Amazon exec fires back at John Oliver after HBO segment on warehouses: ‘He is wrong’

A worker sorts products into a box inside of an Amazon fulfillment center in Robbinsville, New Jersey, U.S., November 27, 2017. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

LOS ANGELES: Amazon isn’t amused by HBO’s Last Week Tonight With John Oliver most recent episode, which included a takedown of the ecommerce giant’s warehouses. 

Oliver, in the show’s June 30 broadcast, broadly decried the low pay and gruelling conditions of warehouse workers, and specifically called out “brutal” and “physically draining” working conditions at Amazon’s fulfilment centres – including citing workers who were denied bathroom breaks. “The more you look at Amazon, the more you realise its convenience comes with a real cost,” Oliver said in the programme.