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Amazon Warehouse Envoys Rally To Tweet Upbeat Comments About Working Conditions (seattletimes.com)
Amazon has been criticized for years by activists and labor unions for working conditions in its warehouses. So it caught the eye of a Seattle Times journalist when he saw several people, all of which created account recently, tweet positive things about their work experience at Amazon's warehouse. The report says: A group of more than a dozen Amazon Twitter users in the last two weeks started responding to critics of the company on the social media site, sharing upbeat tales of their working conditions and pay at Amazon's distribution network. Identified by first names and "Amazon FC Ambassador," they each opened a Twitter account this month, are unfailingly polite, and pepper emojis into conversations about the generosity of their benefits packages and job satisfaction at Amazon's fulfillment centers, the company's term for its sprawling warehouses.
[...] Amazon's Twitter legion, though small, appears to represent a new front in the company's effort to portray itself as a generous employer. The company has been criticized for years by activists and labor unions for working conditions in its warehouses, with media reports finding the company failed to provide air conditioning at some facilities during the summer, and set work quotas that could exceed employees' ability to keep up.
[...] Amazon's Twitter legion, though small, appears to represent a new front in the company's effort to portray itself as a generous employer. The company has been criticized for years by activists and labor unions for working conditions in its warehouses, with media reports finding the company failed to provide air conditioning at some facilities during the summer, and set work quotas that could exceed employees' ability to keep up.
I get a pee break for every retweet. Please retweet me, the chairs we soil come out of our paychecks. Please.
Shut down AWS to see if they're real people or not.
For pay, i piss myself and you!
A company that takes the time to blather false information for its bullshit purposes via underpaid goons? Be still my barely-beating diseased Republican heart!
A new low for Amazon.
bosses would make him AstroTurf. When your Boss asks you don't argue. They'll usually check that you did it. Heck, these days with cell phones they can watch you do it right then and there.
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A group of more than a dozen outsourced H1B Amazon Twitter users in the last two weeks started responding to critics of the company on the social media site.
Our company does this thing where they put employees pictures up around the building along with a quote from them saying why it's such a great place to work. It's like they're trying to sell us on the fact we're lucky to work here.
It's almost kind of...pathetic
Since when does paid comments enhance reputation?
It's cheaper to do this kind of stuff in virtual than in meatspace. Get worried when Takeshi Kovacs gets called in. There will be some "fulfillment" going on.
None of this is any of our business. Whether those people are happy or unhappy working there, the only things that might legitimately concern those of us without AMZN-stock, is: "are they there voluntarily?"
Until you can no longer legally quit your job for some reason, your not leaving is proof, the job-conditions are Ok.
Nothing to see here, move along.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Really should not need envoys to counter the complaints if indeed they were great working conditions. This is what you do when you donâ(TM)t care to fix anything, and instead would rather send out people to say everything is just great. But it does show why you should get a good education so you donâ(TM)t have to work for such money grabbers.
What if the working conditions really are ok?
I know that's crazy talk, but ... could happen?
As long as the tweets are about working on the astroturfing team I don't see what the problem is.
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God damn this Mi faggot loves false information almost as much as Superfaggot Kendall!
If the job is THAT crappy...QUIT! Go find another job somewhere else, where the working conditions are better. It's a WAREHOUSE job. Most of this outrage about the working conditions, is just a vain attempt by the unions, to garner favor, to unionize the entire Amazon system, which would in effect, kill it. Don't like a job? QUIT. Oh, what's that? You are in your late 20's or older, and the ONLY job you are "qualified" for is a warehouse job or minimum wage? Who's fault is that?
...Fulfillment Centers up beat *YOU* until you are fully filled up!
(T)he (O)ld (M)an
Keep it classy amazon. No one will ever suspect you're a shitty place to work now!
Amazon provided me with a company piss bottle so I can stop using random ones to avoid taking bathroom breaks!
They don't care. It's a job that has few requirements. Pampered techbros are always so shocked to see how the other half lives. Conditions in Amazon "fulfillment centers" or whatever are pretty much the same as any other warehouse in the region, maybe a little better even since they use ton of robots to make the work easier. I don't know who these people that are constantly trying to smear Amazon are, but it could be Waltons, could be Oracle, or could be the NY Times. When you're that successful in that many industries, you get a lot of people trying to take you down.
lol, looks like "Amy - Love my job and my Lord and Savior Jeff Bezos" already got her account suspended. https://twitter.com/fc_ambassa...
Happiness is the essence of working at an Amazon warehouse.
Everywhere I look, I see smiling faces and cheerful conversation.
Lovely work environment overall, great people all around.
Please consider an Amazon warehouse for your next job!
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
...Alex Jones...the legit AJ is banned...
As it seems, based on the info I can stil gather from the Web..
Amazon is a place where employees go to die..
Like the Hillsdale Motel up in the north.. "A place where hookers go to die, you can check in, but usually carried out by ParaMedics."
Now, on to more important things,
MsMash. Being that your a publisher here within this publication, woudl it be possible, plausible, or imperative that you learn how to communicate to your group, audience, or individuals this is directed to? /. now, please I beg you please, review this article (esp. the parts generated from msMash) is there some way possible to get someone competent to replace this individual? This is pathetic, and it only repells your constituency, and as a byproduct also reflects on this publication (which was once so great) a negative and disjointed prospectus..
