in a factory making pallets for a while, the job was repetitive, mind numbing, and honestly I don't remember half of it. The job wasn't too bad except no heating or air. After that I went back to college and honestly I don't know what to say since I'm struggling to find my career. But honestly, even now, I don't mind it because during college I found a job that paid just as much in a better environment. Factory work is bearable but damn does it get boring.
Was a flex contractor for a year at Amazon. Everyone at these centers looked stressed and really on edge. The manager seemed smug as hell too. Each month we were expected to deliver more than the previous. Deliver 17 packages in 3 hours. (No problem) Then 24, then 29, then they only have 4 hour slots so they can give you more to deliver. When I saw that I had 58 deliveries to do in 4 hours with a 50 minute drive away to my first delivery it was just to much and stopped then and there. I was working hours for free to finish my shift. Also you pay for your own gas and that eats heavily into your pay. When I gave feedback to Amazon they took away my schedule.
I worked for a Delivery Service Partner, driving the actual vans that say Amazon. They actually calculate the square footage of the oversize packages and totes, so they know EXACTLY how many packages can be loaded for your route. We had to deliver at a rate of something like 35 per hour. Sustained over a ten hour shift, split among all different kinds of houses, apartments, townhomes, and condos, it works out to less than two minutes on each delivery. Less than 120 seconds to first of all find all the packages for one “stop”, scan them, carry them to the house or up the apartment stairs, photograph them, walk back to the van, and tell the phone you’re ready for the next. Keeping that average is so hard that it’s virtually impossible to do it with the method that Amazon wants you to do it with, so every single driver makes their own system to reach the mandatory goals. I was told immediately “forget everything they told me in that class” because it didn’t work out on the road.
Was a driver for amazon, lasted a month. You get yelled at and ridiculed for asking questions in the fulfillment center, the people who worked at the one I drove for were very grumpy and unhappy people. The work was always way too much and you were expected, as a driver, to deliver everything no matter the amount. I'd clock in around 10:30am to 10:45am and be clocking out around 11pm and be home passed midnight pretty much everyday. When i quit the dispatcher lady i worked with told me she didn't blame me, and that the stress of the job makes her depressed quite often. You don't just a get job there, it becomes your life.
I did it for 3 months and it wasn’t that bad, just super tiring at apartments, I live in vegas so it’s super hot here in the summer, I just got over it, I thought that after a month I would get used to it but Naa, f*ck that shitty job, got an easier and that pays more job now lol
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.
Yeah, my brother passed about 5 years ago. Same thing. Alcoholism led to his three strokes. He kept drinking even after his first stroke which damn near killed him itself and left half his body paralyzed. Third stroke got him. Found his body in his basement apartment where he was surrounded by a case of empty beer cans. So, you certainly have my sympathies. Condolences.
This is EXTREMELY accurate. There's like minor things that are different, like we don't walk around with those orange robots, but there are some they walk around with in different types of centers. I really do have to give them props for getting it so close considering the animators aren't working in one of the FC's. I am hoping I can move up from grunt to drone pilot someday.
They are automated with 8 different cameras for navigation and sensors to detect people close to them. They also occupy some lanes used to move from pallets to truck staging. The only way it isnt accurate is there are a lot more conveyers. It looks like a dream build in satisfactory.
South park's normally really good with comedy through exaggeration, but I love the direction here just showing how amazon workers go about their days with no frills, while at the same time showing why amazon will never die I also like this episode onward giving Steven more stuff to do
@@kallmannkallmann What are you talking about? Amazon has warehouses in Sweden and opened a Swedish version of their storefront in the fall of last year. Though currently they aren't actually that price competitive on many products and the translation for most items is dog shit.
Sixteen tons by Tennessee Ernie Ford is a great song. Forty years ago, when I was a kid, I worked for K-Mart. They would pay us in cash. The reason is employees would buy stuff before leaving the store.
In my village in England, the landowner also ran the pub. He made the agricultural workers come to the pub to collect their wages. Obviously, they would then spend much of it on beer. This went on until the late 1960s
@@timcombs2730yeah...K-mart was just as soulless as Amazon. I worked at one in the late 80's. You felt like a slave there as well. A cog in the machine.
The song is in reference to the coal mining industry and the towns they created around them to keep people working and the money flowing right back to them. The Ludlow Massacre is a horrific story on corporate America. Amazon would like nothing more to turn small city’s/towns into their own.
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
@@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.
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
@@insertfakenamehere6507 half? Here in germany in NRW literally 3800 of the 4100 workers are literally Black african migrants of which most just speak english. Not kidding you at all its horrifying
You can get amazon prime like any other idiot if you sign up for it. This whole comment is retarded and you should be embarrassed and ashamed of yourself.
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.
Amazon Fullfillment was the most soul sucking job I've ever had... I would spend some days so sore to do the job at the speed they wanted and others I would be on the verge of tears for hours
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.
I've worked in a "Fulfillment Centre" and rather liked it as a temporary job only. I did get frisked by the "security gestapo" on too many occasions though - and that's the only aspect missing from the South Park depiction - which was my main reason for leaving at the time. If prisoner roleplays are your thing, you'd love an Amazon job 👍
@Tournel Henry it's not a stupid and unwarranted rule. Unless your job requires the use of a phone it is a distraction that reduces productivity and concentration on the task at hand.
Unbelievable. I`m watching South Park for 15 years now. It once aired on MTV here in Germany in my youth. It always was unique with a massive depth of pinpointing on trends within the society or covering current events. What I love is that Matt & Trey never lost their soul. They stayed humble within the early hypes and man they signed a $ 900 Million contract with viacom this year. Holy cow. Kids out there, this is a lesson for your life: Stick to what you believe in!
Its remarkable for a show to not lose its integrity after that long. South Park will certainly get the last laugh, long after the Simpsons and Family Guy have long lost their edge.
I love South Park, but you better believe Matt & Trey sold their souls. They critcize society yes, but South Park gets to decide the boundaries of what criticizing society should look like. They get to draw the borders of the box that reads 'edgy teens and what they believe in'. Believe you me they can go way, waaay deeper and uncover a whole lot more bad stuff, which they wouldn't ever or they'd have to say bye bye to that 900 mil contract and would've never gotten a first contract to begin with. :)
@@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.
