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The Challenge of Working At Amazon
An anonymous reader writes: The NY Times has a lengthy exposé on the working conditions within Jeff Bezos's Amazon. "Even as the company tests delivery by drone and ways to restock toilet paper at the push of a bathroom button, it is conducting a little-known experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers, redrawing the boundaries of what is acceptable." Over 100 current and former employees were interviewed for the article, and they painted a picture of a demanding and punishing workplace that people tolerate in exchange for the ability to create. "In contrast to companies where declarations about their philosophy amount to vague platitudes, Amazon has rules that are part of its daily language and rituals, used in hiring, cited at meetings and quoted in food-truck lines at lunchtime. Some Amazonians say they teach them to their children." Of course, this attitude causes problems for people whose lives don't allow them extreme levels of effort: "The mother of the stillborn child soon left Amazon. 'I had just experienced the most devastating event in my life,' the woman recalled via email, only to be told her performance would be monitored 'to make sure my focus stayed on my job.'"
Anacondas?
"99 dead duelists of Dios on the wall. 99 dead duelists of Dios! Take one's ring, pass it around..."
"The Challenge of working for Pricks"
Fixed.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
Indeed. I remember you well, and we live daily with the shame you brought our organization. You were given one minor task, and could not redeem even that. Though it was a day of infamy, it could have been 1000 times greater and more harrowing to America if you had only followed the example of great martyrs Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi (peace be upon them!).
That you blame the warrior-poet Osama Bin Laden's "lack of planning" for your own incompetence is great heresy! We had doubts about recruiting a Lebanese, softened by Germany, but none of us could even have imagined such an off day as to be subdued by American civilians and lose one of our great weapons, the United Airlines Flight 93. Fortunately, the day was carried by your betters who are now in Paradise.
There will be no honor for the now-anonymous coward Ziad Jarrah, nor for his traitorous Jew-loving cousin Ali! May Allah curse your family for generations.
"They were pure niggers." – Noam Chomsky
read literally, it would mean "feeling like algae" (phykos/phycos=seaweed + pathos=feeling).
"They were pure niggers." – Noam Chomsky