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

Post by erikpukinskis » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 4:02 AM UTC

darpa_escapee wrote: post #44

anonytrary wrote: post #25

I don't think the ground workers at Amazon: 1. Care about tweeting about their company. 2. Talk like that. However, I think this could be real if: 1. Amazon has some incentive program that basically allows workers to take on a "marketing assignment" for some sort of bonus. If so, how is this different than contriving good reviews about your restaurant on Yelp? 2. Amazon has developed or is paying for third party soft…

> 2. Amazon has developed or is paying for third party software that lets their PR people quickly manage and create activity on multiple Twitter accounts from a central interface. I feel like this would be infinitely cheaper, more quantifiable and easier to set concrete milestones/targets for their campaigns than telling employees to tweet on Amazon's behalf and hoping for the best. All it takes is for one of these a…

Post by dlgeek » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 4:03 AM UTC

DmenshunlAnlsis wrote: post #17

tomnipotent wrote: post #16

This is standard social media PR - fail to see what the issue is. Brand ambassadors that promote the business have been common for a very long time. Nothing to see here.

Remember when we used to call them shills instead of “brand ambassadors?” Good times. Now we have this Brave New World PR doublespeak that reflects the dehumanizing nature of working on the floor at Amazon a bit too well.

Post by albedoa » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 4:05 AM UTC

darawk wrote: post #45

forapurpose wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> it sounds like they did fix them On what basis? All we have is PR talking points presented, deceptively, as genuine opinions of real employees. That doesn't seem like evidence.

If you're accusing them of lying, that's fine. But what you claimed was that these are just talking points "instead of" fixing the issues. So, they are claiming they fixed the issues. Are you claiming they are lying about that?

Post by anoncoward111 » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 4:10 AM UTC

jancsika wrote: post #51

FC_Associate wrote: post #22

These accounts certainly seem like they are being directed or encouraged by corporate. I know quite a few of the ambassadors at the warehouse where I work and I don't think any of them would post these kind of responses on Twitter without some kind of direction from above. Also, in case there is confusion with the term "ambassador", from my understanding this is mostly an internal title for associates who lead some t…

Someone above wrote this: > People get bathroom breaks, but those count against your rate, and people do sometimes get written up for taking them, although that's as much a matter of Amazon encouraging ruthlessness in management as anything. I know of one anecdotal story of a worker who was apparently written up for the time it took them to clean up after their own nosebleed. Does this ring true to you?

Post by greglindahl » Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 4:13 AM UTC

darawk wrote: post #53

darpa_escapee wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Plenty of untrue statements are asserted as fact in good faith and without intention to deceive. Asking for evidence is not the same thing as an accusation of dishonesty.

Um, what? These people are representing themselves as employees of Amazon, who work in these factories. Unless they are lying about that , then they are in a position to know. Therefore, if they are making an assertion and it is untrue, they are lying. This isn't that complicated.