It's Walmart all over again. The employees get paid such crap money that they can only afford to shop at Walmart/Amazon which puts the money right back in the company's pocket.
That's an insult to Walmart honestly, sure they paid dogshit, but at least it had competitors like Publix, Kroger, and Target. Now Amazon can swing its dick around because it knows that nobody can compete with it.
Those amongst the oldest of us will remember the old mill towns where everyone worked at the mill and the mill owned everything including your house and the corner (company) store and everything it sold back to you. We haven’t escaped the vicious cycle at all. Round and round.
Politicians, parties, and corporations use the same strategies of dominance they always have. They slap different names on things, the details can be a little different, but overall nothing has ever changed and if you look closely from one country to another, regardless of the overall system or status of the country, everything is pretty much the same. Things work as they always have from the beginning of civilization.
My small town of approx. 6000 people has a major problem buying this disposable junk. I'm soon to be an ex postal employee here with 25+ years and finally saying screw it. It's not worth the mental and physical anguish anymore. I feel for all delivery companies.
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 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.
@@PerfectlyFunctioningAI 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.
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.
I know. It seems crazy how this country abolished slavery, then abolished labor practices like the “company store” that approximated slavery, then created workplace safety and overtime regulations, but things change very little when you look at it like this.
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.
And this is what makes a great modern comedy/cartoon, doing things that really hit home for the viewer, and not caring about using the real names of companies when you want to talk about then negatively.
It also is trying to show how Amazon literally owns their employees, like indentured servants. Everything they use at home is Amazon too.. sounds like that 1984 book
@@NWLegacyChannel Yes, similar to how in some industries back in the day (mills and mines especially) you weren't paid in money but in vouchers/tokens to use at the companies shop. Naturally the items in said shop, food Etc., were overpriced and so you ended up just making you masters even richer by being made to shop there and potentially getting yourself into debt because of the prices because you have to eat if you are doing a strenuous job and they knew that. Which, of course, is the subject of "Sixteen Tons".
@@NWLegacyChannel how is it like 1984 no one is forced to use Amazon stuff they all do it by choice. They don't even get discounts. It's trying to show how people are hypocrites and will complain about something but then use it when they need it.
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.
It’ll be the Walmart of online retail. Reliable and cheap but there are other places to shop with better quality products. Not filled with Chinese knock offs
@@thedailyremedy968 But UBI will be considered Communism and will never pass. The masses will just be poor and desperate while they build more prisons to get all the desperate people when they eventually fuck up.
I worked at FedEx temporarily through the Christmas season. I would sing this song on repeat while loading boxes into the trucks. Absolutely soul crushing job
I once heard a comedian describe comedy as truth without the pain. Watching this, I think there is still a lot of pain but damn good job nailing the narrative of it all SP!
Although there's no humor in this aside from what I hear it being deadly accurate, it DOES make you realize how much stuff a person including myself buys from Amazon and how much work goes into getting one useless nonsensical item to my house I'll probably reconsider it next time, good job Matt Stone and Trey Parker for continually adapting to make things relevant.
I have boycotted Amazon for years, easy to find other sellers, or manufacturers websites, other websites; heck, even order straight from China (aliexpress), just takes weeks to arrive, but worth not giving Amazon the money.
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.
@Denam I've worked at a FC for Office supplies and my cousin and her wife work at an Amazon FC. I always said Amazon would be my last resort. However, my cousin has a daughter and bills to pay. I guess that answers your question, there's a lot of reasons but like this video shows, kids and other dependants are the reason people still work in these FC because they provide essential benefits.
@Denam it's not that they choose to work there it's what they end up with. Nobody and I mean Nobody wants to work at Amazon but the bills have to get paid.
@@2010drive it greatly depends where you’re living, actually. In my area in southern Arizona it’s become absolutely dead and nobody is hiring within 60 miles. But in the area of SoCal where my family lives, there’s tons of jobs.
Why’s that, exactly? Factory and mail jobs have always sucked ass, I don’t see why Amazon is so much worse. I get that they treated their workers like shit but didn’t they increase their pay rate and stuff because of all the bad publicity? Just curious. I have a fulfillment center not too far and have been tempted to apply.
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. 🍻
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
I talked to my coworker who got promoted to QA he said he watches movies all day and does about only 2-3hrs of actual work a day. He said his superior he has no idea what he does, he goes out for "lunch" a lot. Lol Living the dream.
I used to work in a large bakery which mass produced hamburger buns and muffins for McDonald’s. Those fluorescent lights and large grey walls are completely accurate. The only difference was it was 110 inside during hot summer days and 12 hour shifts were the norm due to demand. There’s something about working inside a factory every day that takes your soul.
Not discounting your experience at all, but could you imagine a 1800s factory 🤯💀☠ I don't know how they did it. Or miners like the song was referencing. Miners back then would get paid in the company's currency that could only be spent in mining town trapping them there to work.
I really feel for the guys who work in these places because from what I've read elsewhere and of course the comments here the place is a hellhole. I know a lot of companies have horrible toxic environments which is why I do my best to treat any customer facing employees as nicely as I can. I worked in a really horrendous environment for a few years and I saw everything from mental breakdowns to rampant drug use. I even saw our CEO get punched out by someone who had just snapped. Probably why Jeff Bezos will never set foot in an amazon warehouse haha.
I have no idea what these people are talking about, I much prefer working here than customer service and I have not been treated horribly or yelled at once. Maybe it is just not difficult for me to make the desired rate or something, but most of the people I work with are kind and mind their own business. I knew what I was getting into when I signed up but the people in the comments seem to have had the absolute worst experience. Amazon hires so many people and you won’t hear about people liking their job online because most people who give an opinion on something complain about it since why would you feel the need to if you were doing fine
@@youtubedislikebutton9316 I know of others who have a good experience. Theres a big sign on bonus but you have to be there like two three months and drug addicts often try to game it by goofing around until bonus time is up.
Notice how he keeps buying stuff online ? He's hooked... At the begining he says money is tight, so gotta work, than he spend all the money buying stuff online..hence being still tight... Vicious circle of endless debt. Spot on.
