What is this Twitter army of Amazon drones cheerfully defending warehouse work?

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Post by pinewurst » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 12:55 AM UTC

What is this Twitter army of Amazon drones cheerfully defending warehouse work?
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Post by walrus01 » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 2:23 AM UTC

Well that's not creepy at all. Tweets read like they're written by a PR agency. Never known a near-minimum-wage warehouse worker who answers tweets with turns of phrase like "On the contrary..."

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Post by saudioger » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 2:24 AM UTC

This is very clearly dirty.

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Post by beamatronic » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 2:25 AM UTC

walrus01 wrote: post #2

Well that's not creepy at all. Tweets read like they're written by a PR agency. Never known a near-minimum-wage warehouse worker who answers tweets with turns of phrase like "On the contrary..."

How could any professional in this day and age think that this could possibly work?

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Post by Hysterisis » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 2:26 AM UTC

For some reason I get a Hyperion vibe from these tweets.

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Post by dmead » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 2:28 AM UTC

This is really fascinating. I want to know about the culture of the person who authorized this. They seemed to be lacking essential cultural norms for north america.

Some questions I'd start asking are:

-Have they ever been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder or some type of high functioning autism?

-Are they from a third world country? Do they lack social norms we'd typically associate with people's attitudes about working in a factory?

-This this real life?

It's such a damaged artifact of modern de-industrialization. I really need to know why this is a thing...

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Post by zeusk » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 2:31 AM UTC

beamatronic wrote: post #4

walrus01 wrote: post #2

Well that's not creepy at all. Tweets read like they're written by a PR agency. Never known a near-minimum-wage warehouse worker who answers tweets with turns of phrase like "On the contrary..."

How could any professional in this day and age think that this could possibly work?

The cheapest bid agency that Amazon would hire, clearly.

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Post by slowmovintarget » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 2:33 AM UTC

zeusk wrote: post #7

beamatronic wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How could any professional in this day and age think that this could possibly work?

The cheapest bid agency that Amazon would hire, clearly.

That'd be chatbots, Bob.

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Post by rectang » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 2:35 AM UTC

walrus01 wrote: post #2

Well that's not creepy at all. Tweets read like they're written by a PR agency. Never known a near-minimum-wage warehouse worker who answers tweets with turns of phrase like "On the contrary..."

It's like they're all wearing the happy helmets from Ren and Stimpy's "Happy Happy Joy Joy".

Are there similar PR initiatives within Amazon engineering aimed at us?

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Post by downrightmike » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 2:35 AM UTC

Maybe they get a whole 5 minutepee break if they tweet when they clock in?