Owners of
With that said, I am sure MY CAT could construct better a bettter dialog at this point..
Before al of your readers are GONE and /. is just a FART in the Wind. Please put a stop to it..
Please, please, please make this publication once again about "news for Nerds."
Thank you,
Me..
Arrogant bastard, thinks you're dumb enough to fall for something this blatant.
And enough of you are.
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Shut their twitter account down.
the guy next to me got crushed by a robot, he missed me, i'm still alive!
hey i got paid this week!
Hey at least he's not chaining the doors to cut down on pilferage. That's the other guy that does that.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
These are totally real users, and not Amazon bots.
- Amazon
it is only proof that people don't like starving and freezing to death
They can, but they may be opening themselves up for a defamation lawsuit. Most company's policies on references is only to verify employment, and not to give out performance evaluations.
https://employment.findlaw.com/hiring-process/is-a-former-employer-s-bad-reference-illegal-.html
I know a few people who work for Amazon in one of their warehouses. Every one of them loves working for Amazon. They believe that they get rewarded for working hard.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison
Years ago I had a landlord that was just the pits. He screwed me out of a security deposit, and tried to rent my apartment 4 months before I left moved out.
So I put up several online reviews of him. There were several other bad reviews with very similar stories of this guy (Green Rock Apartments in Minneapolis if it matters). Shortly after this, I see a large number of positive reviews all appear within a couple week!
No doubt he paid off his tenants to put up positive reviews of him. It's gotten to the point that online reviews are incredibly easily manipulated by businesses, to the point where they're becoming useless.
I rate the above review 3 out of 5 stars.
Can we seriously start guillotining the shitty libertardian people here? Anyone still posting on this place should be well past their fedora libertarian athiest phase unless they have some sort of prion disease eating holes in their brain.
Fuck "Job Creators" and this pseudo-slavery shit.
Because you 13 Russian twitter bots took down an election. So you figure Amazon using the same methodology would also be bad....or are you saying a corporation trying to sway public opinion is a good thing....
Sounds like the kind of thing the Maoist Chinese or Stalinist USSR would do.
"No, comrade, there is much borscht and vodka, and all is good! Do not trouble yourself with lies of capitalist plutocrat pig-dog lackeys who claim Glorious People's Republic is somehow inferior."
Alternative Right.
Your answer to people expressing libertarian tendencies is to cut off their head?
Which is somehow not as bad as slavery?
I guess that makes sense: the people you dislike get killed. Except that nonsense has been going on for thousands of years and hasn't yielded much yet.
Am I the only one who sees this going horribly, horribly wrong for Amazon?
Fake tweets along the lines of :
"Today my gruel had two raisins instead of none!"
"They've cut down the standard fifty lashes to only 40!".
"Now that we're using the Celsius temperature scale, I feel much more comfortable at 40 degrees!"
people forget that economies have verticality (for lack of a better word). Yeah, lots of those Amazon workers will be stuck in their shit jobs, but the shittiness makes them want to move up. A few will.
/.er in a good job you've suddenly got a _lot_ more competition for your good job.
Now, it's all well and good to celebrate their bootstrappiness (again, lack of a better word) but remember now that folks who might have been perfectly happy working in a warehouse are now struggling to get out. The ones that do move up the ladder, but that means more people applying for non-warehouse jobs. Supply/Demand says their presence in whatever field they just entered will lower wages in that field. One or two doesn't matter, but when nobody can make a living earning minimum wage it turns into millions.
It ripples up. They lower wages on the next tier of jobs and so people happy at that tier are forced to look for better paying work. And so on. This is why everybody has to have a college degree these days. It also means if you're a
Folks never really consider the consequences of an interconnected economy. They focus on the pluses and pretend the minuses don't exist for them...
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Bezos Buys Botfarm.
The rest is obvious, Circulate please, there's nothing to see here.
I could get more value, from a fart trapped in a box..
But seriously, here is the deal. ;)
You are killing this News-Spot.
Your superiors should be shocked,
you, should be taken and flogged.
why not go out and begin the path to the "most defined rectal muscles"
Yea, you figure out how that works.
cheers,
Amazon has been proven to run an influence campaign organized via an inauthentic group engaged in coordinated manipulation. /s
Thankfully our social media companies are watching this and will suspend, block or ban the accounts involved and will thus defend Western democracy from vicious manipulative schemes!
Thank Big ^H^H^H Amazon for raising the chocolate ration to 20 grams per week.
Amazon management has always bragged about the working conditions while the labourers claim they are blackmailed by their inability (or unwillingness) to leave town.
To hire a few flacks than to actually improve working conditions.
Libertarianism is the ultimate "fuck you, got mine" philosophy and needs to go away ASAP. If the original intent of the philosophy meant anything it has long since been lost to the kind of stupid people who adopt it as means of complaining about the government whenever it inconveniences them in any way shape or form by acting or NOT acting. It was never "get the government out of my life", it was "Get the government out of my life if it gets in my way at all, but also have it in my life if other people get in my way".
A good modern version of their argument is how they're free speech absolutists when it suits their needs. The government shouldn't be policing anything...unless I get kicked off of twitter or youtube, THEN it should police these private corporations because I'm mad now.