Well, you also have to remember South Park is a small town and I live in a small town too so I know what it's like to have limited options for shopping. We have five different dollar stores in my town and the nearest real city is an hour drive from my house.
That's why they used this song, it's about how the old coal mines operated. The "Company Store" was an onsite store that gouged workers for basic goods. Since there was nowhere else to spend their money, many worked in an indefinite loop of paying off company store credit.
@@andydomonkos8308 thanks for the éducation. In a way if i put your comment with the prévious one.. Amazon is doing the "old coal mine generals store" in a new century 2.0 High Tech way. Smart capitalism, like Ford who Saïd employés should buy the car they build...your employee are your number1 customer
worked in amazon for 2 years. started as a seasonal employee in 2018 for $12.50. the pay bump raised when it hit october-november of 2018 to $15. did it for awhile while i did full time schooling. 3 days of 10 hour shifts, and moved up to management as an L3, to be promotable to L4. the only reason i think most stay aside from the paycheck every week would be the coworkers. met a lot of good friends from working @ the delivery station, not fulfillment center since it was more strict.
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.'
Our generation grew up playing Monopoly the bored game so they view monopolies as a good thing! But they wreck havoc on small businesses which is the backbone of America!
I worked at Amazon in the UK for three months over Christmas. It was actually alright, but it's only alright if you're prepared to accept that you're gonna be working really hard throughout the night for ten hours doing an insanely repetitive task, and then repeating the whole thing again every night for the rest of the week. The managers were decent really laid back, we used headphones and got free food and bottles of water. I also got paid a £2000 bonus just for joining and the money was good anyway. Was it a long term career choice, nah definitely not, but it was a decent place to do some graft to get some money together. I bet if you worked at the wrong factory though, where the managers were peices of shit, then it would be the worst job on the planet.
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.
This is one of the best scenes of a cartoon, or show, in recent memory. This was brilliantly written for several reasons. Loved it. Amazing how South Park continues to deliver decades later.
Watch full episodes of South Park: cart.mn/episodes
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.
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...
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.
That song choice was perfect. It made the correlation between early 19th-century mine workers and amazon employees perfectly.
Except you don't die of black lung, cave ins, cancer working at Amazon. Yes the similarities are eerie.
@@ukmedicfrcs No, you just die of stress-related illnesses like heart disease, not to mention the pandemic we're still dealing with. You wear out your joints because you have to keep moving, and it's really hard to go to the bathroom. So we're not killing literal children anymore? Fine, great, but that doesn't mean there ain't problems. It's only an OSHA violation if you get caught.
I think that was their point
Yeah like those 19th century employees had it made. At least they had natural sunlight
@@tebjosh13 not really
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.
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" 🤣
It's amazing that Amazon let the SP crew film inside their fulfillment centers.
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FUUNY!!!
Source please
@@horrorgamer5255 it's a joke. Lmao 😅
ikr
The true definition of a mega-corporation, where you literally pay half your paycheck back to the same company you work for in order to enjoy a basic modern quality of life. Southpark hit the vibe perfectly.
Along with the song as it was written with Kentucky coal miners in mind from the days where the house you lived in and the store you bought your goods from where owned by the coal mine.
@@joshgreene7013 yikes
Why is convenient and affordable products with a job that pays a wage bad? Smells red in here.
You're probably buying stuff you don't even need
@@bhe8336 because the workers are treated like shit. Libtards like you are why communism exists. Most people are too smart to realize that it’s a stupid ideology, but when you morons can’t understand their struggle, then you don’t give them many options.
Honestly, all the positive "affirmations" written all over the walls of my fulfillment center was the most disturbing part considering the hellish work environment. Amazon is a dystopian hell.
The lack of windows and abundant concrete walls felt like hell
Are you not fulfilled?
"You're appreciated" .. whenever I hear this spoken, I get irrationally angry.
Please. It's the easiest job I've ever had. Try the restaraunt industry or construction
Work will set you free
I was a contractor that filled and sold safety equipment for FCs and this is pretty solid. The only non miserable dudes were the maintenance team. I came out of the shitter and some rando told me that I went twice in an hour then she saw my contractor badge. RIP amazon employees.
Damn bro.
God forbid any of them have diarrhea on one of their shifts
Wow
Union
Holy $hit!
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.
having worked at amazon, this is the most accurate depiction ever. it's completely soulless and you're just a cog in the machine getting orders to customers as fast as possible.
How long were lunches and how many breaks did you get?
@@kingnothing5678 4 days of 10 hours, lunch was 30 minutes and there were also two 20 minute paid breaks in the first and second half of the day. I honestly didn't mind the job except for the fact that i was in a delivery station and there you're not just working in your own little space with robots like FCs, you rely on others to do their job properly and a few people just didn't care at all and threw packages wherever making everyone else's jobs harder and then you get yelled at by managers for not being fast enough when it's not even your fault.
@@kingnothing5678 the pay and benefits are pretty insane though for a no skill entry level job compared to working in restaurants especially quick service/fast food.
I'm a grocery picker in a warehouse and damn this comment hit me like a train it's spot on💀
What else could it possibly be? You're there to do a job, a job that is mechanistic and repetitive. It's not a party...
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
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
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.
Jeff bezos didn't like how accurate this episode was. 😭😭😂🤣
No way. 😂😂
I Pity the Fool
@GordoScarface I dont get why people hate him, don't you wish you had as much money as him?
@@rockycuro7737 no, not like that and what has that to do with anything. he is a criminal. He makes a monopoly
@@seife41 but he makes bank, monopolizing gets you rich i thought the board game taught us this.
I worked for Amazon in Memphis, for a night and a half. First night was orientation so it didn’t seem bad until they showed us around on the floor. Everybody looked beyond depressed. Night 2 we got taken to our station which was returns, which was all the way in the back and reeked of piss. When we got our “break” it was impossible to even get to the break room before it was time to walk all the way back. They hire in groups (about 40 of us in a group.) We talked with this one girl who had been there a month and was the last in her group. We all walked out together at midnight on our lunch break and we all just left. Went home, climbed in bed, woke up, applied for a new job, had the new job at 3pm, 15 hours after walking out of Amazon
Based
@@Dimeinurearnot really, I was in and out of Amazon like prison for 4 years. Chances were that if your orientation group was about 15-20 people there would only be about 7-8 left after “break”. It’s a brutal job to say the least, I’ve never been treated so subhuman-like in my life.
