Amazon's Bizarre 'Apology' for Pee Scandal Just Makes It Worse

Amazon's Bizarre 'Apology' for Pee Scandal Just Makes It Worse

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On Friday, Amazon's PR team issued a response to the Wisconsin congressman it mocked for pointing out that overworked Amazon employees often pee in bottles on the job. The response, while apologizing for the company’s initial lie denying the practice, also made things much worse by continuing to misrepresent the reality of working at the online retail giant and attempting to take the focus off of Amazon. 

Amazon is currently facing a historic union campaign at a warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama that has drawn the attention of the nation. On Wednesday, after Amazon called itself "the Bernie Sanders of employers" as the Senator planned a trip to support workers, Rep. Mark Pocan made a tweet asking how the company could call itself a "progressive workplace" while union-busting and making its workers pee in bottles. In a reply, Amazon didn't deny the union-busting charge but said, "You don’t really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you? If that were true, nobody would work for us."