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'Help me': Amazon worker's note hints at appalling work culture

'Help me': Amazon worker's note hints at appalling work culture

Recruitment agency PMP, who hire for Amazon UK distribution centres, is feared to be mistreating staff after a teenage Amazon customer found a note in her purchase saying: “Help me please, PMP staff are evil.”

The teenager found the note inside an advent calendar her parents had bought for her. Her mother then posted a picture of the note to Amazon on Facebook.

She wrote: “'She found this inside of her box and is worried amazon are running sweat shops..... I've told her it's probably a prank but can you just confirm this amazon'.”

She then told The Mirror: “This is quite worrying. It's the sort of thing you hear about happening in sweatshops in China.”

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