@@XanViciousthey’re calling the guy who left based
U lazy idiot😅😊😊😊
LOL. You sound like me at the JC Penny distribution center in the mid-nineties where I took a part time job to make extra money. My first shift, I spent four hours unloading a 53' tractor trailer load of huge boxes of comforters, bedspreads, and pillows until my left shoulder finally gave in, but I kept working, pulling the biggest boxes off from the top of the stack, letting them fall onto me and guiding them over onto the roller conveyor, one after another. Toward the end of the shift, the supervisor came over and said "I've been watching you and want to offer you more hours." I laughed and told him that would be my last shift. He frowned and walked away.
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. :)
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.
I worked at a fulfillment center for a while. I didn’t mind the physical aspect of the work, but if I stayed there it would’ve crushed my soul. I have absolutely zero doubt about that. I’m lucky I realized that in time
@@meirsahar7355 lol I’ll pass
@@AldogVids What did you do instead?
@@bobcarter2329 I now work as a librarians assistant. It’s around the same pay but i get to feel like I am actually helping the public, and its somewhat related to what I went to school for. There’s nothing inherently wrong with working at Amazon if you need to, as I will admit that the pay is semi competitive for a fairly easy to get job. It was just that I have never felt like more of a number then when I worked there if that makes any sense. Of course the enticing pay and quick turnover are major components of Amazons business philosophy. Take that how you will. It just didn’t feel like something I would’ve been happy with long term. Just my opinion of course
I feel like it's just a temporary thing to get back on your feet. 3 months tops, then quit, or work seasonally. No one should aspire to work there.
@@AldogVids I see, that’s good to hear that you’re doing something closer to what you actually want to be doing..
I don’t actually work for Amazon, but I work in a large warehouse kitting out work vans with electrical supplies, specified by the individual companies...
Don’t get me wrong it’s not boring boring, it’s just not what I imagined I would be doing for the rest of my life...
Little to no increase in job prospects and only a slight pay % increase each year.
I’ve already walked out of a warehouse job involving book sales about 10 years ago, because I felt like I was wasting my best years, and now this job is starting to feel all to similar...
Its the small amount of left over pay I have left for myself that gets me down, which just doesn’t give me any opportunity to save up for something decent, and the small amount of holiday time...
I knew someone who worked at the Amazon fulfillment center and he told me that he had one hour to fulfill 60 package orders. Think about it, that's one package per minute. When would one have even a second to go to the bathroom?
Yea, only fulfillment I worked at was gap, I felt like I could bearly breath w the rates they had and I also feel once you reached that rate they would raise it and it was so bad I just stopped showing up, fedex unloading trailors was the worst job in life I had felt like prision
I worked at an Amazon fulfillment center for a year and some change.
The one thing that struck me about this was how accurate the inside of the building was. For those who've never worked at Amazon, it almost looks exactly like this right down to the break rooms.
I'm surprised that they didn't include those little 'suicide boxes' that have telephones directly linked to suicide prevention hotlines.
I'm proud to say that I stole so much time from Amazon on my clock-ins and outs. I got fired for it later, but I'd been doing it for so long and nobody noticed until I had to fix my time card.
And you bet your ass I would do it again at Amazon.
Love my new job! Get out and find something better.
this lol, I worked there for a year, spent most of my time on the toilet watching breaking bad, if youre smart enough, you can outsmart the amazon task system, I wonder if they ever found out because I left to go to university, but my breaks were always more than 15 - 30 - 15 minutes, my lunch breaks used to be at least an hour.
I hope you left a shit on your bosses desk. That place sounds awful
Thank you for your service
Here’s hoping your next job doesn’t find out about your time clock fraud.
Seriously, the phone box thing isn't a joke? That's pretty fked
On the plus side, Kenny's father finally has regular work at the same level as everyone else.
True but his paycheck will be spent at the liquor store and not brought home. He will self sabotage himself to keep him beneath everyone kind of like people do in real life
It's actually prophetic when you think about it.
race to the bottom!
I did agree with Kyle's dad when he lashed out at him
Yeah but he has 3 children to feed.
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, ........
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.
I love the part where Stephen Stotch comes back home with the Amazon packages and gives Linda Stotch a whisk that looks exactly the same as the hand whisk she is already using except for with a hand crank. A completely unnecessary purchase that sums up consumer culture perfectly.
Reminds me of a single-panel comic I once saw titled "Consumerisms biggest threat" and it was an ordinary dude standing in front of an ordinary house saying something to the effect of "Everything I own works fine and I'm content with what I have."
@@spamviking Your comment deserves many many thumbs ups. Spot on!
The USA would fall apart with out unnecessary purchases. That is what greases the wheels of capitalism.
And yet boomers are getting pissed at millenials for not buying things and ruining markets.
@@SuperCosmicChaos I thought the blood of the workers greased the wheels?
I love how Butters is still smiling after his dad just yelled at him
I guess he's finally just repressing it at this point.
That's the deranged smile of Professor Chaos deep down within him plotting destruction and doom.
@@geigertec5921 He's gonna murder his dad in his sleep lol
its coping mechanism. I know it too well. After years of yelling he just realised its not worth the stress. And its a good thing too, it builds a mental wall in your head that helps you keep your head cool and you dont take anything personaly.
He's happy he didn't get grounded for once.
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
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
As someone who used to work there, I have to say that's exactly how I felt every single day. Also you don't get any prime membership discounts.
😲😲😲😲
That like not getting dental insurance when you work at the dentist. Glad I don't show on there lol
if i got prime discounts i wouldn't have minded that much
That's messed up. But hey bezos needs that money for another trip to space
@@Moowe291 Chill Jeff Bezos you're overreacting
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
A lot of people here don't understand whats bad about this kind of Job.
Its not the work, driving, monotony.
The problem is the horrible treatment of workers. The unbearable micro managing, the ridiculous productivity goals, constant threat of being fired, constant cameras watching you, security frisking you. Amazon treats you like a robot, and that's the problem.
