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Derry Girls star Siobhán McSweeney gets snappy response after putting Amazon on blast-Sabrina Barr-Entertainment – Metro
The Derry Girls star was quick to share her frustration.
The Derry Girls star was quick to share her frustration (Picture: Jeff Spicer/Getty Images)
Siobhán McSweeney was not at all happy to see Amazon using her image for what was supposed to be a funny tweet… and the conglomerate was quick to respond.
On Monday August 21, the Derry Girls star spotted that the e-commerce company had taken a picture of her from a festival special of The Great British Bake Off and turned something that she said on the Channel 4 programme into a meme.
The tweet imagined how someone might react if they receive a notification that their Amazon parcel has been delivered to their home while they’re out at work.
‘Your Amazon parcel has been delivered,’ the tweet read, before adding: ‘Me at work…’ alongside a picture of Siobhán stating: ‘I might not go back in… I’m gonna go home actually,’ from when she was taking part in the baking competition, which can be streamed on Prime Video.
Just over 20 minutes after the tweet was posted, the actress fired back with frustration.
‘As if you’d let an employee leave their work to get a parcel. You won’t even leave them go for a pee. I don’t like that you are using my image [sic],’ the 43-year-old stated.
The stars of Derry Girls competed on a festive special (Picture: C4/Love Productions/Mark Bourdil/PA)
The actress called out Amazon on Twitter (Picture: Twitter/@siobhni)
The conglomerate was quick to respond (Picture: Twitter/@siobhni)
A mere 20 minutes or so later, the original post had been deleted.
‘Thank you @AmazonUK for deleting my image,’ Siobhán wrote, before adding: ‘And sort out your working conditions.’
Earlier this year, Amazon workers staged their first-ever strike in the UK in a dispute over pay and working conditions.
Around 300 members of staff in Coventry walked out after being offered a pay rise, which the GMB union said was worth a mere 50p-an-hour.
Stuart Richards, senior organiser of the union GMB said at the time: ‘They’re taking on one of the world’s biggest companies to fight for a decent standard of living. They should be rightly proud of themselves.’
A UK strike took place among Amazon employees earlier this year (Picture: Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
An Amazon spokesperson said: ‘We appreciate the great work our teams do throughout the year and we’re proud to offer competitive pay which starts at a minimum of between £10.50 and £11.45 per hour, depending on location.
‘This represents a 29% increase in the minimum hourly wage paid to Amazon employees since 2018.
‘Employees are also offered comprehensive benefits that are worth thousands more – including private medical insurance, life assurance, subsidised meals and an employee discount, to name a few.’
Last year, an undercover Amazon worker claimed that employees were threatened with disciplinaries if they called in sick or spent too long in the toilet.
Amazon fired back at the ‘tired narrative’ in a documentary (Picture: Daniel Berman/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
In the Channel 5 documentary Amazon: How Do They Really Do It?, author James Bloodworth said: ‘If you had a day off sick, you had a disciplinary. And if you received six of these you would lose your job. You were treated like a piece of data on a spreadsheet.’
In the documentary, Amazon denied Bloodworth’s claims and said his accusations were ‘sensationalised’.
An Amazon spokesperson also told Metro.co.uk: ‘James Bloodworth worked at Amazon for only nine days almost five years ago, with the sole purpose to create negative content for his book.
‘This is a tired narrative created to sell a book and despite his negative experience and views on the company, Mr Bloodworth found no issues selling the book on Amazon.’
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