people used to just go cry in bathrooms but now your employer can surveille you https://t.co/fmqjDmOprb

— Jill S. (@outseide) May 27, 2021

"In one of its most dystopian moves yet, Amazon is introducing tiny 'Zen' booths, where overworked warehouse employees can momentarily escape a job so grueling that many workers say they don't have enough time to use the bathroom."

"Coffin-sized booths"https://t.co/GUyI5801L7

— Steven Greenhouse (@greenhousenyt) May 27, 2021

Who needs humane working conditions when you can sit in a claustrophobia-inducing "wellness" chamber for five minutes?https://t.co/6BIVLosEYd

— Joe Sanberg (@JosephNSanberg) May 27, 2021

They literally just invented the OMM 0000 booth from THX-1138. https://t.co/6sGIrGkOVd

— Rani Baker, Write Break To Address $400C-$400F ? (@destroyed4com4t) May 27, 2021

bad and naughty workers get put in The Mindfulness Box to atone for their crimes https://t.co/MHHMb0oMwD

— rax ‘preorder TACKY ?’ king (@RaxKingIsDead) May 27, 2021

Having a peaceful break in the mental health closet in the dead center of the factory floor where all my coworkers can visually observe that I'm having a bad mental health day & stare at the lower half of my body through the partially-windowed door https://t.co/gaVUUnZJ6Z

— Jenny Nicholson (@JennyENicholson) May 27, 2021

Amazon: Sorry we can't give you a bathroom to pee in so please use a bottle.

Also Amazon: Here is a mental health porta potty.https://t.co/I9UCAiRxDt

— Ryan Mac? (@RMac18) May 27, 2021

Amazon will literally do everything except improve working conditions by reducing its inhuman productivity demands https://t.co/ddBt1llCpA

— Edward Ongweso Jr (@bigblackjacobin) May 27, 2021

Given the fact that the source of stress and anxiety for many Amazon workers is the work environment itself, this is essentially like offering a first aid station to get bandages after your boss attacks you with a machete. https://t.co/WOAWJJ3v60

— Faith #GetVaccinated (@RoseOfWindsong) May 27, 2021

Danny Boyle's Sunshine is my favorite movie, I was fascinated by its meditation/earth room. But that was a sci-fi movie. This is something that's going up instead of addressing unsafe work conditions where people die on the job. This isn't the answer. https://t.co/bLAwCVU9aW

— Nicholas Slayton (@NSlayton) May 27, 2021

A lot of mindfulness rhetoric is anti worker and this was the natural endpoint. I thought the CIA meditation room was, but this is it https://t.co/7P3XawYAWh

— Mustard Account li'l ? listen to @onbeliefpod (@karengeier) May 27, 2021

In other media merger news, Amazon bought the Onion https://t.co/K7wsZdMJBl

— Patrick Sisson (@patrickcsisson) May 27, 2021

Yeah.....I had plenty of safe places to cry at work during grad school and that never actually....fixed why I was crying in the first place... https://t.co/m2arH83sr3

— Stephanie Melchor, PhD (@sjmelchor) May 27, 2021

Do they have jars in there to pee in? https://t.co/7hPou4Oq4m

— John Biggs (@johnbiggs) May 27, 2021

This box will probably mostly be used to get some privacy to pee in a bottle https://t.co/F0KQdg9FTY

— Wild Geerters (@classiclib3ral) May 27, 2021

i feel like livable wages & working conditions are better than a mobile Despair Closet https://t.co/k4stnC0Ws0

— Talia Lavin (@chick_in_kiev) May 27, 2021

Amazon: "how can we make it look like we care about employee happiness without actually raising wages?" https://t.co/UUO8gMYfri

— 梁 Saxena (@j__liang) May 27, 2021

The extent of media bad faith in talking about Amazon is pretty funny.

If you look at a hippy-dippy meditation room and see a coffin, that’s Bezos dressed up as Lex Luthor living rent free in your head. pic.twitter.com/PpwROWLyMI

— parker (@pt) May 27, 2021

When it comes time to name this period of American history I think "The Indistinguishable From Parody Era" would do a pretty good job capturing our present historical moment. https://t.co/eZOo7fowSy

— Mike Duncan (@mikeduncan) May 27, 2021

They send you to the booth for reprogramming if you have thoughts about joining a union. https://t.co/vpw6PwUqjo

— file under “anti-surveillance” (@hypervisible) May 27, 2021

love spending time in my company's depression box https://t.co/i1NHxNYfAz

— Ryan Broderick (@broderick) May 27, 2021

A tiny windowless booth in the middle of an Amazon warehouse does not seem very relaxing. https://t.co/QkQfM9IxeW

— Steve Kovach (@stevekovach) May 27, 2021

Amazon workers: Literally dying in stressful conditions.

Amazon: Have a phone booth with a mindfulness video for “wellness”!https://t.co/jnZI8cujAZ

— TalkPoverty.org (@TalkPoverty) May 27, 2021

How about increasing your warehouse employees' wages and allowing them bathroom breaks? I heard that making not enough money to eat and wearing diapers while at work may increase stress in people. https://t.co/C2WUGbynlB

— Jan-Albert Hootsen ???? (@jahootsen) May 27, 2021

spending my closely-monitored 5 minute smoke break in the Corporate Depression Booth while working for the richest man on the planet, that’s Wellness bay bee https://t.co/9oKvugu16T

— The PS1 startup sound, but as a person (@zenalbatross) May 27, 2021

OH NO THEY DIDN'T. NO NO NO NO NO. What reduces stress are fair wages, normal breaks, social time, and time to recharge, but not like A Clockwork Orange. This is batshit bonkers. https://t.co/X9gIoxBqHV

— Dr. S.A. Applin (@AnthroPunk) May 27, 2021

feeling down about your sprained ankle and lack of healthcare? go take 5 minutes in the depression box https://t.co/hFhsxwDgjA

— Tom Maxwell (@tomaxwell) May 27, 2021

Hey @amazonnews, why did you delete your tweet talking about this?

We never got to find out if workers are allowed to piss in it.https://t.co/SpPQENiqhR

— DatNoFact ↗ (@datnofact) May 28, 2021

Amazon has unveiled a “ZenBooth” for its overworked and overwhelmed warehouse employees https://t.co/l6zzXLMAEThttps://t.co/Sqy3vFGm0u

— Mikael Thalen (@MikaelThalen) May 27, 2021

Amazon has deleted the video showcasing its “ZenBooth” after widespread ridicule online https://t.co/l6zzXM4bwr

— Mikael Thalen (@MikaelThalen) May 28, 2021

"In the now-deleted Twitter video, the pod can be seen to have just enough room for a chair, small computer table against one wall, and a few small potted plants on shelves. The top panel was painted as a blue sky with clouds."

Amazon's wellness chambershttps://t.co/nYVkDqV3s6

— Sowmiya Ashok (@sowmiyashok) May 29, 2021

This really reminds me of THX 1138.https://t.co/6vKV9FlsWK

— Ken Westin (@kwestin) May 28, 2021