There's other warehouse Jobs that super chill to work at while being just as productive. Just need to treat you as a human.
The hard truth is, if you don’t want to work like a robot, then they will find a true robot to replace you. Its not the good old time that human fighting human, its the time that something you did or did not expect can both took your job.
I don't think people who haven't worked there realise how ridiculous the productivity goals are and how much you meeting it depends on luck and their algorithms..
I work for the government and it’s pretty much the same!
I work for a Tiffany & Co warehouse ,and that environment is far more chill . Not to mention they don’t treat you like a slave /robot , managers /supervisors know your name , and they got a cafeteria where they cook breakfast and lunch
@@daltonoakleyjr391 yeah I don’t understand why at places like Google and Facebook where people make at least a decent wage, the workers get free food everyday. But at a place like Amazon where you make starvation wages, does Amazon provide meals everyday?
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 drive a city bus, and one of my routes takes 10-15 Amazon fulfillment center workers to work... they've got to be some of the saddest sacks I've ever seen, and I see a lot of people on my bus. They look and act like scruffy zombies - makes me depressed just loading them in the bus, knowing they have a long day of drudgery in store. 😞
You should drive them to a water park instead!
Wow, I never thought about city bus drivers knowing pretty much what kind of people are on their buses. It makes perfect sense.
@@SamBrickell It's the same for me I work as a train conductor and I see Amazon workers on my train all day just like @JN.
I also worked at Amazon years ago after recovering from a car accident.
I feel sorry for the workers because I know what they have to deal with everyday.
I worked in a factory making pallets for a while, the job was repetitive, mind numbing, and honestly I don't remember half of it. The job wasn't too bad except no heating or air.
After that I went back to college and honestly I don't know what to say since I'm struggling to find my career. But honestly, even now, I don't mind it because during college I found a job that paid just as much in a better environment. Factory work is bearable but damn does it get boring.
@@michaelj6392 I love this comment lmao
Was a flex contractor for a year at Amazon. Everyone at these centers looked stressed and really on edge. The manager seemed smug as hell too. Each month we were expected to deliver more than the previous. Deliver 17 packages in 3 hours. (No problem) Then 24, then 29, then they only have 4 hour slots so they can give you more to deliver. When I saw that I had 58 deliveries to do in 4 hours with a 50 minute drive away to my first delivery it was just to much and stopped then and there. I was working hours for free to finish my shift. Also you pay for your own gas and that eats heavily into your pay. When I gave feedback to Amazon they took away my schedule.
Flex has worn down my car.
@Wolfman no they are Freemason illuminati Lucifer worshipping assholes
I worked for a Delivery Service Partner, driving the actual vans that say Amazon. They actually calculate the square footage of the oversize packages and totes, so they know EXACTLY how many packages can be loaded for your route. We had to deliver at a rate of something like 35 per hour. Sustained over a ten hour shift, split among all different kinds of houses, apartments, townhomes, and condos, it works out to less than two minutes on each delivery. Less than 120 seconds to first of all find all the packages for one “stop”, scan them, carry them to the house or up the apartment stairs, photograph them, walk back to the van, and tell the phone you’re ready for the next. Keeping that average is so hard that it’s virtually impossible to do it with the method that Amazon wants you to do it with, so every single driver makes their own system to reach the mandatory goals. I was told immediately “forget everything they told me in that class” because it didn’t work out on the road.
@@existentiallychallenged5068 This would explain why my amazon packages are sometimes thrown out of a moving vehicle.
butt-boy bozo needs more money for another rocket ride to space. he loves looking down on you!
Was a driver for amazon, lasted a month. You get yelled at and ridiculed for asking questions in the fulfillment center, the people who worked at the one I drove for were very grumpy and unhappy people. The work was always way too much and you were expected, as a driver, to deliver everything no matter the amount. I'd clock in around 10:30am to 10:45am and be clocking out around 11pm and be home passed midnight pretty much everyday. When i quit the dispatcher lady i worked with told me she didn't blame me, and that the stress of the job makes her depressed quite often. You don't just a get job there, it becomes your life.
Better than me dude. I lasted one shift. 21.45 an hour is nice, but not when your manager is screaming more than a drill sergeant on day zero.
@@haywoodjablome7822 we have to change society so being yelled at is not part of a job. Nobody has the right to yell at each other
Maybe you need to wake up earlier to be a courier.
You can’t do that job in the dark, dogs will bark.
Good way to get rob by some pook mob.
I did it for 3 months and it wasn’t that bad, just super tiring at apartments, I live in vegas so it’s super hot here in the summer, I just got over it, I thought that after a month I would get used to it but Naa, f*ck that shitty job, got an easier and that pays more job now lol
Start earlier 🤷♂️ 10- 12 hrs is standard for couriers
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!
Yeah, my brother passed about 5 years ago. Same thing. Alcoholism led to his three strokes. He kept drinking even after his first stroke which damn near killed him itself and left half his body paralyzed. Third stroke got him. Found his body in his basement apartment where he was surrounded by a case of empty beer cans. So, you certainly have my sympathies. Condolences.
@@johnmonkey1874 Did he ever try to stop?
This is EXTREMELY accurate. There's like minor things that are different, like we don't walk around with those orange robots, but there are some they walk around with in different types of centers. I really do have to give them props for getting it so close considering the animators aren't working in one of the FC's. I am hoping I can move up from grunt to drone pilot someday.
Is that actually a position?
guessing the drones are automated. hope they don’t use google maps /s
They are automated with 8 different cameras for navigation and sensors to detect people close to them. They also occupy some lanes used to move from pallets to truck staging.
The only way it isnt accurate is there are a lot more conveyers. It looks like a dream build in satisfactory.
Do people who work at Amazon buy Amazon Prime?
@@tomeemerson Google maps is great. You missed with that joke lol.
South park's normally really good with comedy through exaggeration, but I love the direction here just showing how amazon workers go about their days with no frills, while at the same time showing why amazon will never die
I also like this episode onward giving Steven more stuff to do
We don't have amazon in Sweden and it will probably not change because we mostly live in flats
Not just Amazon though, there's literally millions of people living like this, going to jobs they hate, just to exist week to week.
