One Amazon driver has spoken up about some of the biggest frustrations of their job, from long hours on the road, to being forced to urinate into plastic bottles.
This is largely due to the fact that employees are given routes that take should roughly nine hours to complete, and they are given an extra hour on top of this each day in which to take breaks - but often, routes take more than nine hours.
The driver told Plymouth Live that as a result, drivers often skip their breaks so they don't fall behind, saying if they do not "make a delivery every two to three minutes", they fall behind schedule:
"This job has a massive strain on my mental health, because of this job and various incidents that have happened at it, I suffer heavily from depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and exhaustion, every day is a struggle, and it's just getting harder and harder."
The frustrated driver also spoke about 'incentives' which had been brought in previously, now potentially set to be taken away.
Plymouth Live understands that these incentives were brought in as a temporary measure - and it is not clear if those incentives will continue.
If the incentives are removed, this could leave the driver with up to 6,000 less throughout the year, the driver said - something which causes them a great deal of worry with regards to paying their bills.
Explaining what their day-to-day looks like, the miffed driver said: "We arrive to work up to 30 minutes early to conduct vehicle...
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