I've been wondering why this doesn't happen more often now that the crypto game has figured out international payments.
The smarmy answer would be "because it's working".
Amazon Investigates Employees Leaking Data for Bribes
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#12I've been wondering why this doesn't happen more often now that the crypto game has figured out international payments.
Probably because crypto is only useful insofar as it can be converted into useful fiat currencies, which means that it can be tracked.
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#13This principally is for Amazon China and not the US where despite years of complaints Amazon has done little to visibly counter the same effects and issues. To wit: "In exchange for payments ranging from roughly $80 to more than $2,000, brokers for Amazon employees in Shenzhen are offering internal sales metrics and reviewers’ email addresses, as well as a service to delete negative reviews and restore banned Amazon…
Shouldn't there just be a law stating that doing such things as deleting negative reviews is fraud?
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#14>The practice, which violates company policy, is particularly pronounced in China, according to some of these people, because the number of sellers there is skyrocketing. As well, Amazon employees in China have relatively small salaries, which emboldens them to take risks.
Sounds like Amazon is finding out the hard way that you need to pay for trust, not just skill.
When you pay the absolute bare minimum to your employees, coupled with other coercive practices, you drastically increase the chances they will steal.
There's a reason casino cage cashiers don't make minimum wage despite it being a low skill job, and it's not out of the goodness of their hearts.
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#15> The practice, which violates company policy, is particularly pronounced in China, according to some of these people, because the number of sellers there is skyrocketing. As well, Amazon employees in China have relatively small salaries, which emboldens them to take risks. Sounds like Amazon is finding out the hard way that you need to pay for trust , not just skill. When you pay the absolute bare minimum to your em…
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#16This principally is for Amazon China and not the US where despite years of complaints Amazon has done little to visibly counter the same effects and issues. To wit: "In exchange for payments ranging from roughly $80 to more than $2,000, brokers for Amazon employees in Shenzhen are offering internal sales metrics and reviewers’ email addresses, as well as a service to delete negative reviews and restore banned Amazon…
They will probably come down hard on someone selling sales metrics etc (assuming it is happening in the US), but probably leave the fake reviews etc alone. It is just business - anything that isn't a big enough problem (yet) for their bottom line, why would they care to change it? On the other hand, selling sales metrics etc is serious (Amazon almost never releases raw numbers, for example, sales of Kindle readers) enough for them to take action
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#17In a company approaching a million employees, someone is doing something illegal/unethical every day. At that scale it doesn’t say anything about the culture as you are observing the outer ranges of a distribution.
That’s why you build systems that don’t allow for abuse whenever possible. And when it’s not possible, you create an audit trail.
For example, I trust Google to make my individual search history difficult for employees to access, specific search results difficult to change, and confidential data difficult to access.
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#19That's how Costco survives and prospers in Amazon era. By not exposing customers to shady vendors, misleading metrics and questionable product rankings based on fake reviews.
Yes but Costco only has a specific set of things that I'm looking for, sometimes in too high quantities and at a price point that is not particularly amazing
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#20https://www.fullwsj.com/articles/amazon-investigates-employe...
That redirect site is priceless.