@GordoScarface eh, feel free to buy stuff where you prefer, ill continue using Amazon since its cheaper and way easier than the alternatives
I work at Amazon, although not FOR Amazon. Their employees are treated far too well and anyone who tells you otherwise is full of isht.
@@kallmannkallmann What are you talking about? Amazon has warehouses in Sweden and opened a Swedish version of their storefront in the fall of last year.
Though currently they aren't actually that price competitive on many products and the translation for most items is dog shit.
Sixteen tons by Tennessee Ernie Ford is a great song. Forty years ago, when I was a kid, I worked for K-Mart. They would pay us in cash. The reason is employees would buy stuff before leaving the store.
Really wish we had Kmart back instead of Amazon
@@timcombs2730 You still have Wal-mart.
@@darylefleming1191wal Mart is trash compared to kmart
In my village in England, the landowner also ran the pub. He made the agricultural workers come to the pub to collect their wages. Obviously, they would then spend much of it on beer. This went on until the late 1960s
@@timcombs2730yeah...K-mart was just as soulless as Amazon. I worked at one in the late 80's. You felt like a slave there as well. A cog in the machine.
All lil' bro wanted was his dad's approval. Instead he got cussed out and is still smiling. That kid deserves better
He's a garbage dad but he does love his son in a weird way. Butters knows it too, that's why he's smiling.
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
The song is in reference to the coal mining industry and the towns they created around them to keep people working and the money flowing right back to them. The Ludlow Massacre is a horrific story on corporate America. Amazon would like nothing more to turn small city’s/towns into their own.
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
That Amazon clip was to me actually quite artistic ; it made a fair statement about modern work practices and rampant consumerism. Well done.
Everything about this episode was spot on, from Mr. Stotch's reaction to Butters to the portrayal of the Amazon work environment.
The thing I saw that wasn't accurate was that half the employees are mulit-gendered with kool-aid colored hair and lots of piercings
@@insertfakenamehere6507 half? Here in germany in NRW literally 3800 of the 4100 workers are literally Black african migrants of which most just speak english. Not kidding you at all its horrifying
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
The worst thing is Amazon drivers don't get Amazon prime; or any type of discount.
Or bathrooms.
You can get amazon prime like any other idiot if you sign up for it. This whole comment is retarded and you should be embarrassed and ashamed of yourself.
@@barnabyjones5161 they never said they can’t buy it but that there isn’t free discounts or free prime
@Maxx Marino good luck in the new job, hope it goes well!!
@@barnabyjones5161 Someone needs a Midol...
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.
Amazon Fullfillment was the most soul sucking job I've ever had... I would spend some days so sore to do the job at the speed they wanted and others I would be on the verge of tears for hours
Why would you even work there? Amazon blows
Maybe amazon feeds on souls... not money
The only thing worse is a Walmart distribution center where the food is kept. #soulSucking about sums it up.
@@toddprater14 why would anyone work there? Because I had no choice at the moment.
I enlisted in that hell hole and lasted two weeks. Worst place I ever worked, but I love to buy stuff online there.
This is accurate in almost every detail as someone who worked for amazon
Did you enjoy it or hated it?
I agree
True
Same
I worked there once for two months and left to go to school and now after 5 years they dont want me anyway because I wasn't working fast enough xD
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.
I worked at an Amazon wherehouse, and I can confirm... it's way worse than they depict it here.
If that's the way you spell warehouse you should count your lucky stars because you deserved worse.
I've worked in a "Fulfillment Centre" and rather liked it as a temporary job only.
I did get frisked by the "security gestapo" on too many occasions though - and that's the only aspect missing from the South Park depiction - which was my main reason for leaving at the time.
If prisoner roleplays are your thing, you'd love an Amazon job 👍
Frisked? Do they explain why they're frisking you?
Wow...NO ONE should ever be frisked unless there is probable cause of a crime good enough for a judge to sign a warrant for.
@Tournel Henry it's not a stupid and unwarranted rule. Unless your job requires the use of a phone it is a distraction that reduces productivity and concentration on the task at hand.
@@fuktiktok8611 and allows you to capture video or photographic evidence of the harrassment that sounds all too common at megacorp centres
@@bobsmoot5106 “come on jeff, GET EM”
Unbelievable. I`m watching South Park for 15 years now. It once aired on MTV here in Germany in my youth. It always was unique with a massive depth of pinpointing on trends within the society or covering current events. What I love is that Matt & Trey never lost their soul. They stayed humble within the early hypes and man they signed a $ 900 Million contract with viacom this year. Holy cow. Kids out there, this is a lesson for your life: Stick to what you believe in!
Its remarkable for a show to not lose its integrity after that long. South Park will certainly get the last laugh, long after the Simpsons and Family Guy have long lost their edge.
I love South Park, but you better believe Matt & Trey sold their souls. They critcize society yes, but South Park gets to decide the boundaries of what criticizing society should look like. They get to draw the borders of the box that reads 'edgy teens and what they believe in'. Believe you me they can go way, waaay deeper and uncover a whole lot more bad stuff, which they wouldn't ever or they'd have to say bye bye to that 900 mil contract and would've never gotten a first contract to begin with. :)
...and NEVER apologize for your comedy.
@@PiimS23 If they went deeper it would fail to make us laugh.
@@PiimS23 , what can be deeper? Kennedy being still alive and hiding? 😂
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.
Slavery was never abolished, it was upgraded and rebranded.
It's Walmart all over again. The employees get paid such crap money that they can only afford to shop at Walmart/Amazon which puts the money right back in the company's pocket.
Mine and all the ones around me are paying 17 an hour so....
But Walmart used to be bad I agree.
That's an insult to Walmart honestly, sure they paid dogshit, but at least it had competitors like Publix, Kroger, and Target. Now Amazon can swing its dick around because it knows that nobody can compete with it.
@@intelismynameandregretismy5541 And anyone who tries just gets drowned out or bought out
@@nukenade4623 and they also have lobbyists
Amazon near me pays 18 and hour
Those amongst the oldest of us will remember the old mill towns where everyone worked at the mill and the mill owned everything including your house and the corner (company) store and everything it sold back to you. We haven’t escaped the vicious cycle at all. Round and round.
