Amazon Workers Are Buying Pins Commemorating ‘Surviving’ Peak Season

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Amazon’s “grueling” peak season is finally over, and as the new year rolls in, one worker has decided to commemorate surviving it by making a Rick-and-Morty-themed pin of Amazon’s blob-shaped warehouse mascot named Peccy.The pin’s creator, who said they were an Amazon worker and did not want to be named due to concerns that they might lose their job, told Motherboard that the characters were based on the beginning of Season 2 Episode 6 of the show, in which Rick’s car breaks down and he and Morty have to go into a “microverse” that exists inside its battery to fix it.The microverse's inhabitants work to unwittingly produce power for Rick's car battery, which Morty describes as being like "slavery with extra steps."I looked at him and said, ‘I have just the thing to put tonight into perspective.’ We watched the beginning of that episode, and just started cracking up.”The pin's eBay description reads: "Are you a Rick and Morty fan?Motherboard has previously reported on how physically and mentally taxing peak is for Amazon workers, who have to work long days and almost 60-hour weeks."

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