Amazon acknowledged on Friday that it has a rental problem.
The web giant has confessed that its delivery drivers have limited access to toilets, meaning that the accusations of urinating in bottles or elsewhere in public are likely to be true.
“We know that drivers can and have difficulty finding restrooms because of traffic or sometimes rural routes,” the online retail giant posted on its AboutAmazon portal. “And this has been especially the case during Covid, when many public restrooms have been closed.”
Admission comes next a spit on Twitter with Congressman Mark Pocan (D-Wisc.) last month, in which the congressman accused Amazon of being a union busting operation that “will make workers urinate in water bottles”
Amazon originally denied the complaint.
“You really don’t believe in this thing about peeing in bottles, do you?” the company responded on Twitter. “If that were true, no one would work for us.”
Amazon’s mea culpa admits that the original answer was wrong.
“It didn’t look at our large driver population and instead erroneously focused only on our call centers.”
But, the company added, “This is an age-old problem, which spans the entire industry and is not specific to Amazon.”
No word yet on how Amazon will solve the problem, other than reporting “[we] will look for solutions. “