Politicians, parties, and corporations use the same strategies of dominance they always have. They slap different names on things, the details can be a little different, but overall nothing has ever changed and if you look closely from one country to another, regardless of the overall system or status of the country, everything is pretty much the same. Things work as they always have from the beginning of civilization.
oh my god your right, history just repeats itself nothings changed
That’s what the song is about
@@PerfectlyFunctioningAI "The more things change, the more they stay the same." -Old French Proverb
It's getting back to it. Lot's of corporation are starting to buy land and newbuild properties just to rent them.
As someone who works at UPS, I know theirs exact feeling.
No one cares. Get back to work. Get my package.
Yeah, I worked for UPS 25 years ago..I feel for you Brother!!
Theirs exact feeling? Now I know why you work there. Good grief
My small town of approx. 6000 people has a major problem buying this disposable junk. I'm soon to be an ex postal employee here with 25+ years and finally saying screw it. It's not worth the mental and physical anguish anymore. I feel for all delivery companies.
i work at kohl’s warehouse but we have amazon section within our warehouse amazon is everywhere it’s crazy
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 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
@@PerfectlyFunctioningAI 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....
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.
I’ve worked at 2 facilities in Denver, this gave me Vietnam flash backs about how depressing it was
i'm sorry to hear that. I hope you don't work there any more and if you don't hope your new job is much better
Hope you are doing well now
What do you do now.
**** it all down.
its ok in a few years they will all be automated anyway
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.
I haven't heard that song in a long time. It feels very appropriate now.
I know. It seems crazy how this country abolished slavery, then abolished labor practices like the “company store” that approximated slavery, then created workplace safety and overtime regulations, but things change very little when you look at it like this.
Tennessee Ernie Ford was telling the future at the same time as he described the past.
@@ANDROLOMA Written by Merle Travis.
What's old is new again
@@umbasa01 Including my wife?
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
And this is what makes a great modern comedy/cartoon, doing things that really hit home for the viewer, and not caring about using the real names of companies when you want to talk about then negatively.
It also is trying to show how Amazon literally owns their employees, like indentured servants. Everything they use at home is Amazon too.. sounds like that 1984 book
@@NWLegacyChannel Yes, similar to how in some industries back in the day (mills and mines especially) you weren't paid in money but in vouchers/tokens to use at the companies shop.
Naturally the items in said shop, food Etc., were overpriced and so you ended up just making you masters even richer by being made to shop there and potentially getting yourself into debt because of the prices because you have to eat if you are doing a strenuous job and they knew that. Which, of course, is the subject of "Sixteen Tons".
@@NWLegacyChannel how is it like 1984 no one is forced to use Amazon stuff they all do it by choice. They don't even get discounts. It's trying to show how people are hypocrites and will complain about something but then use it when they need it.
This scene really doesnt show anything negative about Amazon other than its a job.
@@NWLegacyChannel Not literally. Figuratively.
This is one of the deepest sequences ever made, not only in South Park, but also animation history.
Every warehouse worker can relate to this.
I'm going back to college lol
damn i thought it would relate too petting zoo workers. no shit
💯
@@aricalifornia6272 Dr.
I used too work at a warehouse when i was in high school, thank god i quit it was miserable.
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.
Don't worry, I believe within five years the only people working in Amazon fulfillment centers will be technicians fixing robots.
That’s the long con. The job is so miserable so no one will bat an eye when everyone gets fired.
Yes, except everyone will be on universal income and told what job they will be doing based on algorithms.
It’ll be the Walmart of online retail. Reliable and cheap but there are other places to shop with better quality products. Not filled with Chinese knock offs
@@thedailyremedy968 like in futurama? I wouldn't really mind as long as I never have to work at a place like Amazon again
@@thedailyremedy968 But UBI will be considered Communism and will never pass. The masses will just be poor and desperate while they build more prisons to get all the desperate people when they eventually fuck up.
I worked at FedEx temporarily through the Christmas season. I would sing this song on repeat while loading boxes into the trucks. Absolutely soul crushing job
What I find truly sinister is the power and influence Amazon has amassed.
It's nothing compared to the power of UA-cam....
I don't like any of the multinational corporations. They have any loyalty to their countries or people.
And it all started in some dudes garage. Makes you think huh.
@@dragonspadeex it always starts in some dudes garage lmao
@@Eddycut or in some dude's RV
0:24
Notice how Butter's doesn't react to his dad's outburst.
I once heard a comedian describe comedy as truth without the pain. Watching this, I think there is still a lot of pain but damn good job nailing the narrative of it all SP!
That's an apt description.
I like how the writer tries to make them look like contractors that are doing hard, physical work, but they just work at Amazon moving cardboard 📦
Although there's no humor in this aside from what I hear it being deadly accurate, it DOES make you realize how much stuff a person including myself buys from Amazon and how much work goes into getting one useless nonsensical item to my house I'll probably reconsider it next time, good job Matt Stone and Trey Parker for continually adapting to make things relevant.
I bought a pair of Dude pajamas from Amazon. I got a rash, man.
Speak for yourself. I dont but anything from that shithole.
I don't use amazon
The goods are not the Good.
I have boycotted Amazon for years, easy to find other sellers, or manufacturers websites, other websites; heck, even order straight from China (aliexpress), just takes weeks to arrive, but worth not giving Amazon the money.
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
This song was perfect. One of the classics being used during this scene is one of the reasons South Park is the best.
Ok Trey.
South Park didn't exactly come up with it. They're spoofing the intro to Joe vs. the Volcano
There is nothing as soul crushing as working these monotonous wharehouse/factory jobs.
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.
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.
I worked for lots of companies, but working for Amazon was far the most disgusting and depressing job ever.
@Denam I've worked at a FC for Office supplies and my cousin and her wife work at an Amazon FC. I always said Amazon would be my last resort. However, my cousin has a daughter and bills to pay. I guess that answers your question, there's a lot of reasons but like this video shows, kids and other dependants are the reason people still work in these FC because they provide essential benefits.
@Denam it's not that they choose to work there it's what they end up with. Nobody and I mean Nobody wants to work at Amazon but the bills have to get paid.
@Denam Finding work today is the easiest it's ever been lol
@@2010drive it greatly depends where you’re living, actually. In my area in southern Arizona it’s become absolutely dead and nobody is hiring within 60 miles. But in the area of SoCal where my family lives, there’s tons of jobs.
Why’s that, exactly? Factory and mail jobs have always sucked ass, I don’t see why Amazon is so much worse. I get that they treated their workers like shit but didn’t they increase their pay rate and stuff because of all the bad publicity? Just curious. I have a fulfillment center not too far and have been tempted to apply.
Amazon fulfillment gets so much hate but it's no different then any other distribution job. Warehouse work is super depressing.
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.
This show is living, breathing ART. Steve Goodman is another lesser known Artist that covered this song & deserves recognition for his work. 🎶
What's the song called?
@@heinrichhenkel1428 16 tons by Tennessee Henry Ford
Tennessee Ernie Ford
Oh my god the fact that the quality control guy pushing that cart around is the only one smiling 🤣 idk why those guys are always so cheerful
I worked ICQA for the holiday season 2013 in the PHX5 fullfillment center...one of the most satisfying short-term jobs I've had.
I talked to my coworker who got promoted to QA he said he watches movies all day and does about only 2-3hrs of actual work a day. He said his superior he has no idea what he does, he goes out for "lunch" a lot. Lol Living the dream.
I felt like they were making 100k a year or something
The break room had me dying this shit is so accurate been at a fulfillment center for a month Jesus this is a grind
I used to work in a large bakery which mass produced hamburger buns and muffins for McDonald’s. Those fluorescent lights and large grey walls are completely accurate. The only difference was it was 110 inside during hot summer days and 12 hour shifts were the norm due to demand. There’s something about working inside a factory every day that takes your soul.
Not discounting your experience at all, but could you imagine a 1800s factory 🤯💀☠ I don't know how they did it. Or miners like the song was referencing. Miners back then would get paid in the company's currency that could only be spent in mining town trapping them there to work.
frank flores
Quit crying snowflake at least you had a job!
Klosterman's?
That's probably why the midwest produces so many serial kiIIers
@@ZepG ok boomer.
I really feel for the guys who work in these places because from what I've read elsewhere and of course the comments here the place is a hellhole. I know a lot of companies have horrible toxic environments which is why I do my best to treat any customer facing employees as nicely as I can. I worked in a really horrendous environment for a few years and I saw everything from mental breakdowns to rampant drug use. I even saw our CEO get punched out by someone who had just snapped. Probably why Jeff Bezos will never set foot in an amazon warehouse haha.
I have no idea what these people are talking about, I much prefer working here than customer service and I have not been treated horribly or yelled at once. Maybe it is just not difficult for me to make the desired rate or something, but most of the people I work with are kind and mind their own business. I knew what I was getting into when I signed up but the people in the comments seem to have had the absolute worst experience. Amazon hires so many people and you won’t hear about people liking their job online because most people who give an opinion on something complain about it since why would you feel the need to if you were doing fine
Bezos visits warehouses all the time. Or he did when he was still CEO.
@@youtubedislikebutton9316 I know of others who have a good experience. Theres a big sign on bonus but you have to be there like two three months and drug addicts often try to game it by goofing around until bonus time is up.
Notice how he keeps buying stuff online ? He's hooked... At the begining he says money is tight, so gotta work, than he spend all the money buying stuff online..hence being still tight... Vicious circle of endless debt. Spot on.
Well, you also have to remember South Park is a small town and I live in a small town too so I know what it's like to have limited options for shopping. We have five different dollar stores in my town and the nearest real city is an hour drive from my house.
Genius business model Amazon has!
That's why they used this song, it's about how the old coal mines operated. The "Company Store" was an onsite store that gouged workers for basic goods. Since there was nowhere else to spend their money, many worked in an indefinite loop of paying off company store credit.
@@andydomonkos8308 thanks for the éducation. In a way if i put your comment with the prévious one.. Amazon is doing the "old coal mine generals store" in a new century 2.0 High Tech way. Smart capitalism, like Ford who Saïd employés should buy the car they build...your employee are your number1 customer
Andy Domonkos 21st century indentured servitude. Brutal.
worked in amazon for 2 years. started as a seasonal employee in 2018 for $12.50. the pay bump raised when it hit october-november of 2018 to $15. did it for awhile while i did full time schooling. 3 days of 10 hour shifts, and moved up to management as an L3, to be promotable to L4. the only reason i think most stay aside from the paycheck every week would be the coworkers. met a lot of good friends from working @ the delivery station, not fulfillment center since it was more strict.
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 feel like no one is understanding the meaning of this episode. Amazon is forming a monopoly before our very eyes and we’re not doing shit about it
Well you're the IRS go tax the soul from them
oh just amazon? Blackrock, vanguard, statestreet. Enjoy!
Our generation grew up playing Monopoly the bored game so they view monopolies as a good thing! But they wreck havoc on small businesses which is the backbone of America!
@@irvinnorris7041 Ironic thing is Monopoly game itself was actually a critique of, well monopolies
That ending was pretty deep. He worked tirelessly to keep his son happy.
Everyone's on here bithing about Amazon but no one is talking about how Kenny's dad actualyy has a job for the first time in the entire series
I worked at Amazon in the UK for three months over Christmas. It was actually alright, but it's only alright if you're prepared to accept that you're gonna be working really hard throughout the night for ten hours doing an insanely repetitive task, and then repeating the whole thing again every night for the rest of the week. The managers were decent really laid back, we used headphones and got free food and bottles of water. I also got paid a £2000 bonus just for joining and the money was good anyway.
Was it a long term career choice, nah definitely not, but it was a decent place to do some graft to get some money together. I bet if you worked at the wrong factory though, where the managers were peices of shit, then it would be the worst job on the planet.
Britbongistan must have better labor laws than Seppostan.
Dang, I live in America and I didn't get a sign in bonus when they offered it.
@@sonicmiku3009 do you mean they never offered it or they offered it and never gave it you?
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.
This is one of the best scenes of a cartoon, or show, in recent memory. This was brilliantly written for several reasons. Loved it.
Amazing how South Park continues to deliver decades later.
I agree, terrifying mundane with strong dystopian vibes.
Pretty grim clip
They have limitless material to work with sadly.
So true. The guys are pushing 50 and still stay super up to date